First off, if you're one of crowd that heads to Austin each year for South by Southwest ("South by So What to the locals, apparently), the polls are still open to vote for what panels you'd like to see at the Interactive portion. So vote now, and we hope to see you there next spring. more ›

Bill Swerboski records a recent John Brown's Body show at the Warfield, in case you missed it. Eddie Codel munch on liquid-nitrogen cooled vittles prepared by Marc Powell at Dorkbot. And Jen Maiser just got back from the Eco-Farm Conference, and links to an article by an enterprising farmer-gardener in Watts of all places. more ›

Uh-oh, there's drama between The Daly and The Gavster once again -- GavvyGav brings his veto hammer, but Chris throws the recent reconcilliation speech back at him. Speaking of real estate, an Oakland developer wants to mix light industrial and residential in a new West Oakland construction. Google can't avoid politics anymore, turning away FBI requests for information on the one hand and defending their book search against angry publishers on the other. more ›

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 Service video? Same directors. more ›

Let's start by kicking out the jams. DJ Icewater mixes the sounds of Yay Area soul from past to present for a a Shout Magazine Shoutcast. What's old to Swerbo but new to us are hi-fi recordings of The Slip and Surprise Me Mr. Davis show at the Independent in November. Nicole Lee suggests some music podcasts, including a podcast by geek-rock legends They Might Be Giants. And topping the Yahoo search charts for 2005 are a mess of musicians, including our own Green Day at number five. more ›

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It all started on Thursday night when Andy Smith, celebrating his birthday at the Beauty Bar and wearing a bathrobe, asked if we were going to BarCamp. "Uh, sure," was the reply, not really knowing what we were signing up for. By Friday afternoon we had completely forgotten about it when we got an IM from Min Jung Kim telling us to get ready, as she was leaving for Palo Alto in an hour. So we checked out the Wiki, grabbed our tent, and prepared ourselves for, you know, whatever. Heck, it's not every day you get to pitch a tent in downtown Palo Alto. more ›

Niall Kennedy has been a netizen since there was such a thing. He's also maybe the first NCAA Champion we've ever met -- winning a national soccer title in 1997 with the UCLA Bruins. If you're on the national geek conference or local nerd meetup circuit, you're more than likely to run into him. Chances are, he'll be the one with the Technorati t-shirt on -- see if you can spot him in this photo. more ›

Gavin considering a run for governor? The SF Call closing its doors? Frankly, for us, it's harder to believe that SFist Derrick tossed cucumber and pasta with butter for a dish. Cooking cucumber? The mind boggles. more ›

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 tagged heading into second. more ›

Kevin Rose, the cutie-pie techie on TV who moved to LA when Tech TV became the G4 network, has wiggled out of his contract and is producing a new show for internet distribution, Systm, and also promises to start producing new episodes of The Broken. As long as forties and Ramzi are on hand, we're sure it'll be a success. [via BoingBoing] more ›

In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few of our own modifications) an SFist headlines dashboard widget for the new Mac OS 10.4, codenamed "Tiger", which was released to much nerdy fanfare just last week. Check out Niall Kennedy's coverage of the madness at the San Francisco Apple Store on release day. more ›

You read that headline right. The Albion Castle, a structure which dates to 1870 and was a brewery right up until prohibition, is being put on the market by it's owner in a real estate auction. For the last few years, it has served as a home, an event space, and the tech support headquarters of Laughing Squid -- who recently held their launch party for the new blog, where SFist fell in love with the building and its vast potential for artsy-fartsiness. more ›

Uttered by Anil Dash at a South by Southwest panel this year, SFist thought it was a great appraisal of the many, many social and interest groups that create their own social networks through blogs. Of course, you could always go Venn diagram crazy (SFist would like to think we're at the nexus of a bunch of different groups centered on The City), as the various groups blend. So your new dad-lefty political enthusiast-Buffy lover-who buys Apple-and lives in Los Angeles have on their blogroll a single mom-classic porn loving-lefty political enthusiast-WinTel-New York and a young punk-apathetic-Buffy lover-WinTel-in San Luis Obispo. Okay, we're not sure we understand that last sentence either. But it's deep, we swear. more ›

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Finally. A goddamn invitation to a real party with real f**king stars. Like Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders who were nice enough to give us Peter A.'s email to RSVP. These, friends, are stars. Love them. Gossip about them. But mostly, read them. more ›

We've crashed the SFMoma Tenth Anniversary. We've crashed an East Bay Rats party. Last Friday, we crashed the nerdiest party ever, and we loved it. Not just because of all the free goodness from Google. But because geeks love nerds, even if we can't understand what the hell they're talking about. more ›

Apple bowed to complaints that their Mac Mini add-ons were overpriced, dropping the cost of the Airport/Bluetooth, 1GB RAM and 80GB hard drive upgrades signifcantly [from Slashdot]. Hey, what's the point of having proprietary technology if you can't bilk people for the accessories? For those of you who thought what SFist thought when they saw the Mac Mini -- "Set-top Box" -- Engadget has a great how-to on turning your brick into a DVR and media hub for the house. more ›

With MSN Spaces and Blogger's assimilation into Google, SixApart had to make a move for marketshare, and this would sure be a great one. LiveJournal is a rich pool of relatively tech-naive but enthusiastic content generators ripe for the milking, and MoveableType doesn't crimp the anti-establishment cachet like Microsoft or Google might. Oohoooh, what a little V.C. can doohoooh... more ›