Yay! San Francisco's so kooky and whimsical and fun! Forgive us our cynicism, ladies and germs. Maybe we've been doing this too long. But the big, annual Valentine's Day pillow fight flash mob thing happened last night, and Justin Herman Plaza was busting out all over with floating feathers. We hope you had fun if you were there! And we'll try to reserve our *yawn*s and snide remarks for the next no pants flash mob. Oh wait, there was also one of those on Saturday night, or at least it was a no-pants party at The Knockout, which has also become an annual tradition. Anyway, yay! more ›

We didn't see a hundred skydivers, but T-Mobile completed their big mid-day product launch for their hopeful iPhone rival, the myTouch 3G, featuring planes, free-falling, freelance skydivers, colored smoke, mimes, stilt-walkers, BMXers, loud MCs, DJs, many balloons and much brouhaha at Justin Herman Plaza, Pier 39, and elsewhere. Employed people around Embarcadero Center were heard muttering things about the "down economy" and a spectacle the scale and expense of which we haven't really seen since, oh, before the Great Recession. Or maybe the dot-com era. Anyway, here are a few photos. More to come. more ›

We guess this gets filed under KFC-like re-brandings without totally throwing out the company name, but Radio Shack want us to start calling it "The Shack" while still holding onto that R-inside-a-circle logo of theirs. They're doing a kickoff event, or something, using two "fourteen-foot-tall laptops"--one in Times Square in New York and one in Justin Herman Plaza here in SF--on Thursday morning in which they'll be streaming live webcam images back and forth. Also, they promise "contests, bands, etc." No word on who these bands might be. more ›