Rain, rain, Blue Sky">go away. Come again another day. . . With all that gloom, all the April Fool's jokes this past weekend were more welcome than usual. We're not sure--does it make us populists or hipster snobs to want these posts to be really, honest, pinky-swear true? There was plenty of humor to be found when South Park visited San Francisco, lovingly captured by Range Life. Check here for some real tales of danger......

Well, the cat's out of the bag about the new blog from Gawker Media. We've known for a while, but have been pretty good about keeping mum about it due to this SFist's work with Fleshbot. As PJ Corkery revealed Wednesday, it's going to be called Valleywag, and it's going to be helmed by the affable Nick Douglas, who's moving on from his post as editor at Blogebrity. Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held......

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......

First, a little politics. Nancy Pelosi calls for the declassification of her memo to the administration regarding secret surveillance of American citizens. Ann Harrison has an exhaustive first-person account on the recent medical marijuana dispensary raids. Executive Editor Chris Lopez softens the "Wiretap Scandal" headline at the Contra Costa Times. And Dan Gillmore is going non-profit and creating a Center for Citizen Journalism along with Cal Berkeley and Harvard, causing some to ask whither......

[Ed. Note: We let guest contributor Molly Go Lightly go ahead and use the first-person singular so that she could explain her very personal experiences at Burning Man over the years. Enjoy this final post in our series of perspectives on Burning Man.] The miles between Reno and the Black Rock Desert are the most excruciating of the seven-hour drive from San Francisco. Once we turn off Highway 34 and head toward the gate,......

SFist Ted, Weatherman, set a new standard for self-sacrifice that is going to be hard to top yesterday. On a cool evening at Jackson Park, SFist and friends took on Wired Magazine in a friendly game of softball. In the bottom of the first inning, on a short pop-up to center field, Ted came charging in and tried to make a diving catch. The ball dropped, but the inning ended when the runner was......

The Painted Rooms show we announce on the site yesterday seems to have been a smashing success -- there certainly were a lot of hipsters onhand, as well as some less hip people that looked in the buying mood (God bless them). We attended with ever-fashionable Molly Go Lightly, SFist Ted: Weatherman and Dogster Steven. The good? Kelly Tunstall's work and room were fan-f**king-tastic. We also loved the big cartoon acrylics of Isis Rodriguez.......