SF News Cool Web Site Alert First up is one from fashion/design site Jargol. It's one of those Google map type thingies that let’s people know where to go for the "coolest" independent shops. Yeah, most of
SF News GooTube: Not Dead Yet It looks like all those Comedy Central videos are back, well most of them, on YouTube as Viacom and Google worked something out. And so ends the battle that led to a thousand
misc Craigslist Encounters: This "Crook"-ed Saga Continues Just as we were putting away the original Jason Fortuny Seattle Craigslist scandal, a copy-cat comes along and tries to run the same prank again. This time with "better" results (Better only in
SF News The Warriors: Opening night Dujuan Wagner, Adonal Foyle, and Zarko Cabarkapa are riding the pine in suits tonight. For the opposition Lakers, Kobe won't play, and Phil Jackson, Kwame Brown, and Aaron McKie, and Chris Mihm may
SF News Is This the Beginning of the End For GooTube? Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there
SF News Google Buys YouTube But what will this mean for those of us who like to peruse YouTube at work for things like Journey's "Separate Ways" video or the "Mah Nah Mah Nah" song when bored at
Arts & Entertainment Now YouTube Hates Our Freedom We would dismiss this as the usual Malkin-craziness, but she just might be onto something here. YouTube didn't really say why her video was banned and other YouTubers who are part of the
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
SF News Google: Okay, Now Maybe Doing A Little Evil To help them, they've hired as lobbyists two ex-Republican Senators, Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida. And on Wednesday, Google will take part in their first political fundraiser, for Republican
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Review Board We were getting ready to write yet another post about using Craigslist as a scapegoat for the evil Internet while blatantly ignoring all the good it serves. So we began the arduous task
SF News Nancy, Is That You? Even stranger: the blurb in question is only semi-coherent. It begins, "an illegal drug from mushrooms taken by people have stated that they experience behavior changes for weeks." Chew on that phrase, you
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Expansion Our little Craigslist is growing up! Craigslist went from around 200 to roughly 300 sites this last week with the addition of 97 new and exciting Craigslist locations. While a cynic might view
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
SF News Aidin Vaziri Over The Balcony! We've always wanted to be mischaracterized in a bullying fashion by the Chron's Pink Pages writer Aidin Vaziri! So Vaziri, on the SFGate's Culture Blog, pokes some gentle fun at us for posting
SF News Why Does Google Hate America? You know what this means, of course? That while the rest of us think Google is a once cute tech company now about to take over the world, full of fresh faced engineers
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Atlas Cafe But now dogs in the Bay Area have two, count ‘em, two monthly newspapers catering to their needs. The Woofer Times claims to produce 40,000 free papers per month distributed at over
SF News The NSA Wiretapping Scandal: Not Just For Phone Calls Anymore Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were
Arts & Entertainment We Have No Idea What Yvesdroppings Are Referring To Yes, we know that technically it should be "to what Yvesdroppings refer." Whatever. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl on Phone: "He wants to move to
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off
SF News EarthLink and Google Alliance Wins The San Francisco WiFi Race Next up: EarthLink and (less prominently) Google will begin contract negotiations with San Francisco. It's too soon to tell what the end result will be (unless you're Kimo Crossman, who hasn't been that
SF News Googling Gavin Go Chronicle! We were so pleased to see a piece of investigative local journalism on the front page of today's paper, as Verne Kopytoff digs into the relationship between Mayor Gavin Newsom and
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Deconstructing a Burgeoning Internet Phenomenon Apple Fires Employee For Having a Sense of Humor Apple once again shows how it "thinks different" by firing one of its customer service representatives for doing just that! An employee was fired
SF News You Are Here We at SFist are constantly on the search to make life better for you, and what could be better than flying like a superhero through our fave city via Google Earth, or racing
