Dilbert artist and bay-area restaurateur Scott Adams poses a query to his readers: what can be done about the bone-crushing competition from chain restaurants? Just like Wal-mart, the Cheesecake Factory and PF Chang are putting the squeeze on locally-owned spots like his Stacey's Cafe in Pleasanton and Walnut Creek. So, to boost business, he's been trying to find a smart way to bring customers into his banquet halls, and he's turned to the internet for clever suggestions. more ›

For the last few days, we've been having a productive email-chat with friend-of-SFist Blarfiejandro, and we just wanted to run a few ideas past you, the clever SFist reader. Whaddya think about this: more ›

Total number of people in the pictures of this week's Swells: 58. more ›

So the good folks over at Double Fine released their new project, Majesco's Psychonauts. Originally to be distributed by a certain company in a certain suburb of a certain city north of here (we're not naming names) but allegedly dropped due to concerns about the quality of the gameplay, it has taken years of development and weathered repeated delays but finally landed on store shelves just last Tuesday. Says GamePro: more ›

SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just Like Us", thus fueling our dreams of quitting our day job and going on book tour. more ›

Dilbert moves into a new house. more ›