This holiday weekend we've put aside the the more common charitable activities in favor of FreeRice.com, a web-based word game that purports to feed the world's hungry. The game is simple enough: it presents a word (supposedly an English word, but we have had our doubts on occasion) and a list of four potential synonyms. Choose correctly, and ten grains of rice appear in a wooden bowl in the developing world. Three correct answers in......

One could hop on the snark wagon and refer to Darfur, the current Third World cause célebre, as the new Tibet or appreciate the 21st Century sensitivity to the non-universality of Christmas, but we are not that "one." The genocide going on in Darfur is pretty shocking and awful, and thus we applaud the efforts of the folks at Distortion 2 Static and Pumpkin Cutter Projects who are putting on The Save Darfur Tour......

As previously reported on SFist, today is the day the official, real Question Time is supposed to happen. Sometime today, the Board of Supes will read off all the names of people who should be in attendance and add one name to the list, that being Gavin's. Gavin won't be there, of course, because he will be at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with the stars, both poltical and movie. His attendance at the confab, however, isn't going over very well with some people. ...

We spend a considerable amount of our time pondering Gavin's every move. Some would say an unhealthy amount. But we're totally in the dark about his recent trip to Manila. Since we can't get any details of his itinerary from the Mayor's Office (what do we pay them for, anyway?), we decided to come up with a list of Gavin's schedule of appearances: ...

Dang it, another year has gone by and we still haven't won a genius grant. However, three folks in the area are pleased as punch, having gotten the legendary call out of nowhere that they've won half a million dollars for just doing whatever it was that they were doing anyways. Our local winners are: Victoria Hale, who runs the nonprofit biotech company OneWorld Health, devoted to developing pharmaceuticals for Third World countries; Claire Tomlin,......

Remember how bummed we all were when it was decided San Francisco would not be the city representing the U.S. for 2012 Olympic bids? Well, cheer up campers 'cause we're on the short list to be the bid city for the 2016 Olympics. Sometime this month, delegates will visit the city to check it out and gauge our interest and ability to host the Olympiad...

Stage Fog gets you into the great outdoors this week....