misc Dear Mr Ford: We Go First Person On Your Ass So, I'm on the N Judah this morning, around 8:45. I'm seated when I feel someone leaning on me. Lord help me, I look up, all annoyed, when I realize that the
SF News Server Problems Continue We know, we know, we're sorry -- if it's any consolation, it's even worse for us here on the inside. For the SFist Bingo game we're thinking about for the upcoming birthday party
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News Palms, Palms, Palms for the Poor We were reading the Chron this morning and read up on their story about the planting of palm trees throughout the city. Let's just say right off we like palm trees. And let's
SF News All This Griping Makes Us Want To Throw Something Out The Window It all started so innocently -- we got a release telling us about the Defenestration Literary Journal Launch Party at the Rickshaw stop. Being accomodating folks, we added this event to our Wednesday
SF News The Perils of Blogging Drunk What made us laugh even harder, though, was when John at The Legal Reader emailed to explain that it was all something of an accident. A BUI, if you will:I got home
SF News We Love Movable Type! We started out with a Blogger blog because, well, that was the only tool we knew about at the time. Making the jump to SFist, we discovered how much better a blog could
SF News Blogger Softball: Story of a Meme As we all know, it doesn't matter if you can write your way out of a paper bag, all that matters is if you can compete on the field of intramural athletics. We
SF News Trolls Rejoice! You know, over the last year we've gotten a few choice comments about our use of the collective voice. "Trite," "precious," "pretentious," "stupid," "idiotic" -- and while we love us some reader feedback,
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
SF News Do You Want Results? Engage the Expand-o-Tron (nee "After the jump") for our analysis of the (spectacular) results.
SF News Best By the Bay! We've gotten shout-outs from some local media types who we really respect since we've been around -- Annalee Newitz, P.J. Corkery, Bill Picture (hey, we love gossip) and the staff at the
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
misc SFist on SFist What can we say about May? It was another rockin' good month for SFist. Traffic continues to grow, which means our contributors are one step closer to that special dinner at Denny's that
SF News Survey Says: You're Awesome! Of course, we're sure there are those of you who saw our plea and said, "I'm busy. These things are lame. I'm not going to participate." Well, that's always an option, certainly. But
SF News SFist Wants Five Minutes of Your Time We'll use the feedback to think of new ways to serve you, our readers and to generate interest from potential sponsors -- so that we can turn around and spend the money on
SF News SFist Raves: MUNI Moments Yeah, MUNI stinks on multiple levels. Bitch bitch bitch. All the more reason to give props where props are due. A few weeks ago we were taking the bus, the number and destination
SF News SFist Rants: That Irritating KOIT Commercial Surely Ethan and we (Cecilia?) are not the only people who are annoyed all to s**t by this TV spot about a strange cube-worker who is driven into an insane rage by
SF News SFist Raves: Ocean Beach Many readers took issue with our rave about the N Judah, all of whom making points we acknowledge as valid. However, we'll brook no such argument when it comes to Ocean Beach, this
Arts & Entertainment Glossy-ing It Up Hey, congratulations to local magazine (on contemporary design and architecture) for winning the National Magazine Association's prestigious "Ellie" award, for best magazine with circulation from 100,000 to 250,000! Dwell beat out
SF News SFist Raves: The N Judah We complain about MUNI all the time, and we're not about to take it back. But like all great passionate affairs, our hate, anger, frustration, and disappointment is tempered by deep love, like
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
SF News Searching For Kevin Bacon Image is everything. It's not a matter of looking like the most intelligent, cultured, and radical person who ever walked the face of the Earth, it's just a matter of looking like you
SF News SFist Rants: Move to the Back of the Bus, Please SFist has lived in this city a long time and there are some mysteries about this place that we’ll never fathom. Like all the guacamole love. Or what’s up with Dennis
