SF News Marissa Mayer engaged Exemplary fag hag to many lucky homosexuals, Google VP multi-millionaire and Four Seasons resident Marissa Mayer is currently engaged. At least, so says the rumor mill. According to Valleywag, she's getting hitched to
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
misc For Your Convenience: San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate Video Map We just got word about something cool. Well, cool insofar as local politics is cool, which? Not so much. But for those of you confused by who is up for what in which
misc Donations to Yes-On-8 are Accidentally Going to Tasteful Gay Erotica Update: Complaints about the content of ads can be sent to Google here. The "people" behind Prop 8 -- the anti-marriage amendment -- may or may not be up to something sneaky. We
SF News Will G1 Kill the iPhone Star? Probably not. The new G1, which was unveiled today, takes aim at Apple's popular (and, arguably, somewhat cloying) iPhone. The Google phone offers you a slideout keyboard (not a clumsy touchpad), can download
SF News Chrome Has Arrived Oh my word. Google, who can do no evil, released their new open source browser today. It's called Chrome. Have you downloaded it? No? Then, if the mood should strike, do so here.
SF News Google Street View Captures Image of Burning House, Moves Along According to Nicholas Carlson at Valleywag, Google Street View captured a nifty shot of a burning home while riding through some place called Eagle Point Drive in some magical land called Sherwood, Arkansas.
misc Google's Street-Level Team is Out There... We were out running this morning, and caught a weird site cruising up Masonic. A bright red Toyota Prius with what looked like a conning tower on top. We followed it for nearly
misc Behold the Google Office Toilet Made by Toto (no, not this Toto, but a swank Japanese company) , Google employees at their California offices can release their urine and evacuate their bowels like space-age kings using this ultra-modern and
misc Photo du Jour 149 Some pig-- you heard us, ! -- had the unmitigated gall to go against the express wishes of Google. The nerve! Driving a Prius (oh, of course it was a Prius), some poor Google
misc Google Relieves Your Muni Frustrations Unfortunately, for just about any trip we could think up, the driving times were always dramatically shorter than the transit times, so this isn't exactly encouraging people to give up their cars. Le
SF News Forbes Big Bounty of Bay Area Billioniares Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates
SF News Day Around the Bay Um, why haven't we been nominated for Pink Brick Award yet? Pft. [BAR] Brace yourselves, the Google invasion beings March 3rd. [Curbed] SFBG vs. SF Weekly jury deliberates. Wee. [SFBG] Grapefruit, much maligned.
SF News SF Homeless are Cooler Than the Homeless in Other Cities Perhaps in our over-cellular phone'd society, we overlooked the importance of having a way for people to reach us. Google recognized the need for the homeless to have some connection to loved ones
misc Daniel Day Lewis' Earrings Prove Too Much for Oscar Audience Last night, around 10 p.m. after the Academy Awards, the world was concerned about three things: the Oscar-winning documentary , a piano-playing pop/rock singer-songwriter, and Daniel Day Lewis' sexuality. We're guessing no.
misc You Do Not Tube Remember the great Youtube outage of 2006? Horribly, it seems to have returned. Can you access the site? We can't. Multiple theories are popping up -- generally, hackers or incompetent cyber-Mohammedans are getting
misc SFist Plays Professor Layton and the Curious Village Do you remember classic brainteaser puzzles like the one where you have to put wolves and chickens on rafts, but only in certain combinations? Or the one where you have to draw things
SF News $44.6 Billion for Yahoo, Says Microsoft In an attempt to slow Google's fierce roll, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to purchase Yahoo Inc. for a cool $44.6 billion today. Gulp. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that his company
SF News Day Around the Bay Dear sky: Please stop raining. You're being a jerk. Sincerely, everyone. [SFGate] The Palms defended. Sort of. [Curbed] Weeeee: Q4 earnings fell at Google. [SFGate] Although all of their hair currently looks like
misc Google Maps Street View Sees All LA-based comedy troupe The Vacationeers fears Google Maps Street View Big Brother-ness. And ever since we saw a shot of our bedroom window on it, featuring our awful interior decor, so do we.
misc Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BART (but You Aren't Allowed to Know About Muni) Muni declined to comment when we asked them why they weren't participating. So we'll have to assume it's because their engineers are already in way over their heads; and nobody there has any
misc San Francisco's 4th Annual Walk for Life, Counter Demonstration Didn't seem as contentious as in years past. Read IndyBay's take on it and see some photos if you want. Speaking of photos, we've got ten more after the jump. See you there.
misc The Re-Wirelessing of San Francisco After EarthLink and Google gave up on high-speed networks that would have seen San Francisco gain access to free wireless service, Meraki Networks Inc. is now taking a stab at it. Financially backed
misc Day Around the Bay The Pope, Linda Blair, and the Vatican’s "exorcist-in-chief." [BeyondChron] SF park improvement ballot measure benefits few. [Curbed] Macworld Keynote 2008 predictions form contest. Very nice. [Laughing Squid] The Chicken McNoggin and other