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24 Hour Nerdy People

Tonight: The Canvas Gallery is hosting "Ask a Scientist," with Nancy Garland, a Technology Development Master at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussing Alternative Energy: A Cleaner Future for Cars.

SF News

Pac Zen: The Way of Bay Football

This SFist was actually kind of excited about the chances of the college football programs around the Bay this season, with the Pac 10 looking wide open. Then Cal got whipped like cream

Arts & Entertainment

Josh Wolf Receives Bail

The 'Gate is reporting that Josh has been granted bail by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, to wit: In a brief order, two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court

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Get Ur Geek On: Don't Call it a Comeback

It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be

Arts & Entertainment

Dirty, Dirty Bloggers

Q: Are you going to be trading up, a la One Red Paperclip? A: I wasn’t, but after pondering this question for the entirety of my morning commute, I decided that I

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Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video

Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the

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Wanted, Dead or Alive: BNE

While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as

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Why We Call it 'The Comical'

Geez, we all know about Gavin's struggle with dyslexia, but even SFist wouldn't be mean enough to make fun of it, much less in a one-inch front page

Arts & Entertainment

Larry Clark on <em>Wassup Rockers</em>

While at times funny and entertaining, the movie seemed to shy away from the provocative sensationalism of his earlier work, which may have something to do with Clark's difficulty getting US

SF News

Warning: May Cause Legal Leakage

After the jump, paranoid former Tower of Power bassists, plucky Chronicle reporters, and embarrassing details about professional athletes that the goverment doesn't want you to know!

SF News

The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft

Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that&

SF News

4.7 Quake on Calaveras Fault

Anybody else feel the seismic alarm clock go off this morning at 5:24? A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Calaveras Fault, centered approximately six miles from San Martin, California. It was

Arts & Entertainment

Vloggercon 2006

Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine

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Bay Guardian Down, But Not Out

Maybe there is something to this 6/6/06 numerological weirdness after all. The mood seems dark and sinister for an election day. And it was certainly some devilish characters who have shut

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Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0

This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our

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SFist Unintentional Party Crash: Wired Rave Awards

Honest to goodness, we weren't even planning on going to the Wired Rave Awards, much less wandering in uninvited (we've been, it's not all that). We just

Arts & Entertainment

Bedbugs, Bedbugs, Whatcha Gonna Do?

But by the morning of the 27th, my arms, legs and other parts of my body were full of bug bites (I took some pictures of the bites). As I was sitting on

SF News

Happy May Day

It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to

SF News

San Francisco is Being Invaded!

You may have already noticied the surprising tactical move to seize local public transportation, or the advance battalions who've landed on the Embarcadero, sending skirmishers down Market street. Word is that

Arts & Entertainment

Backfence Moves Into Our Backyard

A new neighbor has moved into an old house in the 'hood, renovated the place and promises to be part of the community -- going to PTA meetings, Little League games, community centers

SF News

Wikipedia Dumps 'Marina Girls'

A battle has been raging behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, it's not over copyrights or veracity or how well an article explains its premise. It's over whether or

SF News

Rich A Ofays Still Some Racist Motherfkers

Between a skyrocketing homicide rate, brutal and incompetent police, moves to completely redevelop the last community stronghold in The City, the shutdown of a school named after a famous local civil rights leader

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Bay Blogger Special: Nicks Invade The City

Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held a swanky fete at her Russian Hill apartment to introduce folks around. Lots of familiar faces were there -- Nick Denton and fellow Gawker Media

SF News

Did the SF Weekly Scapegoat Harmon Leon?

Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no

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SF Weekly To Issue Correction

Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild.