Business & Tech Google Is Opening a Visitors' Center at Its New Campus In Mountain View for Tech Tourists Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
Arts & Entertainment SF Comedian Alexis Gay Brings Us the Tech Version of 'Shit San Franciscans Say' Remember the innocent days of 2011 when a YouTube meme took off and spawned a hundred iterations covering most U.S. cities and a variety of cultures and subcultures, even baristas?
SF News Not A Newsflash: Techies Hate Trump San Franciscans like to think of themselves as an enlightened bunch — from the love-parading nudists to the techno-utopian seasteaders, we know what's up. However, in recent years, the reputation of the quintessentially Bay
Arts & Entertainment 'No Tech Zone' Sign Appears At Alamo Square, Gets Promptly Removed Someone, possibly a local artist, printed up a rather professional looking street sign that was very professionally bracketed to a lamppost under some parking signs on the eastern edge of Alamo Square Sunday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Reformulated For Fewer Farts Does everyone remember Soylent, that local startup that makes a bland nutritional shake geared toward techies who don't want to leave their computers even to eat? Well, in an amusing recent development, the
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
Arts & Entertainment Sign Of The Apocalypse: Motorized Unicycles Taking Over SF, TV Reporter Announces "Tech hipsters are using new electric unicycles to get around town" begins this report from KRON4 on what might be the most irritating thing I have seen in a very irritating day. Described
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-House Tech Company Chefs Talk About What They Cook, Not About Stock Options Over at the Chronicle, Jonathan Kauffman did video interviews with a panel of tech-company chefs Lance Holton of Twitter, Brian Mattingly of Dropbox, Shane Dykhuis of BandPage, and Matthew DuTrumble of Zynga asking
SF News Yelp's CEO Makes Light Of S.F. Housing Problems, Blames Tech's Lack Of Diversity On Education Yelp is one of the apps I use most on my phone as it has essentially become the modern yellow pages, but it's a somewhat guilty pleasure after learning that the company's business
SF News Everyone Thinks Airbnb's New Logo Looks Like A Vagina (Except Airbnb) [Updated] Update: There's already a Tumblr dedicated to illustrating the new Airbnb logo in compromising positions. NSFW! Today Airbnb unveiled its new logo, which you can see above, and the consensus on Twitter is
SF News The Battery Turns SF Street Into 'Private Parking Lot' If you’ve been avoiding San Francisco's private club The Battery because A) You're not a millionaire B) You have actual friends you don't have to pay for C) They won't let you
SF News Want To Know Which Tech Execs Are Also Eviction-Happy Landlords? Well, protest group the Anti Eviction Mapping Project sure does. On Thursday they released a "dirty dozen" list of executives in the tech sector who they claim have evicted or are in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New List of S.F.'s 'Douchiest Bars' Is Equal-Opportunity Hateful Angry young man Milton Bosch, writing for Complex City Guide, toured San Francisco in search of its "douchiest bars." Now, while I don't argue that our fair city has its share of asshole
SF News Google Has Now Patented A Contact Lens Camera Oh, for god's sake. The overlords at the Googleplex, not satisfied to have everyone wearing face computers that can easily attract shaming and be snatched off their faces, are at work on a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Combats Reservations Bots The douchiest, greediest, tech-iest phenomenon to ruffle S.F.'s restaurant scene may finally be getting shut down, thanks to OpenTable. Yes, as Inside Scoop and Paula Forbes are reporting, State Bird Provisions
SF News That Techie You're Mocking Might Be A Gun Nut When we say "techie*," what mental images appear? Big shuttle buses? $4 toast? Glassholes? Well now, according to one SF club, you might want to add "guns" to that list. San Francisco's Pacific
Arts & Entertainment Watch John Oliver Skewer Techies At The Crunchies John Oliver On The Tech Industry | Crunchies 2013 Last night I had the pleasure of watching John Oliver emcee the Crunchies. His opening monologue was only brimming not with attacks on San Francisco
SF News Techies Need A Real Come-To-Jesus Moment, Says Silicon Valley Prayer Leader In Silicon Valley where tech is god and venture capitalists are prophets, one devout Christian and former tech CEO is hoping to bring the good word to the godless heathens of the tech
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland: 'Die Techie Scum' I've lived in Oakland for 33 years and never seen this kind of hate. It doesn't help anyone. pic.twitter.com/lZE2JU2Omv— Bill Budge (@BillB) January 3, 2014 Video game programmer and designer
SF News Startup CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates' Let's all bid Greg Gopman of AngelHack adieu from Baghdad by the Bay. This place, it seems, is just too gross for him. See, the noted maker could be the second coming of
SF News Techies Hate It When You Call Them That, Say Techies In Coffee Shops The preferred terms, according to one techie interviewed by the Chronicle while working at a Four Barrel Coffee in the Mission, are: "hackers," "makers," or "coders." The dreaded t-word is not only insulting,
Arts & Entertainment Winklevoss And His Khakis Ruin Burning Man Aggressive dom-top daydreams notwithstanding, this Instagrammed Tyler Winklevoss pic from Burning Man 2013 shows that, alas, the party in the desert is officially done. "If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man: White-Hot Spot For Tech Schmoozing The boy-centric tech industry has taken a shine to the annual Burning Man gala in the desert, which starts this weekend. Once known as a free-spirited event free from the shackles of corporate
Arts & Entertainment World's First LGBT Gamer Convention Comes to S.F. This Weekend The gaming world is full of dicks, and not in a good way. Gay guys and women (especially women) aren't typically welcome within this fascinating world of digital dorkdom. (Your SFist editor's own
Arts & Entertainment Details Emerge About The Costuming Of Sean Parker's 364 Wedding Guests It's a slow news Friday, and thus we remain obsessed with Sean Parker's ridiculous, over-the-top, Lord of the Rings-themed wedding in the woods in Big Sur, which happened on June 1 but the