misc Photo du Jour 35 An ancient (and, of course, alleged) shot of our favorite graduate of Standford Business School cum First Lady of San Francisco necking with Dr. Doug Ross, circa 2002. The two of them, it
SF News Yahoo Settles With Journalists They Threw In Prison Weep no more, my lady. After handing over an apology to the sobbing mother of a Chinese journalist that they helped imprison, Yahoo now must hand over an undisclosed amount to the scribes.
SF News Gap Kids: Made for Kids, by Kids As if Don Fisher doesn't have enough on his hands, now this: in addition to environmental carelessness and No-on-A-isms, the Gap founder can now add human right violations and child labor abuse to
SF News Advertising Won't Grace Golden Gate Bridge Much to everyone's delight, we're certain, today Golden Gate Bridge corporate officials rejected an offer that would have seen the city rolling around naked in millions of dollars from advertising. A plan that
SF News Get a Job Sadly, no open meat-pie maker positions just yet. But until then, check out the following non-cannibalistic gigs such as: -- Start-Up Looking for Talented Engineers [Discovery Engine] -- Creative Director [DHAP Digital] --
SF News MySpace to Open SF Office This Week What's more, the Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation-owned site plans to hire over 200 new employees, redesign the site, and allow users to add widgets. Fear not MySpace suicide contemplators; you might not have
SF News Wikipedia Makes Move to SF Currently with six full-time employees on staff (whoa), according to the Chronicle, Wikipedia wants to expand its talent base while increasing its presence in developing countries (i.e., Asia), so it's making the
SF News Relax and Enjoy It: Google Will Rule Us All With an initial starting price at $85 three years ago, Google, Inc's stock screamed past $600, closing today at $609.62. Remember seeing those Google help wanted ads a few years ago on
Arts & Entertainment Crafts, Books, & Booze Ever think of starting your own crafty business? Want to meet a bunch of people who have, including a local author who wrote a book on the topic? Or maybe you just want
SF News Get a Job -- Account Supervisor - Search Engine Marketing [OMD] -- Investment Analyst [Prudential Financial] -- Sr. Business Systems Analyst [Administrative Office of the Courts] -- Product Manager - Online Advertising and Marketing [Mediaplex] And
SF News ...In A Material World Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the
SF News BofA: Just One More Dollar, Man? Please? At least they're not following suit like some of those janky ATMs found at liquor stores and seedy bodegas. Some of those machines charge $5 or more depending on the time and day.
SF News Get A Job He has a nifty tech job. Do you? No? Well, then: -- Web Developer [Apex Systems, Inc.] -- Internet Coordinator [Williams-Sonoma Inc.] -- Java Developer [TEKsystems] -- Flash Designer [Syndero] - Lead UI
SF News Coitus Interruptus for Good Vibrations According to the Chronicle, "revenue this year is likely to end up $3 million short of the $13.9 million they had projected. They are seeking a $500,000 line of credit to
SF News American Airlines Forces You To Purchase Crappy Airline Food Via Credit Or Debit American Airlines flights leaving the San Francisco area will soon be testing an in-flight program that eschews cash. From Sept. 10-Sept. 30, certain flights from the carrier will allow you to purchase cool
SF News Get a Job Pad those resumes, folks, because these large, North Face-wearing, faceless corporations want your souls: -- Front End Lead [Cake Financial] -- Senior Graphic Designer, Web [Fox] -- VP Sales & Marketing [Fuzzi Bunz]
misc Don't Let Them Increase Your Property Tax Payments We know we're treading in slightly dangerous territory here -- while we're fairly sure a good chunk of our readership are homeowners (condo, single-family, multifamily, whatever), we know an even larger chunk are
SF News Get a Job -- Volunteer/Intern (And maybe a mole for SFist? Just kidding. Sort of.): [Office of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick] -- Interactive Producer [Clear Ink] -- Experienced Web Hacker [Zivity] -- Creative Development - Marketing
Arts & Entertainment Is Digg Going To Be A 'Classified Killer' Too? Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list
SF News Get a Job Time to stop fretting over whether he is or is not the father. Time to get a job. How about: -- Backend Software Engineer - Digital Music Store [A2Z Development] -- Executive Director,
SF News Inauspicious Virgin Flight For New Branson Venture Oh, sweet irony. Citing reasons to get into the airline game, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame said, "the American airline industry is abysmal." That may be true, sir, but it looks like
Arts & Entertainment Gap's Founder Wants To Open Art Museum We like art. We're fine with the Gap retail store. We're not prepared to make any statements on Mr. Donald Fisher himself. We will, however, admit that the prospect of Mr. Fisher opening
SF News Guilty Of Backdating The damning part of the trial came when the HR director in charge of benefits testified that Reyes told her that "it's not illegal if you don't get caught," though on cross-examination, the
SF News <i>Yelp!</i> Guns Drawn In Front Of Yelp's Offices? Friend of SFist Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's CEO and co-founder, just shot us this note: Guns drawn in front of Yelp office... Jeremy (That would be Mission & New Montgomery.) According to Jeremy's comments
misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
