misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
SF News Yahoo Hands Over Marine's Email To update a story previously reported on SFist, Yahoo, Inc. has complied with a court order handed down by an Oakland County, Michigan judge to allow the family of Marine Lieutenant Corporal Justin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Represent: Three World Class Restaurants! Of course, our first thought was how did we do against the other 'ists? Well, we beat the crap out of LAist, with a series sweep at three to nothing, and that's what
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Breaking News Edition SFist has been using products from both companies every day for the last few years, and would like to point out that this is a huge blow to the market competition for creative
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
misc Last Dance at SJSU This all started last month when a long-time booster and alumni Ray Silva, 74, complained about a performance the dance team was doing to the tune of LL Cool J’s "Move Sometin'"
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
SF News Supremes To Decide On Grokster Later This Spring Well, oral arguments in the MGM v. Grokster case concluded yesterday, and the reports from the scene conclude that the justices were very pointed in their questioning of the plaintiff, MGM. Reading different
SF News Game, Set And Match Granted, we get lyrical on days like yesterday, when the rain clouds clear and the sun shines over The City. But the ancient game of tennis has made the tales of no less
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
SF News Gropinator 2: Judgment Day A British reporter's claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger first sexually assaulted her, then libeled her in the press when she told the LA Times about the incident, survived a first round of review by
SF News The Schiavo Bill: How'd Our Senators Vote? And Why Didn't Any Bay Area Congressmembers Vote? It occurred to us that we don't pay that much attention to the individual voting records of our representatives. When elections come around, we pay some lip service to candidates' voting records, but
Arts & Entertainment Kimberly Guilfoyle Bolton? So as it rains so hard, we stare out the window and we wonder, with a little sigh in the heart -- what is our plucky broken-hearted former first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle doing
misc Happy St. Pat's from the Essefficist Like we said, it's Irish month around here. So here's the first annual Essefficist St. Patrick's Day column you've all been waiting for. We've got two questions today: one about a St. Pat's
SF News Gays Have Equal Rights Breaking news: Judge Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court has ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violate the California constitution. We're still looking for links to the order, and reporting about
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 Trouble at Technorati [] Friend of SFist Niall Kennedy managed to cause something of an uproar in the blogosphere this week. Trying to make a point about the tension between blogging and corporate public image by creating
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
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Fire Drive With Me This news item combines all our favorite things: commuter news, SUVs, cigarette regulation, the mayor's quality of life plans, and a generous espresso shot of schadenfreude to boot! Hooray! Did anyone see a
misc Problems at the Oakland Animal Shelter With all the positive hubbub about San Francisco's Animal Care and Control officers and its Dog Court (oh, you bet your sweet bippy we're discussing this in "We Read the Weeklies" tomorrow), it's
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.
