Matier & Ross were all over this nugget of news today: bronze plaques will be placed in locations where the city's homeless have died. The "memorials" will be placed in Chris Daly and Ross Mirkarimi's districts, which include the Tenderloin, Civic Center, Haight-Ashbury and Western Addition. Each will be 2 feet by 2 feet "human-shaped plaques" and "[inscribed] with details of the deceased's lives and the circumstances of their deaths," according to the Chron. Let's......

In today's world of Xtube and the like, Dennis Saunders -- Healdsburg's very own convicted peeping Tom, whose stash was confiscated by the police -- now wants his pornographic material back. And as one commenter pointed out on SF Gate, "Who in their right mind will pay for porn this day and age?" Really, who would nowadays? And more to the point, who prefers videos and magazines to the clean and ease of blue......

Was it just us, or did you also think, as soon as the Bay Bridge closed, that the only things you wanted to do over Labor Day Weekend were on the other side of the bay? Well, all those days are now nothing but a hazy memory, with the bridge reopening a full 11 hours earlier than planned (at around 6 p.m. last night) and traffic flowing relatively normally (i.e., jammed, but no more......

Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty much useless. To wit, they've only been used for evidence in two cases, neither of which were the homicides that they said the cameras would help solve. Whether this is because cameras don't deter crime, or because the restrictions that the civil......

Hey, why is Gavin Newsom's face pasted onto an Oscar the Grouch body in that graphic? Because he's taken over 300 trash cans off the streets. Why? Because they had too much garbage in them. We know! It's nutty! Newsom, in his defense, says that SF has more garbage cans than any other comparable city, and he thinks people are using them to throw away personal or commercial trash instead of signing up for garbage......

We're hearing word about today's Board of Supes meeting! So apparently Michela Alioto-Pier, without naming Chris Daly specifically, was going on and on about the need for civility at the Board of Supes, and introduced her code of conduct for members, like she's been saying she would. Then Chris Daly gets up, and proposes his own code of conduct -- namely, one that 1) prevents fraternization between any city official and a person directly under......

SFist interviews David Hyman founder of MOG, and online music community. ...

We're pretty sure you guys have noticed, but there've been a few changes around these here parts. First, if you'll point your gaze toward the top you'll see a swell menu bar. Also importantly, we've gone to a 10 posts per page model -- and since we usually manage 15 or more per weekday, we encourage you to check out the second page every day once you're done with the first. Don't miss out an early story if you log on late!...

While we should have been writing this post we spent a little too much time getting lost in the fabulousness that is Naughty Secretary Club. We suggest you head on over there and reward your desk sitting butts by taking advantage of their annual Administrative Assistants Week sale happening from April 22-28th. Everything on the site is 25% off. And they've also just added over 100 new items. Just in case you needed another distraction today. And if anyone wants to buy our desk sitting butts anything we're totally in love with the blue beehive ring. We all know about Wikipedia. But now us crafters have our very own wiki (can anyone say that word without feeling the like comic book guy from the Simpson’s?) to turn to. Craftacular is just getting started but it's striving to be a great community driven site, which includes not just definitions but also knowledge, patterns, and resource links. You can start a new page, edit an existing one or offer up a tutorial an original pattern. Pretty neat. So are these Microscope Slide Brooches we found by Robin Beam while spending some time on Craftacular. ...

Friend of SFist Peggy saw our story on bad people parking in bad ways and sent an e-mail telling us of her tales of parking woes. She also sent to us the e-mail exchange she had with the Taraval Station Police Department about what to do about her problems. ...

We vowed we wouldn't do it, but since we're obsessively hitting refresh on our browser every five minutes anyways, we might as well! We may take off in a bit to hit some of these election parties we've been hearing about, but here's where we are for now. Updates on top, like a mini-blog. 12:10 a.m.: Okay, we're calling it quits for today. The stats are: Daly at 49.66% with 5,471 votes and Black at......

