We thought you might like to know that SFist shot a photo of your protest sign on Saturday, which landed on the front page of Digg yesterday. As of this posting, it has gotten 5,563 Diggs and has been viewed 214,384 times on Flickr. Your sign brought up some great dialog. Our favorite comments: "I just had a sargasm." "Obamafont for the win." "Yes marriage is an institution ....it amazes me people actually want to......

We're both flattered an saddened by our witty betters at Gawker -- flattered that they stole our idea to spotlight comments (not that we're especially innovative in doing so, but still); a little saddened that theirs is already so much better in its execution. Depressing, yet we soldier on, because many of your thoughts deserve to be read a second time. Here's this week's top 5....

Folks, we gotta be straight with you -- this probably should have been the "Top 5 Douches of the Week," because there were a hell of a lot more memorably nasty comments than good ones. Even so, there were some gems this week, some high-level discussion where people brought the insight, the knowledge, or the funny--for everyone's betterment....

SFist interviews David and Edie Ichioka, makers of the documetnary "Murch" about film editor Walter Murch, now showing at the San Franicsco International Film festival ...

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Gosh, the Chron seems awfully enthralled with that Zodiac movie, doesn't it? Also, more on the Leno/Migden throwdown, quoting Paul Hogarth from Beyond Chron (who now supports Leno). Cover article: An awesome piece about mentally ill dogs. Who knew bordie collies got OCD? Meredith goes to the Presidio Social Club; SFist Ced gruffly concedes maybe she's been doing a good job lately. Let's Get Killed laments the new boring......

Theater about technology about theater, sexy performance art with a message and more theater about theater....

Yes, yes, we usually start with last week's winner, but we're so excited about getting voted best local blog by the Guardian that we're dispensing with convention and starting off with them. Boo yah! Wanna know the best thing about being best local blog? Our listing is on the same page as Gavin Newsom's, for "best local politician," and the rabidly non-Newsom SFBG does such a tooth-grindingly good job making lemonade out of lemons for......

What is it with all this meta-comic stuff we've been reading lately? Last week it was recycled romance-comics, then before that it was tales of comic-cons, and also an alternate universe where superheros run around in Hollywood like it's no big deal. We've got similar stuff this week with "Superior Showcase," by Nick Bertozzi, Mike Dawson, Dean Trippe, and John Campbell. The book features three fun vignettes: one features a "Super Mart" with super-powered staff......

SFist reviews Voxtrot and Kiss Me Deadly at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco...

Eric Rice posts the transcript of Lawrence Lessig's recent chat in Second Life, which could just be the most meta-geek thing ever. Niall Kennedy, Caterina Fake and Josh Kinberg build an ego-bot for bloggers, Whuffie Tracker, in just a few hours. Sex.com sells for $14 million -- after the legal fees, there might just be enough to take the family to In-N-Out. And wondered why that new Apple ad looked like an old Postal......

We are living vicariously this week, but those who do get to eat belong to four different media, in some kind of meta-food marathon. On the menu: a newspaper article, a magazine, a book, and a TV show. The book first: Peter Mayle and Gérard Auzet's "Confessions of a French Baker." The title is saucy, but do not judge the book by it, it will teach you no dirty secrets about French boulangers. What it will teach you is how to make your own baguette. We haven't tried any of the recipes in it, we would have had to source the right flour and some baker yeast and such, but for those into this kind of things, we can only recommend this little cute fascicule. Peter Mayle weaves a few introductory chapters with the light and elegant prose which made him famous, and the book them moves onto recipes for all kind of breads: baguette, pain de campagne, olive bread, and so on. Gérard Auzet is an actual baker, so the book is kneaded by good hands. There is no link to SF, besides Peter Mayle visiting the city last week, but we are French and we certainly miss the bread such as the one described in there....

In a striking turn of events, it seems that there are, in fact, paying jobs over at Bayosphere (shhhh, don't let the staff here at SFist know!). Here's the job description: The right person deeply understands customer service as well or better than they understand how to attract attention to themselves. They can deal with newbie questions, delicate community issues, start-up conditions, and minor, local-celebrity status. And, they will still think this still sounds......

SFist reviews Architecture in Helsinki...

We've been reading up a storm this week, as several books we've been pining for on our However, our blissfully empty weekend is almost within reach, which means a trip to one of our online reserve list came through for us. What books are you eagerly awaiting, either from the library or to purchase at one of our fine local independent bookstores? Let us know in the comments. SFist Jer is reading John Barth's......

As the already treacherous social networking landscape gets even trickier with the launch of social networking site to end all social networking sites Yahoo 360, contributing SFist Paolo offers these tips to help you socially network like there's no tomorrow. Image is everything. It's not a matter of looking like the most intelligent, cultured, and radical person who ever walked the face of the Earth, it's just a matter of looking like you are......

SFist is all about the free, which is why we love to reserve books at the San Francisco Public library. We're even scouting out the City for free copies of this book, so much are we fans of the free. However, if we can't find one of the copies stashed around EssEff, we'll pick up a copy at one of our fine local independent bookstores. SFist Rain reports: "Thanks to my birthday I got an......

San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office- spray painted on the wall is the statement “Smash the State.” The graffiti was sprayed on by noted graffiti artist Barry McGee and can be seen right over Matt’s desk. One final swipe at Gonzalez’s rival, Mayor Wonderboy, who has been conducting......

Even if this weren't Halloween weekend, we'd be a litle bit psyched about seeing Saw, a violent and gory thriller starring The Dread Pirate Roberts and Detective Murtaugh. Meta comedy aside, this movie about genius serial killers and hand saws looks seriously creepy. Then again, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (interestingly enough, the original is also referred to as "Saw" by ardent fans) also had a kick-a** trailer, and we all know how......

In this special edition, we offer a cookbook review. Regular column after the jump. We're certainly not the types to indulge in the latest tome of unmanageable recipes from some celebrity chef. But the one man who we would trust to write a good celebrity cookbook has gone and done just that. That's right, from the man who brought you the coke-and-booze-and-sex-and-coke tell-all Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, has made a study of his classic french......