This citizen data scientist has broken down SFPD data to make trend maps of drug offenses in San Francisco. [Lance Martin] The proposed Mission development moratorium includes a ban on new high-end restaurants,

Another case of sexual battery has been reported on the UC Berkeley campus. [KRON 4] About 50,000 Uber drivers across multiple states had their information compromised in a data hack that happened

Up to 1,500 BART riders could have been exposed to measles, again, when an infected San Mateo County resident rode from Millbrae to Civic Center station last week. [ABC7] Zelda Williams gives

It’s going to cost us $22 million and a year of work to clean up the toxic mess left behind at the soon-to-close Pacific Gun Club. That's 80 years’ worth of shotgun

Should SF meet its affordable housing goal...by building in Oakland? Hey, it wasn't my idea, blame Oakland's new mayor! [SF Chronicle] The Borderlands books saga continues: now they're pitching a sponsorship program.

Some Bay Area folks are finalists for that one-way Mars trip, where the rent is presumably cheaper. [CBS5] Michael Bauer comes out against the current system of tipping. [Chron] A very impressive woman

Fire officials have acknowledged that their inspectors were lax when it came to documenting repairs of violations like the ones found (for years) at the building at 22nd and Mission Street that burned

Today has been declared Sylvester Day in San Francisco. And you know about the Sylvester musical right? [EurWeb] Powell Street BART station filled with smoke today due to a "sparking track insulator." [AP]

How Being Flip On Twitter Can Ruin Your Life: The Justine Sacco Story Remember her? She tweeted "a joke" and then got in a plane, and by the time she landed everyone was

Farewell, Geary Boulevard Radio Shacks! Oh, come on, like you're surprised. [Richmond SF blog] Do you live on landfill? If you can handle the anxiety that might come with the knowledge that you're

San Francisco, where the medical pot is free if you use this weed delivery app for the first time. [SF Weekly] Playland Bar, which has been suspended due to allegations of an employee

Thousands of dollars in fancy-pants shoes have been stolen from a Union Square DSW. [SF Racked] Supervisor Yee says tour bus drivers shouldn't be tour guiding and driving. [CBS 5] Will Ocean Beach

A prostitution sting nabs 23 johns in the East Bay during the Super Bowl. [Chron] Emeryville police have fatally shot a woman on the border of Oakland. [Chron] A Lyft marketing campaign chalks

The show goes on for the bachelorette who took one lucky applicant on a dream date to Noma in Japan (he had to pay his way, of course). Still convinced she's on television,

In what he calls "textbook racism," comedian W. Kamau Bell was asked to leave a Berkeley Restaurant. [W. Kamau Bell] Four local chefs reminisce about the shuttered restaurants they miss most. [SF Eater]

Folks are covering those explicitly Islamophobic Muni ads with images of a Muslim superhero. [io9] Does BART need platform walls? [mrericsir.com] A community remembers Benihana staffer and student killed in that Hayes