SF News Peter Thiel Now Funding A Startup To Fund Third-Party Lawsuits Did you know that we're in a bubble? No, not a technology bubble, you overeducated ninny. “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed,” Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder, Facebook
SF News Peter Thiel, VC Billionaire Outed By Gawker, Writes NYT Op-Ed About Why He Helped Sue Gawker Media, bankrupted by a lawsuit regarding the website's release of a sex tape involving Hulk Hogan, is up for auction today, and the New York Times is using the occasion to offer
SF News Peter Thiel, Trump-Loving Tech Billionaire, Maybe Also Suing Gawker Over Article On Trump's 'Hair' "Paypal mafia" tech billionaire and Facebook board member Peter Thiel was awfully secretive about funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the media company Gawker (over, it would appear, an article drawing attention to Thiel's
SF News Gawker Founder Defends Coverage Of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel Declines To Debate Him Nick Denton, the Gawker founder whose suspicions were confirmed last month that a thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaire offended by unflattering coverage was bankrolling Hulk Hogan's devastating case against his media company, spoke out
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Says Peter Thiel Will Remain On Facebook Board Despite Attack On Gawker Providing an answer to a question asked by us and other news organizations last week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg today confirmed that Peter Thiel will remain on Facebook's board — despite the recent revelation
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News Marissa Mayer Appears on Today Show For those of you who watched Britney's birthday on Good Morning America, which we'll assume is all of you, Four Seasons resident and Google VP Marissa Mayer graced Today this morning. The multi-millionaire
SF News The Madonna-vs.-Christopher Ciccone-ish Brouhaha of the Internets Continues Just in case you thought you were over it, you're not. Not by the longest shot, kiddo. Because the Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing is far from finished. This most recent attack comes
misc How To Nap, In Case You Were Wondering We begged our boss for a nap room (or contemplated sleeping beneath our desk) while working in the cubicle jungle, but now this is scientific proof that we are predisposed to naps in
misc San Francisco Hipsters: The Most Tolerable Hipsters? Oh, the East Coast. It tickles us ever so. Last year Cornell University's Erin Geld wrote something or other about the Cosby's neighborhood as a bastion of coke-fueled cool, and all of the
misc Stellar Science Fiction Reading: io9 Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
Arts & Entertainment Best Headline of the Week (So Far) "James Frey Is A 'Rockstar Vampire' On Facebook" Hee! Care of the kids over at Gawker, this hed brings up a good point: we haven't a clue as to how play this newfangled
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week We're both flattered an saddened by our witty betters at Gawker -- flattered that they stole our idea to spotlight comments (not that we're especially innovative in doing so, but still); a little
misc A Glimpse into the Future of SFist Commenting Come, let us gaze boldly into the amazing future together, where events such as these will affect you ... in the future. As you may or may not know, readers of SFist are permitted
SF News Frank Chu Is Looking For Love Anyways, because it's always fun when the Gawker gang posts online dating profiles of various celebrities, we thought we'd post Frank's even though his profile, at this point, is pretty nothing. We do,
misc Bay Blogger Special: Nicks Invade The City Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held a swanky fete at her Russian Hill apartment to introduce folks around. Lots of familiar faces were there -- Nick Denton and fellow Gawker Media minion Boi
Arts & Entertainment Web Two Point Oh? So, of course, we were busy yukking it up with funnyman Merlin Mann last night at the Web 1.0 confab. Silly us, making fun of the 'monetizing,' 'paradigm shifting,' 'game
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
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
Arts & Entertainment Are You a VIP? Well, if you are, or just want to be, do we have the Craigslist job listing for you! Fashionistas, Style Mavens, Upper East Side transplants Do you know the difference between a Balenciaga
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Go! Team We headed over to Bimbo's last night with some degree of trepidation, since our favorite rock critic in the whole world, Kelefa Sanneh, had just described headliners the Go! Team as "a British
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
Arts & Entertainment Somebody Up There Likes Us Awwww. We're feeling all soft and snuggly after reading this sweet Gawker post that says kinda nice stuff about San Francisco! Apparently, a reader contacted them, requesting "more features about why San Francisco
