- At least one Stanford climatologist is saying that the Pacific Ocean "blob" is not going to affect an El Nino pattern in the slightest, and will likely go away this winter anyway. [Bay Nature]
- Two Southwest Airlines planes clipped each other's wings while taxiing at Oakland Airport Sunday night. [SFGate]
- KRON 4's Stanley Roberts' stroke (it was a series of small strokes) on Friday was caught just in time, and he is already home recuperating, and he's posted a video showing a bit of partial ongoing facial paralysis. [KRON 4]
- Jennifer Siebel and Gavin Newsom are expecting another kid, which comes just as we learn that Yahoo's Marisa Mayer is pregnant with twins. [ABC 7, SFGate]
- Chron columnist Jon Carroll goes HARD after Ed Lee’s homeless stance surrounding the Super Bowl, asking what is up with this plan for people to basically "deport themselves" elsewhere. [Chron]
- Nick Bilton writes a terrific piece on the (very probable) tech bubble in Vanity Fair, and he suggests that the rising of Salesforce Tower in the coming year may be its biggest harbinger. "Virtually every great bubble bursting has been preceded by an attempt to build the tallest buildings. Forty Wall Street, the Chrysler Building, and the Empire State Building were under construction during the onset of the Great Depression. The Petronas Towers, in Kuala Lumpur, were completed in time to inaugurate the Asian economic crisis..." [Vanity Fair]
- Local car washes hate your filthy Burning Man cars. [CBS 5]
- Another sexual assault at UC Berkeley, this time in the library. [KRON 4]
- SF State cops will now carry tasers. [Golden Gate Express]