Well, on the down side, they're now charging so much for cable cars ($5) that no one wants to ride them anymore. On the up side, no one's going to be able to ride them anyways -- at least not today! Cable car service on both the Powell-Mason line and the California line are down all day after alarms went off on both lines, indicating possible damage to the cable. In separate news, the historic......

Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter, he's moved onto another coffee-related venture as a roaster at Ecco Caffe in Santa Rosa. Steve recently had a not-so-pleasant experience--he fell out the third-story window of the Burlington Hotel in Port Costa, Calif. ...

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......

A reader of SFist Answers writes in anonymously: This year, I'm celebrating my last under-21 New Years Eve. What fun things can the local twenty year old chick do to bring in the new year with her friends? In response to the obvious answer, sadly none of us have fake ids, so that's out the window. Have fun answering that one, cause it's a doozie. Well, anonymous reader, would it help if we told......

The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio." In it, the head of our state government is shown dancing ("badly," says Schwarzenegger's communications director), feeding a woman a carrot, and announcing that, "You know something? After watching the [dancers] shake it, I can absolutely understand why Brazil is totally devoted to my favorite body part: the ass." You're welcome to read that quote to yourself in your best Schwarzenegger accent as many times as you like. You know -- you can even say it along with him -- the Roxie is screening "Carnival in Rio" this weekend as part of the Found Film Festival. It's not you, it's me, mumbled redistricting advocates to our governor, as they informed him that they would be breaking up with him and his special election team to start their own "Yes on 77" committee. The Yes on 77ers are worried that redistricting will get dragged down to defeat if it's associated in any way with Arnold's flagging fortunes. And dude! You know you're unpopular when People Magazine (or was it US? We get them confused sometimes.) captions a picture of you rafting with your family with "well, he's up the creek -- but at least he has a paddle." (We cannot find a link of this, but we assure you that it actually exists!) Meanwhile, the governor's dinner at the Coralands Mansion in Hillsborough last night was -- you guessed it -- picketed by union members, some of whom were wearing pig masks. Second picture from the San Mateo Daily Journal...

Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" to turn up old webpages from the Healthcare Advocates website (which is kind of like a web design wayback machine) while preparing a trademark infringement defense for their client Health Advocates. Well, Healthcare Advocates says that the Internet......

Meetup madness! Tonight at the House of Shields, indie publishers, zinesters, filmmakers, podcasters, airwave pirates and the like will descend upon the House of Shields at 7pm for the Webzine 2005 Drinkup! -- this isn't the official Webzine event (that's in September), but it's a chance to meet the organizers, pitch panels, come up with workshop ideas and, of course, drink lots of $2 PBRs (there will be some birthdays celebrated as well). SFist......

SFist interviews Teresa Williamson owner of TangoDiva.com...

Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few hours, and no, we're not talking about a party in Key West. Of course, one of the joys of baseball for the rabid fan is signing up with your friends for a fantasy baseball league. Right now, people are poring over......

Tribe.net hits 10,000 local recommendations....

The search is over; the perfect cup of coffee has been crowned. Go, my friends. Go now. There are times when we of modest writing ability are in bliss, for we find a subject that seems to write itself. Additionally, there are times when a Trimethyldioxypurist is in bliss, mostly having to do with, ya know, coffee. Welcome to a caffeine enthusiast's perfect storm. Welcome to Blue Bottle Coffee Co. Blue Bottle, whose roasting......

Finally, a calendar featuring good typography!...

Nothing the like Jesus' birthday around the corner to get juries in the hangin' mood, apparently. We understand that getting home to your family for the holidays after a long sequestration would be a priority, but they could decide just as quickly to let them rot in a cell, tortured by their guilt (and fellow inmates). We sure think that any extended stay in San Quentin or Pelican Bay would probably be worse than......

This is the second post in our Holiday Gift Guide spotlighting your Bay Area chocolate-buying options Founded in 1852 in San Francisco, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a well-known San Francisco institution and is also known worldwide, in the company of other prominent local names like Gap, Williams-Sonoma, Lucasfilms, and Alcatraz. Yeah, it's available everywhere. And that's one of the problems with Ghirardelli -- the quality of the overall product suffers. I would stress......