Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there. more ›

MySpace implicated in crime again! Two bored teens in Novato were arrested for setting off firebombs in a vacant air hangar. They were busted because they had posted footage of the explosions on their MySpace pages. Other MySpace crimes include three kids busted in Nevada for posting footage of themselves defacing someone's car, and in San Bernardino, the authorities caught a 48-year-old guy who was sending passionate emails to a fake MySpace page three guys set up as a prank. Ha! We all know rock beats scissors and paper beats rock, but who knew knife beat machete? A man camping in La Honda attacked a campground official with a machete when he was asked to leave the grounds -- but the official struck back with a small knife, and a Beat It style fight ensued (we're speculating here about the Beat It, before you angry commenters attack; "it doesn't say either of them had on a red leather jacket.") The knife guy got in some slices to the machete guy's face, and it turned out Mr. Machete had an outstanding warrant for auto theft in Wyoming. And they had to call in the mechanical robot when security guards at Intel saw someone slip a plastic briefcase underneath an employee's car. No bomb, but no one knows what was in the briefcase or why someone put it underneath the car in the first place. more ›

Sasha dishes the news about TechConnect -- RFP deadline went by without so much as a press conference. Big news is that Google and Earthlink have teamed up, and that Houston's recent WiFi RFP was made public (The City threatened to sue when theirs was leaked). Francisco De Costa claims a victory after the public forum on Bayview redevelopment. San Jose Inside's Single Gal takes a look at the six folks who want Ron Gonzalez' job. And Pepper offers some analysis on the reports that Herr Governator's rising in the polls again. more ›

While book signings themselves are not that big of an event in and of themselves, they can be depending on who is doing all the signing. Like ex-Presidents. Or skanky “celebrities.” And especially reclusive, iconoclastic writers. It’s an even bigger deal if said reclusive iconoclastic writer isn’t necessarily a writer per se, but a reclusive iconoclastic rock god. Tomorrow, the Bard of La Honda, the Godfather of Grunge, the man who can somehow still make Crosby, Stills, and Nash seem cool- Neil Young- appears at the Booksmith at Haight to sign copies of his new book, Greendale. Greendale, illustrated by James Mazzeo (who will also appear), is a book based on the CD that became a multi-media stage performance that became movie that became yet one more thing that made critics and fans alike go “what the hell is he doing now?” more ›