OMG we're so excited! Muni's giving away free computers, and all you have to do is sign up for their mailing list! Oh, and also sign up for some credit cards. And join Netflix. And a CD club. And a matchmaking service. And buy a satellite dish. This is such an awesome deal!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so why did we get an email from mailinglistadmin@sfmta.com that says "You've been chosen to recieve a free Sony Vaio"......

The hilarious Eugene Mirman and Jon Benjamin are hosting SF Sketchfest's "Fresh Faces of Comedy" show on Sunday night at Mezzanine that we can't wait to check out. There will also be a short film contest with Jon Lehr of TBS's 10 Items or Less (he was also Geico's Caveman, whom he looks nothing like, BTW), which had us chuckling aloud the other night. "Five finalists will have their grocery-store themed films showcased and the......

OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.) It seems that the new MacBook Air, just unveiled a few hours ago, features multi-touch ability on its oversized trackpad, similar to that of the iPhone; some sort of crazy wirelessness; recyclable aluminum case; a mercury and lead free display; and you can buy the thing in two weeks, starting at around $1799. Read more about it here.......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Zipcar, for renting cars by the hour or by the day. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Love is a......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where they're selling 12 shirts......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, which is in theaters now. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. Junkestra, a symphony played on junk and opening today! The California Wellness Foundation, presenting the winners of its 2007 California Peace Prize. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants.......

On the twenty-ninth of October two thousand and seven in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada's third same-sex wedding ceremony in a federal jail will take place. David Bedard, 22, serving a 10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter and his partner Sony Martin, 26, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, will join in holy matrimony. (Oh, my God, you guys. We're so gonna start crying!) This begs the question: which one is the bitch? Like most gay......

What do Broken Social Scene and Peaches both have in common? Leslie Feist! The Canadian singer-songwriter performs at the Fillmore tonight with Grizzly Bear. 1805 Geary St., SF. If you can't score tickets to the show, head over to Bottom of the Hill and check out NOMO, an Afro-beat band from Detroit for $10. 1233 17th St, SF. Calling all PSP fans! Head over to the Sony Playstation store at the Metreon to celebrate......

Yeah, yeah, everyone's talking about it -- hardcore gamers are camping out at the Metreon to buy a $600 Playstation, which goes on sale tonight at midnight. The first people showed up around 8 a.m., and as of noon today, there were 500-1000 people in line. The line is going down Fourth Street and turning down Minna. The line has 20 guards, who are handing out flyers labeled "bathroom pass" so those who had too......

We in the labs like to make fun of San Francisco, but if there's one good thing about SF, it's that it's not LA. The videogame trade show E3 is going on this week down in the City of Miserable Angels, and we're very happy to be skipping this year and not having to deal with the smog and money and sweat and desperation. Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint......

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is so close you can almost taste the LA smog and the tangy sweat of desperation. In honor of that, this week's round-up is all videogame-related news. Nintendo gave bloggers-who-think-they're-funny a present on Thursday by announcing the new name for their upcoming Revolution console (warning: slow-loading Flash site). It's going to be called "Wii." Seriously. With a "distinctive ii spelling" that's pronounced like "we," "wee," "oui," and "Wheee!" Early buzz......

The fallout from Apple's Boot Camp continues, and we in the labs are struggling to keep up. For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that is — they're really not kidding when they say you can't grab just any old installation disc. As soon as it was all up......

There's a lot going on in this picture, snapped last night in the Castro Muni station (click it for a larger version), so let's begin our reading with the original author's intent. Those irritating PSP ads (as opined about on Gothamist, discussed by a commenter, and complained about by lots of local bloggers) have finally been put in their place -- a billboard. Rather than being slapped up on peoples' walls in their neighborhoods, Sony's......

Now appearing 50% more often! San Francisco is not particularly happy with Sony right now. Law Geek Jason Schultz explains the rootkit fiasco to Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel of GETV, and while talented graffitti writers continue to be harrassed by the SFPD, Sony has no trouble spraypainting our town with 'viral' ads for the PSP. In other video game action, Electronic Arts is getting sued for stealing an idea for an independent game......

Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All right, actually we don't have a good excuse at all. It's an incredibly dull excuse that involves southern California, spotty Internet connections, no outgoing e-mail access, and no good way to synch bookmarks between a desktop PC and a laptop. But......

So you've gone through the wonderful experience of wearing hideous clothes, you set up your nursery full of cute things, and birthed your child. After a number of weeks of serious sleep deprivation and general insanity (piss off, Tom Cruise) you might want to start getting out of the house. But where does one go with a baby? We've come up with a list based on our own experiences. Feel like you will never......

Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist on shoots. The cool part was getting a chance to meet some pretty cool artists and to see reels from commercial directors around the world. Sure, they're shilling products, but at least they're getting paid to do their art, and sometimes......

What's that? Did you say something, Apple? Sorry, we weren't paying attention; we were too busy watching full-length movies on our Sony PSP's 4.3-inch widescreen. All the tech news and gossip sites for the past week have been full of will-they-or-won't-they speculation about whether Apple was going to announce a video iPod at its big press event on Wednesday. Our best guess in the labs was that there's no way Apple would release a......

Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy for you and a friend to swap a favorite record while riding the bus? "Freeze, it's the RIAA! Put down that bluetooth-enabled iPod!" That's right, the Supremes totally kissed the ass of the entertainment industry when faced with the choice between......

Arguments begin tomorrow in the MGM v. Grokster case being heard by the Supremes. BoingBoing is all over the story -- pointing out that even the relatively conservative Economist has come down on the side of P2P apps, links to another piece which flays the music industry for misrepresenting the actual costs of swapping songs, and notes that Mark Cuban has even stepped in to fund Grokster's defense. The EFF's Fred van Lohmann will......

Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a single full-length album for Sony Grace which gained him a certain level of appreciation, mainly with other artists and overseas. Buckley never got the homeland recognition many feel he deserved until after he died by drowning, at......

We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- liked that charmingly-naive Speeding Motorcycle song, remembered vaguely that Kurt Cobain had worn a Johnston shirt at the MTV Video Music Awards one year, and oh yeah, wasn't he also mentally ill, but not the guy who did that "Alanis Morrisette" song? Forty-four year old Daniel Johnston's life is sort of an outsider artist indie rock legend -- he drifted into Austin, Texas in the mid-80s, after dropping out of the circus (no, really!). He wandered around town, giving out copies of his album Hi How Are You, which he had recorded himself on a Sony boom box. People found the songs compelling, and when MTV swung into town for their show The Cutting Edge, they thought Johnston's crazy antics would make for good TV. Unfortunately, the crazy antics were probably also a sign that Johnston was becoming increasingly bipolar. The Devil and Daniel Johnston documents Johnston's life, music, and his mental illness, through interviews with family members, friends, and Johnston's own archives. Johnston, a profilic artist, had been making biographical films and cassettes since he was a child and sending tape-recorded letters to his friends, and granted the filmmakers access to the material. It's really an amazing and thought-provoking film. Art by Daniel Johnston...