SF News Muni Wifi at Minna So Media Alliance managed to score Lawrence Lessig for a prezzo at the venerable tech-art speakeasy at 111 Minna. We bought soda and took it seriously, and checked out some of the phantasmagoric
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: That’ll Be All, Jeeves Oakland-based “global web property” Ask.com announced late last week that they’re phasing out the Jeeves persona that was beloved by some. Their reasoning was “user confusion,” in that bewildered users mistook
SF News SFist Book Report: Tony Hall This Week If you read the Chron the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's Rally Save Kepler's! The Menlo Park community is rallying around the storied independent bookseller, who recently announced that it would have to shut down due to increasing rents. SFist Mary-Lynn was one of the
SF News Questioning TechConnect Feeva.com which provided the Union Square hotspot and which Google is apparently behind, have now linked to this Business 2.0 article on their website about possible Google WiFi plans because it
SF News How To Piss Off a Blogger Okay, we're going to have a little fun at someone's expense here, but we feel that they deserve it. Or at least, we deserve to. Because we feel rather jerked around, and were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Rants: Oh, So Bittersweet A lot of great stuff starts in the Bay Area. Conversely, it often ends here too. We guess that's our punishment for living in an area where a commitment to artisanal techniques goes
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Brad Bird's State of Cinema Address Surprisingly, the bulk of his talk concerned the Business End of the industry – specifically, the crappy things that studios, exhibitors, the media, and moviegoers do that allow awful movies to be made and
Arts & Entertainment They're Thinking Of The Children (Just Not Thinking Very Hard) Although similar recent efforts have mostly failed, our very own Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee is pushing a bill -- AB 450 -- that would fine retailers $1,000 for selling M-rated
SF News Layoffs At E*Trade Naturally, this didn't go over that well with everyone as they began to wonder what the chances of keeping their job are when they've just trained Sanjay and Apu to do it. Or
Arts & Entertainment Breaking News (Posted During Idol, no Less!) A quick recap on the anonymous Abercrombie & Hitler posters drawing gasps and artsy-fartsy analysis in the Castro. Horribly, some bastard has defaced the trademark-infringing Nazi images! But oddly, it wasn't the swastikas,
Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
SF News Yahoo May Have Already Bought Flickr Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart
Arts & Entertainment Abercrombie and Goebbels So, in practical terms, where does this bring us? To The Castro, to a major clothing retailer, and to Hitler. Obviously.
Arts & Entertainment Googler Dooced? So we're up late last night, checking Susan Mernit's blog to see if she had already posted on the dinner at Yahoo yesterday, when we catch her post from earlier in the afternoon.
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that there
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
misc SFGate Introduces RSS Feeds Virgil Porter forwarded us notice that SFGate has set up RSS feeds for some of their more popular coverage items. This means that we can link to and then snark on their coverage
SF News Tribe.net Running Its Own 10K Confidential to Tribe.net: when you're done patting yourself on the back, you might want to take a look at recategorizing your job listings so that it isn't a pretty much line-for-line plagiarism
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zegnatronic! Adriel Hampton reports on his blog that Alex Clemens, the mastermind behind SF politics must-see site Usual Suspects, has proudly bought ad space on the back of Frank Chu's "Impeach Clinton/12 Galaxies"
Arts & Entertainment They're The Same, But Different Just to confirm what we were all hoping would happen...okay, it's offical now, SixApart bought LiveJournal. So you can all start discussing it, as soon as you read Mena's fabulous primer on
