Ten-year-old Mireya Zapata was reported missing from her home in the Tenderloin District at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She was wearing a black jacket with gold lettering that either says, "South Park" or "South Pole," black jeans, red and black sneakers with a heart print, and she was carrying a pink backback. She has a small black freckle near her mouth. She is about 5 feet tall, weighing 75 pounds. Update: Recent reports say......

No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower to help shrink hard drives so that they fit into your iPods, or whatever -- is a Dell user. We'll go one step further by suggesting that Fert has dabbled in Linux use when he was young, too. Shame on you,......

Winona "Winnie" Tong comes to the Bay Area from the cool climes of beautiful Canada. Her profile reads like the history of personal computing which, frankly, it is (and, at least in the early years, mirrors our own experience -- except she started on an Apple and moved to WinTel, and we went vice-versa). Now, of course, it's Web 2.0, and instead of BBS systems and ICQ chat, she's got a blog, Creative Constipation.......

Oh man, this is cool on so many levels. First, you've got your crafter chic, and by a local blogger, no less. That's an awesome piece of handmade American merchandise. Conversation starter? Got it. Good cause? In spades. But the best part is that it's for sale!This Flying Spaghetti Monster plush toy will be on sale on ebay tonight. All proceeds up to $1000 will be matched and donated to the National Center for......

This New Year's, there'll be plenty to celebrate: for example, the right to own real estate as community property or as community property with the right of survivorship. Wait, what? Luckily, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equality California are here to spell it out for us: Starting on the first day of 2005, domestic partners (or as we like to call them, "couples") will enjoy a basketfull of new rights and responsibilities......

This January, registered California domestic partners will be entitled to most of the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. Our Family Coalition is putting on a free seminar this Saturday in Oakland to explain the new rules....