Hey, remember a few days ago, when we posted about how Muni sends out street-closure notices to reporters, but the notices also serve as handy little events calendars? Well, thanks to a well-placed tipster, we now have a better idea of just how rigorously Muni compiles the damn things. Their calendar of closures goes out NINE YEARS to the year 2016. Well, actually, Muni's only tracking one event that far into the future: the......

Growing up we went to a stuffy high school where Latin, Ancient Greek and even a little Sanskrit was taught. In college we surprised ourselves by diving head-first into media theory, examining how the thought patterns of literate people are fundamentally different from people within a solely oral tradition. It's a fascinating subject (OK, yes, we're geeks), but this meant we read Andrew O'Hehir's article on Andrew Dalby's book positing that Homer was a......

We want first to congratulate the 15,000 runners who took part in the SF marathon this past Sunday: you are amazing. Congratulations to all of you. But who is the dunderhead who decided to have the race start at 5:20 in the morning? You read it right, that is 5 bleeping 20 am! Outside temperature in the low 30s, and fog so thick that, if it wasn’t dark already, you would not see your toes......