- "Thompson's boisterous, gravel-throated Armstrong is a joy to watch." [SFist]
- I remember reading an SFist comment the other day that asked something like "has Muni sent out an optimistic press release about how they will be fine during Super Bowl?" Well, here it is, written by Streetsblog SF's former editor, now an [SFMTA] flack.
- SF-based Ustream has been purchased by IBM. [San Jose Mercury News]
- Twitter's stock price has dropped so much that Jack Dorsey isn't a billionaire any more. [Forbes]
- Cyclist explains "new bike law" to Stanley Roberts. Yeah, the one that Ed Lee vetoed (and wasn't really a law, anyway). [KRON4]
- Beth Spotswood hits the SF Ballet gala. [SF Chronicle]
- Eating cheap(er) at local fancy restaurants. [Curbed SF]
- The [New York Times] promises "A San Francisco Super Bowl Experience, With or Without a Ticket."
- Woah, remember Second Life? They're back. [SF Business Times]
- How you can stay on Healthy San Francisco. [SF Public Press]
- An internal campaign poll has Scott Wiener leading his opponent, Jane Kim, by 15 points in their race for San Francisco’s state Senate seat. [Bay Area Reporter]
- If you see a Super Bowl license plate and wonder what it is, here's the deal. [CBS5]
- Business on Valencia Street isn't great. [Mission Local]
- Google paid Apple a billion dollars to keep their search bar on iPhones. [Bloomberg]
- "Close calls with motorist trigger a cyclist’s basic fight-or-flight system." [Streetsblog SF]
- Yahoo this month rebuffed several potential buyers for its core Internet assets. [Reuters]