SF News Happy 41st Birthday, Electronic Mail Forty-one years ago today, the first e-mail was sent out by--what else?--a pair of computer scientists, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and graduate student Charley Klein. Valleywag notes: "The message was to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Your Favorite Halloween Candy Is... By a landslide, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups ranked highest as your favorite Halloween candy. Created in 1928 by Harry Burnett Reese (H. B. Reese), a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton
SF News Scenes from AT&T Park During World Series Game 2 Photographer Generik11 (Erik) attended last night's victorious World Series Game 2, snapping these images of fans and scenery along the way. Enjoy.
SF News Troops, Families OK With Gay Service Anyone with a working brain and modicum of commonsense knows by now that there's 0.0 wrong with LGBT ilk serving in the military. AP reports: "An internal Pentagon study has found that
SF News (UPDATED) Suspicious Package Found at Front & Market The bomb squad arrived at Market and Front this morning after a "suspicious package" was found. We'll update as soon as we hear more. And, if we may add another dash of alarmist
SF News Video: Fight at Mission Bay McDonald's After World Series Game 1 Ugh, why not. It's Friday. This video was shot at the McDonald's on Third Street near AT&T park after Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday. According to YouTube user
SF News Giants Win Game 2 of World Series The Giants are heading to Texas this morning with a 2-0 lead in the World Series after pummeling the Rangers in Game 2, 9-0. The Chronicle's Gwen Knapp sums up last night's carnage:
SF News What's Going On Here, Justin Bieber? Sporting a Giants cap, Rangers jacket and plunging neckline, famed porcelain chanteuse Justin Bieber is shown here on the set of the music video for his song “Never Say Never,” at Angels Stadium,
SF News Day Around the Bay Remember to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Memorabilia sales spike after Game 1 win. [CBS 5] NYC Mayor Bloomberg endorses San Francisco Saturday Voting Act. [Why Tuesday] Dave Eggers
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dropping a 1,169lb Pumpkin Onto a Car From High Above Found by the fins folks at Laughing Squid, here's what it looks like when you drop a 1,169lb pumpkin onto a Pontiac. Ta-da.
SF News World Series Open Thread: Game 2 Last night's Game 1 open thread rocked. Thanks to those of you who participated. Many crucial points were discussed. KatyG brought up the possibility that Lincecum is the love child of Iggy Pop
SF News Glen Park/Sunnyside Fire Injures One An early morning apartment blaze injured one resident who was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. BCN (via SF Appeal), reports,: "At 2:57 a.m., crews responded to
SF News Your Game 2 Lineup Tonight's Lineup: Torres (cf), Sanchez (2b), Posey (c), Burrell (lf), Ross (rf), Huff (1b), Uribe (3b), Renteria (ss), Cain (p). First pitch ETA: 4:57 p.m. See you then, folks. In related
SF News World Series Photos: Giants Beat Rangers, 11-7, Game 1 As most of you know by now, the Giants won Game 1 of the World Series against the Rangers, 11-7. It painful but satisfying game to watch, one filled with errors and stupefying
SF News Brown Maintains Lead Over Whitman According to a Field Poll released today, Democrat Jerry Brown has a strong "double-digit" lead over his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman. "The survey found the former two-term governor leading the former eBay chief
SF News Who Is and Isn't Endorsing Sit/Lie? Here's some succulent comment bait for your Thursday morning: Matt Baume, in a Spot.us pitch, culled some impressive endorsement data about Measure L, the city's sit/lie law on the November ballot.
SF News Sanchez Breaks Series Record With Three Doubles During last night's Game 1 of the World Series, second baseman Freddy Sanchez stole the show after becoming the first player ever to hit a double in each of his first three Series
SF News Giants Win Game 1 of World Series The San Francisco Giants won Game 1 of the World Series against the Texas Rangers, 7-11. Photo gallery and more to come. Congratulations, San Francisco!
SF News Day Around the Bay World Series starts tonight. [McCovey Chronicles, SFGate] Things SFians like: The difference between "real" Giants fans and the other 99.9% of the city. [Appeal] Muni adds shuttle buses for World Series. [KGO]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Responds to Michelin Star Stripping Many of us expected Alice Waters to call upon the powers of Hell to deal with the 2011 MIchelin Guide's shocking exfoliation of Chez Panisse's one-star rating. Au contraire, sprigs of thyme. Waters
SF News World Series Open Thread: Game 1 We rarely, if ever, do open-threads, but we think this year's World Series merits one. For obvious reasons. And your editor (hi!) will chime in via the comments now and then, and we
SF News Scenes from AT&T Park Before Game 1 Begins Here are some scenes from AT&T Park and (a crowded) McCovey Cove today, mere hours before the Giants take on the Rangers in Game 1 of the World Series.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zaré at Flytrap Chef Suffers Heart Attack Our thoughts go out to Hoss Zaré, the benevolent and talented chef behind Zaré at Flytrap. According to his Facebook page and the SFist tipline, Zare suffered a (presumably) mild heart attack yesterday.
