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.
misc What-ever: Hyphens Pulled Earlier this month, the newest (and truncated) version of the OED got rid of many cherished hyphens. The editor, Angus Stevenson, "eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition," according to a
SF News More On That Crazy Sean Penn Story A little birdie sent us an e-mail concerning the story about Sean Penn's recent desire to wade into the wonderful world of SF politics. According to said birdie, Madonna’s ex was watching
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
misc New SFist Giants Contest Hey Giants fans, hate the Dodgers? Like, really, really, really hate the Dodgers? Wanna have some snarky yet juvenile fun at their expense? Hell, what else can you do considering they're in first
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Anyways, back to the show. This week I’ve decided to go a little bit off the grid and throw some stuff out there that nobody asked for. Here’s my Things That
SF News The Return of Ask a Muni Driver And, as always, if you have a question you'd like to ask, e-mail us at editor at SFist.com {Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for anything except my opinion as a
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF News Snitching-- Not Just For Witnesses to Shootings Anymore The bill calls for the DMV to set up a special toll-free number and/or e-mail address for people to report carpool crooks. And hey, that way people who see them will have
Arts & Entertainment No Fun Tomorrow at 7, the Democratic County Central Committee is going to vote on a resolution in support of fun. It's far for sure that this resolution is going to pass, so everyone is
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
misc Thank You For Smoking The ordinance, however, isn't going down easily. Many people, including non-smokers, are thinking the measure is a little too harsh. Says a flak for the California Apartment Association, “we are in no way
misc Call Me One name that has already been bandied about is noted toe-sucker and Fox News suckup Dick Morris. Palfrey dropped his name but Morris denied it, even though he supposedly admitted to it in
SF News Love on The Run: Crush or Flush Just similar in design to speed dating but specifically designed for the cell phone, Crush or Flush™ displays a picture and personal descriptors (tags) for each person that you can peruse with just
SF News Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign The artist in question, Michael McDonald, has been putting little art displays in front of his house for years but this one in question got the law involved. They not only paid him
SF News Doing Something About the Violence As a result, people in the neighborhood are in full "mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" mode and organizing. Their request? Send cards, letters, and e-mails to Gavin,
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Barbie We got this forwarded to us in e-mail recently and it's kind of funny. Who doesn't love busting on people from the East Bay. Mattel recently announced the release of the improved limited-edition
SF News Deadly Weekend in the City The first one occured about 10:15 on Sunday morning (again with the morning shootings) when the victim, Anthony Hunter Jr., was just cleaning out his van when two men approached on foot
Arts & Entertainment It's The "Dark Day" Video Clip We got an e-mail a few days ago with a link to a YouTube clip done by the people responsible for those SFPD training videos. Since this thing is getting pretty viral pretty
misc Tales of Parking Woes Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time
misc SFist Ticket Giveaway: Closing Night of SF Sketchfest The performers will be the Kids In the Hall's Bruce McCulloch and will feature both music and comedy. Also performing will be Craig Northey, Hard 'n Phirm, and Dragon Boy Suede. Yes, that'll
misc SFist Needs Your Help Friend of SFist, Julie, sent us an e-mail this morning about yet another assault, this time in the Marina. Believe it or not, the cops weren't that much of a help in this
SF News Wi-Fi Deal One and Done Here's the details: -Earthlink will build the infrastructure and Google will provide the service. So look for an influx of [email protected] accounts -The speed will be 300 kilobits. That's much faster
SF News Surf's Almost Up Anyways, this Saturday there will be the official opening cermony even if it's not surf time yet. Attending will be all the surfers who hope to take part in the surf contest whenever
Arts & Entertainment They Walk Amongt Us Who are these people? Posters on SFWall.net Why are these people so dangerous? Because some of them might be moderate or even....Republican. Luckily, thanks to H Brown, these people might actually
