misc Memorize Those Two- and Three-Letter Words, Scrabulous Stays Put We've had to curb our games of Scrabulous since Phllyist's editor can't stop kicking our ass raw red at it since we no longer have time to play. But over the last few
Arts & Entertainment Web 2.0 Expo Is Here; Also, WTF Is Web 2.0? The west coast leg of the Web 2.0 Expo is here! Yay! Wait, just what is this Internet-y web 2.0 exposition, exactly? Aside from the open-bar fetes presumably laced with cocaine
SF News Man Handed Two-<del>Year</del> Month Prison Term For Selling Endangered Fish Online 27-year-old Danny Yep of San Francisco must spend two months in a federal prison and then four months in home confinement for selling the endangered Asian Arowana fish (AKA the Asian Boney tongue
SF News Layoffs II: San Jose Mercury News In more pink slip sadness today, (owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group) eliminated 50 jobs. Fifteen newsroom employees and 19 employees from "other parts of the paper" were let go today. Citing a loss
SF News SF Bay Guardian Wins Case Against SF Weekly With regard to the SFBG vs. SF Weekly (VVM) lawsuit -- you know, the one where the Guardian sued the Weekly and its parent company for predatory pricing practices? where the Guardian's Publisher,
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 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
SF News Tour Connected Bus: Vehicle of the Future While not all of us are fortunate enough to zip around in swank Aston Martins, or have sleek Tesla waiting for us on the horizon, the "bus of the future" is the next
misc From the SFist Inbox: <del>Buy Our Pants</del> SWF Looking Luring us in with "just the kind of quirky San Francisco event that SFist readers would be interested in," a PR company sent us word today of a zany pre-Valentine's Day activity that's
SF News Sunday's Scientology Protest And honk they did. Yesterday a worldwide Scientology protest took place by "Anonymous" (AKA Project Chanology, an Internet-based protest against the Church of Scientology), and we caught a few images of the action
misc Muni Citations: Now Slightly Less Awful Attention criminals: as of this week, your swashbuckling days of villainy and misbegotten Muni rides have become easy and breezy. Muni has "decriminalized" citations, which means that you won't have to go to
misc Net Neutrality Symposium at USF and on Your PC Come and see NN guru Tim Wu, Art Brodsky, Richard Clarke, Lawrence Spiwak, and a host of others. Why should you care about Network Neutrality? Here's why. Al Gore took the initiative in
SF News Wikipedia Redesign Rumors Afoot In the twee, crispy-haired words of Expose, "Season change/Feelings change." And with that we learn that one must accept change no matter what the cost, because it's not up to you, hearts
misc You Have Been Chosen to Recieve a Free Sony Vaio From Muni Okay, so why did we get an email from [email protected] that says "You've been chosen to recieve a free Sony Vaio" after signing up for Muni's mailing list? Well, unfortunately, it's
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 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 Ask a Librarian New feature alert, folks! Ever want to know more about your local library? Or anything about libraries of the world. The art of receiving a masters in library sciences? Or why people use
Arts & Entertainment Unfettered Journalism, Homonyms, Print Mixing Yesterday, David Hazinski attempted to harness the awesome power of the world wide web with this colonel of wisdom about the currant state of journalism. In his op-ed peace for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
SF News Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Alleged "Celebration" Did you know that the "North of Market Holiday Celebration" is coming up? Neither did we! And neither did the rest of the internet, because there's no mention of the (possibly-fictitious) event anywhere
SF News SFHomeless Yahoo Group Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous
SF News SFist Blotter -- In the 3600 block of Waterbury Court way down in San Jose last night, a double shooting left one man critically injured and another man dead. According to CBS 5, "no arrests
SF News Breakups, Facebook Style It seems the world of dating has moved beyond breaking up on post-its into the new world of breaking up via Facebook status. That's rough. Breakups are hard enough to go through without
SF News Cafe Flore Closing? The legendary Cafe Flore might find its way to the obit page of the B.A.R. soon. Why? Because if it doesn't "get permission to have the option to serve food 24
Arts & Entertainment Tasty & Affordable Darfur Fundraiser Well, this certainly rocks. Gina Pell, Internet-y type and founder of Splendora, just started a brand spanking new non-profit, Care Through Action. And their first event, happening next Wednesday, is a fundraiser for
SF News MISO Confused On a recent cab ride to the airport, we picked up the November issue of TODO: Little Guide. Big Town. for kicks. After scanning the restaurant, bar, and shopping guides, we came across
