SF News Comcast Changes Customer's Name To 'A**hole,' Now Says They're Sorry Someone inside the evil empire that is Comcast at least a sense of humor. A story's emerged via Wired that a Spokane, Washington man's Comcast bill arrived with his first name changed to
SF News Woman Gets Called 'Slut' By Hateful Envelope Lisa McIntire has really had enough of having her lifestyle choices judged by office supplies, and who can blame her? First it was the stapler telling her she looked "used up," then it
misc Red Devil Lounge, the iPhone of Nightclubs Red Devil Lounge owner Jay Siegan sent us this shot of the marquee outside his Polk Street nightclub. Well played, sir.
misc Muni Citations: Now Slightly Less Awful Attention criminals: as of this week, your swashbuckling days of villainy and misbegotten Muni rides have become easy and breezy. Muni has "decriminalized" citations, which means that you won't have to go to
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Let's get it started... "All MTA employees get to ride for free, provided they have their employee badges with them." Question for the Muni Security Guy, isn't it illegal for the fare inspectors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Sorry for the delay in getting SFist Tonight out. This afternoon was steeped in several fun-filled return trips to CompUSA, dealing with customer service. So much fun was had, folks, that we felt
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy We're cool like that. I have noticed a lot more inspectors recently, usually on the t or the n, ( I don't ride the buses). They are polite efficent, and 9 times out of
SF News NextBus TextMarks are at Your Service And: Ariel Poler, the CEO of TextMarks, has caught wind of our DIY transit project. In a comment on our last post, he writes, "I LOVE how you are using our service! If
SF News Let's Ride Muni to the Lazyweb Since Muni has been made reluctant, thanks to the union, to release any details from customers' complaints, let's start our own website where people can submit reports. The data from those reports would
SF News Leaked Muni Memo: "we need to take steps to ensure that unacceptable conduct does not continue" There's probably no shortage of folks who'll claim that this is yet another polite platitude. But check out this leaked Muni memo from Nat Ford: "we need to take steps to ensure that
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Strawberries (Maybe A Little Too) Wild Only about 50 cases went out, and they all shipped to southern California, Arizona, and Nevada from November 25-Dec. 1 -- that's less than 3% of all the smoothies made in that region.
SF News Your Commute: Cars There was a huge accident on eastbound I-80 today, near Pinole -- a five-car pileup. It originally started when a Civic spun out in the fast lane and was hit by a Camry.
Arts & Entertainment 3rd i South Asian Film Festival: Sorry We Missed It! We are so sorry that the collective we of SFist missed this year's South Asian Film Festival by Third i -- due to an unfortunate confluence of reviewers being out of town, a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Newmark As you probably know, Craig Newmark is the genius (and we really mean it here) behind craigslist, the most addictive place on the internets. SFist Nick Ross covers all things craigslist for us,
SF News Thou Dost Protest Too Much The bill actually came up for a vote but Sandoval pushed it aside to a committee, claming that he can't really support the bill because even he's having trouble speaking English, Shakespeare style.
SF News Your Commute: AC Transit No. 1 Well, now we feel guilty for taking BART to get to Oakland: the good drivers of the AC Transit won first place at the American Public Transportation Association "Bus Roadeo" event. AC Transit
misc Dear Mr Ford: Good (Kind Of) And Bad It wouldn't be Dear Mr Ford without an adventure with SFist Matt, would it? I must begrudgingly give Muni high marks for customer service today (even as I give it low marks for
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Deconstructing a Burgeoning Internet Phenomenon Apple Fires Employee For Having a Sense of Humor Apple once again shows how it "thinks different" by firing one of its customer service representatives for doing just that! An employee was fired
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Cat Piss & The Man The story is from the Infinite Loop blog on Ars Technica, complete with dramatic clip art. The human rights violation in question concerns a Dutch MacBook Pro owner who'd posted a Flickr photoset
misc SFist Raves: We Don't Hate SBC anymore And we so love the Power of the Blog! Do you remember, back in December we were ranting about SBC and how it had taken away our DSL and refused to discuss the
misc SFist Answers (Or Do We?) We try our best here at SFist Answers, but we have two very real limitations: 1) If y'all don't ask us questions, we have nothing to answer; similarly, the more questions we get,
misc SFist Answers Pities The Fool THIS WEEK: Fools, border crossings, weed vs. your heart, bikes on BART, and an easy way for SFist Answers to make millions. We took our title this week from Yueben Duped from Los
SF News Taking One for the Team SFist Ted, Weatherman, set a new standard for self-sacrifice that is going to be hard to top yesterday. On a cool evening at Jackson Park, SFist and friends took on Wired Magazine in
