Piff! Pow! Zwap! On Valentine's Day at precisely 6 p.m. at Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco will play host to its third annual public pillow fight. And they're looking for a few good men and women. The rules of the fight are as follows: 1) Tell everyone you know about Pillow Fight! 2) Tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about Pillow Fight!!! 3) Nothing in your pillow but pillow. 4) Don’t hit anyone with out a......

Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid came across these adorable videos, which he dedicates to his "Super Mario Brothers obsessed" nephews, that bring together two important turning points from our youth: Legos and Super Mario Brothers. Check out more levels here. Each of them are worthy time wasters. Enjoy!......

Laughing Squid’s Last Minute Unholiday Party: Scott Beale and the gang will be having a most splendid post- and un-holiday party/experiment with social media. Although LS will be "providing some beer and buying pizza, but please feel free to bring some more beer, wine, leftover holiday food, etc." The mood is low-key and geek-filled, and we mean that in the best possible way. Starts at 7 p.m. at Citizen Space. Ben-Hur (1959): Not only......

-- Perverts. [ASD] -- San Francisco to go solar. [Curbed] -- SUV rampage remembered. [SFGate] -- Bernal Heights robbers? Oh noes! [The Snitch] -- The McKesson Corporation sued. Also, SFBG's got the love for the Examiner? [SFBG] -- The handitards over at Best Buy apologize for sending Scott Beale an inane cease & desist missive. Classic stuff, folks. [Laughing Squid] -- Blueprint -- it's not a good thing. (Eh.) [ValleyWag]......

Screw the cardboard tube battle, this sounds like something that needs to happen every night. This evening at 5 p.m. sharp, head on down to the tourist epicenter of San Francisco, the Powell Cable Car turnaround, for what will be a massive pie fight. According to Mr. Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid, SF0 player Herbie Hatman is organizing a formal-attire pie fight (think Mabel Normand, Keystone Cops) which will get all up in......

Remember this game? Well, we don't remember the game's competitive aspects -- does anyone? -- but we remember setting up its trap over and over and over until it finally broke. And over at Laughing Squid, Scott Beale caught a life-sized version of the game at the Maker Faire 2007. (Yes, any fair ending with an "e" is cause for great alarm, but this Mouse Trap overrides that fear.)......

[NSFW] -- Crank (prank?) calls to 911. [Chron] -- Wildfire still wild -- 7,000+ acres wild. [CBS5, San Jose Merc] -- Death, death, death, death... [Chron, Examiner] -- Fines to go up for carpool cheaters. Good. [Oakland Tribune] -- Scott Beale goes to this strange place called Fisherman’s Wharf and to San Francisco's only In-N-Out. Also: really, Snyder family? 524390645 Quizno's Subs just opened up on my block, so why can't you? [Laughing Squid]......

A link to a funny video re: the inadvisability of allowing comments in a business situation. ...

Last night's innovative Chicken John/Josh Wolf Mayoral debate brought in "a dozen or so citizens," artists, and political fetishists. Even though it was on a Sunday night, anyone who cares about politics, SF, and progressiveness shouldn't have missed it. Naturally, we couldn't make it. Big Brother was on, and we're concerned about Jen and the near-physically/sexually-violent way that men in the Big Brother house have been treating her. Also, it was nomination night. But......

-- Ed Jew preliminary. [Chron] -- SFPD station receives a car holding a dead body inside. [Examiner] -- Bring out your garbage cans! [KRON4] -- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon comes to SF. [Washington Post] -- Firefighters mourned. [Chron] -- Copyright fingerprinting at YouTube? [Inside Bay Area] -- Scott Beale's got iFilm's coverage of Comic-Con 2007, Henry Rollins' earnestness. [Laughing Squid] -- Nicole Ritchie gets four days in the clink. Boo. [Chron] -- We're (maybe,......

-- Temporary victory is ours: Giants 8, Brewers 0. [Chron, Examiner] -- Four people -- Contra Costa County Fire Protection Captain Matt Burton, Fire Engineer Scott Desmond, Delbert Moore, and Gayle Moore -- die in early morning San Pablo fire. [Chron] -- Farewell, Pete. [KGO] -- Bizarre staging of Taming of the Shrew gets lots of love from Chloe Veltmen. [ASD] -- Scott Beale snaps shots from today's blogger-littered WordCamp 2007. [Laughing Squid] Image: Michael......

The cherished Scott Beale brought to our attention the following bit of, well, awesomeness. We know, we know -- we’re no longer supposed to fall for ultra-annoying viral marketing bullshit. And producer JJ Abrams finally lost us. (Heh. Yeah. Sorry.) And, no, we have yet to see The Transformers, for which this clip is said film's trailer. But we're tired of doing the dance, so we give in, modern marketing scheme. And after several viewings,......

Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late. Who's Chicken John? He's a local countercultural legend! He's a Burning Man guy, the former owner of the Odeon Bar, and he hosts Ask Dr. Hal on Pirate Cat Radio. We had absolutely no idea! (Steve Jones at the Guardian knew,......

The entries are coming in fast and furious on the Photoshop Frank Chu's Sign challenge! Here's our top two so far -- send yours in too! And while we have you here, we might as well give you some news updates too. Oh No, Ed Jew!: Turns out the money that the Quicklys paid off to Tapioca Ed was marked bills from the FBI. The whole money swap was probably bugged too. MOOOOOM!: Apparently......

