In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT 100 list, only gayer and just as relevant.) Mayor Ed Lee, the dirty bottom to the tech industry's aggressive dom top, made a required appearance at the festivities. So did Google VP Marissa Mayer and Gawker's Ryan Tate. more ›

In response to SFist Jay's lovely double-rainbow post from yesterday, commenter Appletwo brought our attention to Steve Jobs' Rainbow, a blog that chronicles various sightings of the rainbow that appeared shortly after the news of Steve Jobs' death broke on Wednesday. more ›

MUSIC: Amoeba will be hosting a Winterland Day Celebration, commemorating the worldwide release of Jimi Hendrix Experience Winterland, a four-CD box set documenting the band’s six historic performances at San Francisco’s legendary Winterland Ballroom over three nights in October of 1968. Bootsy Collins and Jimi Hendrix's sister Janie Hendrix will be in attendence. (7 p.m., Amoeba Music, 1855 Haight Street) more ›

THEATER: The Fringe Festival continues with gems such as I Love You, (We're F*#ked), "[a] wild mix" of stand-up comedy, storytelling and original music by Kevin J Thornton -- "a tale of lost love spun into a hilariously absurd odyssey of a gay man looking back over the greatest loves (and sex) of his life." (7:30 p.m., Exit Stage Left, 156 Eddy Street) more ›

MUSIC: Feeling down? Then get your dose of "musical Prozac" tonight, as Jonathan Richman kicks off his three-day stint at the intimate Make-Out Room, along with Tommy Larkins on drums. (7 p.m., Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street) more ›

Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout Asia, along with ancient and modern Chinese arts such as calligraphy, kite-making, and acrobatics. more ›

Currently residing on Harrison and Fourth above a Subway and next to a Whole Foods, Twitter headquarters is appropriately nestled in SoMa's tech-industry neighborhood. For now, anyway. "Media reports say that Twitter Inc. needs more space and is looking at the former Walmart.com campus in Brisbane, a city of 3,500," reports SF Weekly. "But losing Twitter would almost certainly slow San Francisco's momentum to become a high-tech hub. Just last year, the city was outpacing San Jose in courting venture capital dollars." And how. Here's hoping they stay put. more ›

Doing what IBM failed to do earlier this month, Oracle will purchase computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of cash, 9.50 per share. Oracle megalord Larry Ellison boasted about the buy, saying in a statement, “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves ... Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.” This deal will also give Oracle control over Java programming language and Solaris. (Jason Brooks of eWEEK explains it all in finer detail, right here.)
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-- And then Nancy was all, "Like, what the hell, you guys?" [SF Examiner] -- The Central Subway Project. [Transbay Blog] -- Now you don't have to leave your bedroom to travel. Ever again. Yay! [The Tech Chronicles] -- The seven rules for talking (and not screaming self-righteously) about gentrification. [Neighbors Project] -- Behold: SF Weekly's new food blog. [SFoodie] -- A censure-free DiFi. [SFBG] -- After it was revealed that he was, and... more ›

-- Toshio Hirano: Local country music star -- alongside his trusty bassist, Kenan O'Brien -- croons tonight at 9 p.m. at Amnesia; free. more ›

Kenneth Eng: remember him? "Why I Hate Blacks" and the weird dragon fetish? Well, after he got fired from his columnist gig at San Francisco's Asianweek, we've gotten quite a bit of news updates about him -- his YouTube clips, his weird statements after the Virginia Tech tragedy, and, most intriguingly, a copy of the book proposal he was shopping around -- but we decided as an editorial matter we weren't going to run anything else about the guy because he didn't deserve the attention. (which is why we're not giving you links to any of those news items as well.) more ›

This is sort of out of SFist's coverage area, but in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, and because the perpetrator is from Hayward, we're going ahead and putting something up: there was a shooting last night at Fresno State and one person is dead. more ›

It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,measureables! more ›

Sadly, because the Virginia Tech shootings have, in a perverted way, inspired copycats, City College today was shut down because a copy cat threatened to start shooting students. more ›

More mysterious criminal events in Fremont! This time, someone dropped a five-foot tall safe off a truck in the middle of the road. The safe had been pried open, revealing...... a collection of about 70 Star Wars action figures, still in their original packaging. Somewhere, a broken-hearted fan weeps. more ›

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. more ›

Here's todays wrapup of news stories. more ›

The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road to the Final Four less traveled.

If you went with the favorites, chances are you're sitting pretty. With the exception of the toothless male Badgers of Wisconsin, all first and second seeds in both tourneys advanced to the Sweet 16. That's not to say that a few high seeds didn't get a scare or that some middling seeds will never get a chance to germinate into full-blown Cinderellas, but overall, both tournaments are sticking to the script.

We've gotten a bunch of e-mails and complaints over the weeks that we're still having problems with the commenting. For that we apologize. Apparently, we still have some gremlins running around our system. more ›

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We've always wondered what would happen if there was a power outage somewhere in Silicon Valley. Would the stock market crash? Would we not be able to surf porn? Would we no longer be able to download "Buffy" reruns over iTunes? Well, we're about to find out as there's a blackout in one of the hearts of Silicon Valley, that being San Mateo County. more ›

For the week that burners are most burnt out, there's a lot of mess on tap. Even (and maybe especially) excluding the postponed Women on the Web mixer. more ›

There are few places where people get their collective geek on like Burning Man. A lot of folks are staying home this year -- Violet Blue gives some good reasons why -- and taking a chance to relax on the full-press coverage and pimp as much anti-party legislation as they can while the freak vote is out of town. more ›

First off, if you're one of crowd that heads to Austin each year for South by Southwest ("South by So What to the locals, apparently), the polls are still open to vote for what panels you'd like to see at the Interactive portion. So vote now, and we hope to see you there next spring. more ›

A new column devoted to the less-than-celebrated world of tech mixers, drinkups, LAN parties and other events for nerds and by nerds. Nothing says that computer junkies have to be anti-social! more ›

The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own battle for cycling supremacy going on right here in the Bay Area.

Today through Sunday, road cyclists from Pro down through Cat 5 and beyond can compete in the Cougar Mountain Classic on and around the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma. As an added bonus, the Cougar is playing host to the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships. That's the Nationals baby, right here, almost within sight of Mt. Tam, mountain biking's Hoboken.

With the advent of this Internet thingamabob, newspapers are finding themselves in quite a world of Darwinian hurt. In short, adapt or die. Lately, the Chron has been adapting by having some of their most favored writers do blogs on the SFGate side. Not a bad idea really as we're sure the idea of paying $30 a year to read Jon Carroll's cat columns is not going to bring in the cash money. How they've been getting the writers to do it is a good question as we have a feeling not many of them were that psyched on the idea. We're thinking either by gun point or with long-lost incriminating photos. more ›

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