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.
SF News If You Write It, They Will Com(pute) A side note: Leapfrog's website is pretty nicely done. Thank the talented kids at SF-based Evolution Bureau for that. There was no word at press time whether the Fly Pen can be used
SF News SFist Macworld Lunchbreak Because of the potentially inclement weather, we were confused as to where the meeting place would be. We tried Chevy's (hey, Jason, the hostess there wanted me to tell you that they only
SF News Macworld Rumors Abound on Internets Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad
Arts & Entertainment Gimme Indie Books Good news for city readers -- Berkeley indie bookstore legend Cody's Books is following in the lead of its across-the-street neighbor Amoeba and opening a branch in San Francisco. Cody's has signed a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Brian Singer Brian is the creative force behind 1000 journals, one of the coolest traveling projects ever. In fact stop reading SFist for a minute and click on that link. Cool, right? From our um,
SF News Get Ur Geek On - What We Want For Christmas Edition The Flash iPod has been rumored for a while now - in fact, it was speculated to come out before the iPod photo. Now we have more than a rumor we have an
SF News Thank you! So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be
Arts & Entertainment All You Need Are Yellow and Green Earbuds for the Burning Spear Edition [] Yesterday afternoon, Apple introduced a special edition iPod - we figured Steve Jobs might have iPod news hiding up his sleeve. The black and red U2 Special Edition comes with a poster and
SF News Co-creator Talks Smack About Mac It's the twentieth year of the Mac, and it's the twentieth year of Jef Raskin snarking on Steve Jobs. That's right, Mr. Raskin, one of the computer interface pioneers behind the original Macintosh,
SF News Oh My iPod "Well, HP wants a digital music player as part of their new line of media products for the home user." "Hmm. Over at Apple, we want to distribute our products to people who
