As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent in keeping track of donated cadavers. That's right - your dear Aunt Millie, who thought she was donating her body to science, may well have ended up on the black market in Nevada.  In 1999, the director of UC Irvine's body donation program was fired after allegations that he was selling spines to a Phoenix hospital.  We here at SFist will refrain from making a comment about the (har!) spine-chilling nature of this crime, but wonder: um, what exactly do you do with a pile of spines?  For those of you considering vegetarianism:  "There's more regulations that cover a shipment of oranges coming into California than there is a shipment of human knees that are going from a body parts broker in one state to Las Vegas," said Dr. Todd Olson, director of anatomical donations at Albert Einstein Medical School of New York. more ›

Wow, this news just keeps getting older. We were aghast, we were agog, and now were still awaiting. From that nation up north that brought you irresistibly spiffy furniture with funny names: more mass-produced madness! H&M (aka, Hennes and Mauritz) has long been a mecca for impoverished fashionistas across Europe, and the chain opened a string of much-hyped branches in NYC a few years back (our friends at Gothamist can vouch for the madness that ensued). This week's East Bay Express and SF Weekly feature splashy full-color ads for job recruiting sessions, with the implication that the westernmost branch of the store will be opening in SF....soonish. Until then, the closest branch is over in Chicago, where the weather is currently 17 degrees (feels like 6). more ›

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