Here's some hints. Photoshopped picture by Tim Daw -- thanks to the reader who forwarded it to us! If you want to Photoshop some messages onto Frank Chu's sign too, we'd love to see 'em! Original picture by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid, and the link in the picture itself goes back to Laughing Squid for letting us use the picture in the first place! -- thanks for letting us know, Scott!......

Locally, the big news was the second best blog party last Friday thrown by TechCrunch down in Menlo Park. Scott Beale was commissioned to take the photos, including the one above featuring an uneasy handshake between Valleywag's Nick Douglas (left) and his favorite whipping boy, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Nick had been bumped off the exclusive invite list, but Michel must have relented. If he had been dis-invited, apparently crashing the party was not an......

The good news is that the first battle in the legal fight against the NSA's wiretapping program has been won by everyone who doesn't work for the NSA. The bad news is that internet-enabled vigilante mobs could be the next big fad here in the States. Eh, we're too busy applying a new Dasani-branded profile treatment to our MySpace profile and checking out some of the videos. Damnit, we were totally going to lead off......

Man, here we are all nostalgic listening to Endtroducing, and the blogosphere pays us back with some serious synchronicity -- all sorts of funky-fresh music! We're totally drooling over this new Soul Sides compilation from O-Dub, on vinyl no less! Kid Kameleon posts not one, not two, but three mixes from three different DJs, including one of his own. Mesh SF presents a "motherlode" of the 40oz. show. And while this is kinda old,......

Rarely a day late, always a few dollars short. Michael Strickland gets the headline of the day, with "Satanic Love Cult at City Hall." Leila at Hypnagogica spends Valentine's Day beating people with pillows and thinking about love. Scott Beale was there taking photos. Jane Kim spends it worried about Eddy Zheng's deportation hearing. Lots and lots going on in urban development. A major landlord in Japantown wants to sell. Even more troubling are......

We'd like to take a moment to break from our usual schedule of links to Gavin Newsom gossip, Web 2.0 snark and other Frisco-centric blog boosterism to highlight the plight of Survival Research Labs. Apparently a quarter-century of creating literally bleeding-edge art from the electro-mechanical detritus of the modern world isn't enough to keep the bulldozers at bay. That's right, having already been blacklisted by the San Francisco Fire Department from ever performing in......

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......

We'll start with the 2005 year-in-reviews. Robert Haaland says 2005 "was a great year to be a queer union organizer." Om Malik points out that the number of broadband connections grew 35% last year. And Jenguin literally looks back at 2005 with a selection of her photos. As for the actual festivities, Beth Spotswood dons a cocktail dress and braves a fancy party. Eric Meyerson laments the stormy state of affairs which greeted 2006.......

On an irregular holiday schedule... We'll be keeping a close eye on new blog Oaky Ton, devoted to all things Oaksterdam. Speaking of Smokeland, after getting raided by the DEA, HopeNet is robbed the next day, and blame the feds for crashing through the door even though they had a key. Guest blogger Corey recaps the recent Warriors loss to the Pistons as though it were an IMDB entry. And M. C- shares a......

Kim Knox at Left in SF provides a handy listing of schools on the block for mergers and closures, and the board has decided to shut dow n the elementary school on Treasure Island. Looks like The City won't be able to provide any sort of internet connection to the public at Monday's scheduled public hearing on TechConnect. Maybe one of you has a brand new 3G modem? iPod jacking -- it's like 'dogging,'......

Susan Mernit points to a kerfuffle in the world of Podcasting -- Adam Curry caught anonymously editing the Podcasting entry on Wikipedia; Curry responds, says he was struggling with the Wiki editing format. Speaking of Adam Curry (who's also been accused of cybersquatting in the past), Joi Ito explains the business of "parked domain monetization" and why you can't get the domain name you really want. And in a nice segue piece, Jessie Johnson......

Who knew beer and keyboards don't mix? Making her case for membership, Beth Spotswood tells the world that Chandler Bing was sh*tfaced at Otis. With scoops like that, we'll see what we can do to get you in. Speaking of scoops, the Gavster was totally right -- Tucker, Chan and Ratner to make Rush Hour III. And thanks to all the hard work covering the Federline-Spears romance from K-Fed's hometown in the 'No, Jarah......

Niall Kennedy finds a San Jose couple who had a Web 2.0 wedding. Let's all wish them luck, because a Web 2.0 divorce could get ugly. If you're still looking for a man in San Jose, San Jose Inside's Single Gal suggests a trip to the Shark Tank. Beth Spotswood knows who she wants, but just misses The Gavster at Medjool. In local events, you had plenty to choose from. Mike Lin dropped by......

In media news, looks like Google got caught with their Craigslist-killer pants down over the weekend when their new database system was accidentally revealed to the public. Their shiny, baggy, flowing pants. Tom Foremski talks to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster about all things classified ad. These are probably some of the things talked about a recent Scoble and Winer 'geek dinner' in Berkeley that Scott Beale snapped some pics of. But the buzz around......

Are you kidding? Of course we were at the BayFF on Bloggers' Rights. We'd like to say that we were there because we were dying to hear the roundtable discussion on legal issues surrounding blogging, but we were mainly there to support SFist Jackson, who managed not to mention crack this time in his role as panelist. It's probably a good thing we weren't there out of our desire to be educated on blogging......

Want to know how to get SFist's attention? Try sending us a press release that reads like this: THIS EMAIL IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY—PLEASE EAT EMAIL AFTER READING. You've been sent this email because you are a Person of Special Interest. The Billboard Liberation Front is planning a large-scale improvement on Monday, May 30th—Memorial Day. I don't want to give away too much about the nature of improvement, but I will go as......