Hey, want to win tickets to see the Fray at Shoreline this Saturday? That's their sensitive pop ballad on the YouTube clip above, and Gomez and the SFist Krissy endorsed Eisley are opening! more ›

A three-minute wait isn't a big deal, at least not in a geological time-frame. But in transit, it can make or break a schedule. Take, for example, the 33 route this past Saturday, where a driver decided to park in the middle of the route and run some errands at Walgreen's. They're not supposed to do that, y'know. more ›

over on the Chronicle's Culture Blog. RIP, us! more ›

Wednesday will, to the best of its ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States! Tonight: We still miss our former Essefficist Shane and his promotion of all things March and Irish, so raise a flask of green beer in his honor at the Liberties tonight, where they're playing Irish Resistance Music to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. What better way to commemorate hunger than a big plate of shepherd's pie? Part of the New College's Crossroads Irish-American Festival. Thursday: Oooh, pretty letterpress. Take the 3:00 p.m. tour of local printers Arion Press and watch them actually and not metaphorically set some Movable Type. $7, reservations required at (415) 561-2548 or through the Grabhorn Institute. and Friday: Venture with us across the bay and go planetarium style at Oakland's Chabot Center Dome Fest 2006. The festival shows off the Chabot Center's HDTV 70s-style dome theater, and will feature trippy digital movies filmed specifically for the space. Extra trippy points -- beer and pizza will be served! Oaktown does it right! more ›

This is kind of a correction, kind of an apology, and kind of hilarious. Yesterday, while hunting up links for our Bay Area Blog Pulse, we were cruising Bloglines. The funny thing about RSS -- even if you've deleted something from your blog, once it's posted, it goes out over the wire. And apparently, if you're a MovableType user, once you've deleted something from your blog, the permalink doesn't necessarily die, either. So we saw this [NSFW]. Is it in bad taste? Yeah, pretty much. But it gave us a chuckle. more ›

Hey, everyone loves a good tool (unless you're from New England, in which case no one loves tools), and if you want to be a blogger, one of the best tools is Movable Type. Folks build blogs with it, folks use it as a simple content management system -- heck, folks even use it as a software design platform. Well, Movable Type is four years old now, and at version 3.2 is looking better than ever. more ›

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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. more ›

There's no love for free blogging software as Mr. Sarah Low Daly responds to our previous suggestions about the Chronicle-created controversy over his Board of Supes blog, where, as you may recall, in light of the "controversy" about his posting on the sfgov.org site, we suggested that he just publish his blog through blogger.com or Six Apart's Movable Type. Chris responds (to us! by name! fun!) in today's entry: "sorry on the blogger.com no go, but I believe that this content should be available on the City's website," and notes that the Chron article, in its zeal to mock, ignored the press conference he held about the Giants trying to get out of paying taxes on the ballpark. Daly is rumored to be contemplating a public boycott of the Chron based on the article now. (A boycott? But how will we read For Better Or For Worse?) We totally respect the blogger.com decision, Mr. Daly -- though we still think you're doing it because you don't want the commenters! We'd love to see your entries all laid out like a blog where you can scroll down and read 'em all at once! And while we've got you here -- pleeeze pleeeze pleeeze, some colorful anecdotes about life with Willie Brown, Gavin, and the other Supes? Gossip, we want gossip! more ›

We all know it -- bloggers really can be such bitches (buy your SFist t-shirt bearing said message right here right now!) -- so guess who's the City's newest entrant in the blogrolls? That's right -- our favorite hothead, Chris Daly! (Thanks to Usual Suspects for the link!) Like Jerry Brown, Daly's started off strong, lashing out at "downtown interests," the Chronicle, and linking to articles listing the number of times he's been mocked by the Chronicle. (Also, an awesome picture of C. Daly carrying books into his office.) Unlike typepadder Jerry, though, Daly's running his blog off the sfgov.org computer, which makes it look less like a blog and more like a newsletter -- meaning, among other things, that you can't leave comments. Aw, come on!! Chris, have you considered a switch to Movable Type? Especially with the Usual Suspects' other news that Bay Blogger alum Adriel Hampton's hanging up his Body Politic gig at the Ex for a job with the City Attorney's office (what? no!!), we'll definitely be putting the DalyBlog into our favorites folder. (Hey, do you think Daly will qualify for a SFPD press pass?) more ›

Call off the search engine parties. Rumors about the Essefficist's demise have been greatly smelly but largely unsubstantiated. Despite all attempts made by the beleaguered staff here at the Essefficist offices, none of us has been able to log in to Movable Type for the past six weeks, except for that one time, due to one or more of the following things: a fourteen month whirlwind trip to Paris (where we stayed in Hotel Henri IV for nine wonderful months), hard labor fixing up a beat-up old house in Bernal Heights, a profusion or two of holiday visitors from all over the country, or a lengthy and bruising attack by a sixty foot tall mutant moth from outer space named McGillicutty. But things are different now, or maybe just very similar to the way things were back in November, so we're back. With a vengeance. And covered in mutant moth dust. Or at least sheet rock dust. more ›

"There's room to grow," says Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz, gesturing happily to his company's brand spanking new office. Dot-com bust and recession be damned, Six Apart has had a smashing couple of years, and now they're moving their awesomequarters from San Mateo to a giant neato brick building South of Market. A few months back, we were lucky enough to attend Six Aparty, a giddy Movable Type mixer, and it warmed what cockles were left in our hearts to see that, hey, some tech startups are going strong, they're doing awesome big-time things, they're avoiding the kind of drama that's going on elsewhere, they know how to party, and, in general, they Know Where Their Towels Are. Rock. more ›