SF News SFist Rants: The 12 Inch PowerBook From 2004 You know how your Catholic friends are all "Sure, I f**k around and take the pill, but dude, how cool is St. Thomas Aquinas?" Okay, maybe those are only Catholic friends. But
SF News Apple and Flickr are Giving Each Other a Massage And now for a sentence that, to non-geeks, may sound like gibberish: Check upcoming.org for info on next week's Flickr meetup at the Apple store. The lovely and talented Flickr team (including
misc Get Ur Geek On Special Edition Now, Rio will be allowed to continute producing their own products, but Rio's R&D department will basically be gutted and the valuable parts moved to SigmaTel. Why does this matter? Because
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
SF News Ride Tiger to BART Another plus of the BART Widget is that it's open source; Victor invites anyone making their own trip-planning widget to use his code to jump-start theirs. And finally, it's free, but if you
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Photologgers at the Apple Store The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just
SF News Intel: Not Just for Crappy Windows Machines Anymore Of course it's all over Technorati. Trying to dispel the kind of hand-wringing usually reserved for anytime George Lucas futzes with the original trilogy, Jobs let us in on another little secret: Apple's
misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
SF News Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
SF News SFist Est Amicus Curiae Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't
SF News Where's The Wifi? Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r
SF News F**k Arnold -- Nurses, Firefighters and Teachers Protest The Governator Update: Well, the updates didn't come as fast and furious as we though, as the crowd was very mobile, assembling at different intersections to block attendees and traffic at will. We kept trying
SF News An SFist Easter Miracle! As our loyalty to all things Apple has been on the wane of late, in large part due to the Apple v. Does case, we figured we take the lifeless carcass down to
SF News One Hundred Blogospheres Anil's gone and put together a bunch of observations on how individual blogospheres mutate and evolve, as well as interact with existing blogospheres. Remember that weird program "Life" on your Tandy? Or how
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Five -- Technoblogf**k Tonight we got to hang with our local A-list, which may be B-list as far as the major media mentions go. But we take heart when a BARBARian gets a mention in the
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
Arts & Entertainment Bad News For Bloggers SFist Jackson's not here today, but we know he'd want us to let you know that, as expected, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kleinberg ruled against the bloggers and for Apple. Judge Kleinberg
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Apple Bites At stake is something that SFist holds very dear to our heart -- the concept that bloggers have what journalists working in any other medium have, namely, journalistic privelege. We have our own
SF News Virtual Book Tour: An Interview With Author Tom Dolby As part of local literary impresario Kevin Smokler's "Virtual Book Tour," Tom will be spending the day online shilling his paperback edition of his debut novel. While we didn't get a chance to
misc It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song
misc Not Looking Good For Apple... ...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends
SF News Arguably, January's Second Most Important Birthday The fulltext of David Pogue's nifty and semi-hard-to-find 1997 article, "It's a Wonderful Mac," follows after the jump.
