- There have been a lot of mudslides in Oakland this week. [KRON4]
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens "baseball cards" details the names of the new Star Wars characters. That ball droid is called BB-8! [Entertainment Weekly]
- Here's a collection of California newspapers' front pages for today, all of which contain a big juicy photo and headline re the storm. [Poynter]
- Judge in Ross "Dread Pirate San Francisco Public Library User" Ulbricht's trial doesn't want to announce who's testifying against him because they think he'll try to have them killed. [Wired]
- Mark Bittman's going to teach a class at Berkeley. [Inside Scoop]
- Here's the 8-Market managing a massive storm in 1931. [Market Street Railway]
- New public art for Masonic and Geary. [Hoodline]
- Chinese company dumps a reported $600 million into Uber. [Bloomberg]
- SFPD says they've cleared their rape kit backlog, but thousands of cases whose statute of limitation has run out will go untested. [SF Examiner]