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ad:tech San Francisco landed here yesterday and is currently underway at Moscone Center until Thursday. We've acquired access to the exhibition hall and had a chance to briefly peruse the delightful offerings of the Internet advertisement world:

Good Lord, what blog isn't over at Moscone Center today, getting moist over Steve Jobs? (We would be there, too, but it's positively glacial outside today. Burr.) Anyway, for those of you who care, here are some choice live-bloggy links to today to Macworld Expo 2008. Today, in case you're living under a rock (or have a life) is Steve Jobs keynote speech, and he just announced the holy presence of the new MacBook Air, "the world’s thinnest notebook." What, no iUnicorn? We have been hoping to see for quite some time. Maybe next year.

at 3 p.m. Also, Alyssa Milano will be hawking her baseball-themed jewelry around 1 p.m. Oh, Alyssa Milano, we really hoped you'd stay with Carl Pavano. $22 at the Moscone Center West (4th and Howard, across from the Metreon).

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A photo of Phil Ting's press conference about the S.F. Solar Task Force.

We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out these amazing pictures that they're taking!

A new column devoted to the less-than-celebrated world of tech mixers, drinkups, LAN parties and other events for nerds and by nerds. Nothing says that computer junkies have to be anti-social!

Remember that totally awesome scene in where the Witch King was leaving Cirith Ungol with the Orc army and Frodo started freaking out and then that big shaft of light shot out of the building as the people of Minas Tirith looked on with a dread that something great and terrible was coming?

The MacWorld Expo is going on all week at Moscone Center, and there's been all kinds of speculation going on about the internets concerning what Steve Jobs was going to unveil at his opening keynote address this morning. Rumors ranged from the "definite" unveiling of a new Mac mini-based home media PC (and we chomped on that rumor like a bass), to the "unlikely" announcement of a new Apple-branded HDTV.

In case you missed the GameSpot Annual Marketing Event at Moscone Center last week (also known as the "Games and Music Experience"), Lore Sjöberg has a write-up at Wired to tell you what you didn't experience. (The SFist Tech Labs staff didn't go, as we were afraid that 50 Cent would be there, and let's just say there's some bad blood between us.)

Saturday: We're going to see the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to see Campo Santo’s is a live soundscape by Tommy Shepherd and Scheherazade Stone, and an art installation/set by Victor Cartagena provide a moving counterpoint for powerful language and visceral performances in this play based on true-life events. Featuring astounding performances by Sean San José along with Shepherd and Stone, and directed by Erika Chong Shuch, Domino is a celebration of a life and a meditation on missing people." It plays tonight and tomorrow at 8 PM, get your tickets here.

Well, Apple is rumored to be anouncing the iPod phone by Motorola at the Moscone Center on the 7th. 100 songs, service through Cingular are the rumored deets. In the meantime, the music business, not happy with the $350 million they've pocketed from the iTunes store since 2003, want a tiered pricing scheme, with new releases bumped to $1.49 -- which would be a great way to send people back to filesharing for the latest.

SFist loves it when punk kids get embraced by advanced-degree wielding curators, independently wealthy socialites and other high-art hangers-on. So when Robin tipped us to Thursday's "Video Game Art Show" we had to check it out. With the Game Developer's Conference at the Moscone Center, StartSOMA probably figured that they might actually have some interested buyers who could afford to decorate their walls with something besides a few plasma screens for Halo LAN parties.

Something's coming to San Francisco this weekend, something so big, and so exciting, that we couldn't contain our enthusiasm and had to write about it over a month ago. But now the waiting is over, and we can dust off our Princess Leia buns and our Spock ears (which can stand in for elvin ears in a pinch) and join the huddled masses that are just as dorky as us.

On an otherwise banner day for journalism here on SFist, we thought that we would get our lean, fit body out from behind the old desk and head down to the Moscone Center for Jason Shellen's Macworld Blogger Lunch. After all, Steve Jobs had appeared earlier in the day in his trademark turtleneck (could someone buy that dude a suit already?) to announce all sorts of cool s**t from Apple -- a preview of Tiger, the new OS; a demo of iLife 2005; the cheapest and smallest Macintosh desktop ever, the Mac Mini; and the piece de resistance, the new iPod Shuffle (terrible name, hott product).

But even a tacit endorsement by the POTUS isn't enough to quell the hype surrounding Steve Job's keynote address and product announcements tomorrow. Also via Engadget, two eagle-eyed Italians on a sacred pilgrimmage to the Moscone Center may have have spotted billboards being put up announcing the new flash-based iPod that everyone says isn't going to happen. Also in the realm of possible hoaxes, this may or may not be video of the new headless iMac/Media Center from Apple (via Cult of Mac). So. Much. Unverifiable. Buzz. All the more reason to attend the MacWorld Blogger lunch.

It's January, which means it's time for the long awaited Macworld SF. Nothing like gadgets and booth babes to get the geek blood flowing. If you haven't had your fee paid by your publisher or employer, or don't have the money to spend for yourself, then you can at least join Jason Shellen, Biz Stone and Eric Case for lunch at Yerba Buena Gardens. The invite from shellen dot com:

As Boston takes stock after the shock of the recent Democratic National Convention and New York braces for impact in preparation for the soon-to-hit RNC, EssEffist recalls that twenty years ago it was San Francisco's turn. The DNC descended into the depths the still young Moscone Center July 16 to 19, 1984, bringing with it such luminaries as Presidential nominee Walter Mondale, Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and New York State Governor Mario Cuomo. If you know what's good for you, you'll listen to Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" speech. If you know what's really good for you, you'll listen to Cuomo's "A Tale of Two Cities" keynote address.