SF News Yahoo to Jailed Journalist's Mom: "Um, Sorry" House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos threw down some serious shade today. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," he cried, shaming two senior Yahoo officials. Why? Because
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After -KTVU, the home of the Giants since Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue will no longer be the non-cable channel that shows Giants game. That duty now falls to KNTV, channel 11 (the
Arts & Entertainment BREAKING NEWS: Some Disabled People Have Sex A warning: Let's just assume that all of the links in this post are gloriously NSFW. We're told that the upcoming Berkeley-area show is "hot activism," which sounds awesome, except that it's what,
SF News Go Blackle™ Yourself Australia's Heap Media created Blackle™, a Google-powered search engine that provides Internet users with an environmentally-friendly alternative to search engines that use an energy-hogging white background. Apparently, having a black background saves a
SF News High Nerd Concentrations = Top Blogging Markets Who knew? According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of
misc Now Here's Something We Never Saw Coming We have to say that this certainly puts Phineas Nigellus's quote about Dumbledore in "Order of the Phoenix"-- "you know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannot deny
SF News We Suspect that this Film was Secretly Financed by the Exploding Fake Blood Packet Industry Ho hum. The outside-of-Tahoe location looks pretty, at least. And WTF is up with Atom's videoplayer not letting you fast-forward? Those four minutes of stewing just gave us extra time to think up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews András Schiff Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Seinfeld Was In Town? Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Jerry Seinfeld was in town the other day, presumably to promote his upcoming film (why on a cable car, though? Is there an SF
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
SF News Get A Job He has a nifty tech job. Do you? No? Well, then: -- Web Developer [Apex Systems, Inc.] -- Internet Coordinator [Williams-Sonoma Inc.] -- Java Developer [TEKsystems] -- Flash Designer [Syndero] - Lead UI
SF News Coitus Interruptus for Good Vibrations According to the Chronicle, "revenue this year is likely to end up $3 million short of the $13.9 million they had projected. They are seeking a $500,000 line of credit to
Arts & Entertainment Peeping Tom Wants Smut Returned Really, who would nowadays? And more to the point, who prefers videos and magazines to the clean and ease of blue footage found on l'Internet? Unless his collection holds some priceless and rare
misc "Whore Alert" on MySpace You see, links like this serve one purpose. Even though we know that the internet is primarily for porn and reading SFist, there are evil people out there who want to steal your
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother 8, Jews, Jesus, Big Noses, and Disclaimers It's no secret that we adore -- that's right adore -- watching Big Brother, especially this season. If you're not familiar with BB, it's like this: twelve Type A personalities get locked in
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SF News SFGov Haunted by Ghost of Ma Despite having left the Board of Soups back in January, Ms. Ma's official SFGov webpage lingers on, like your one friend from back home who kept hanging out at the high school after
Arts & Entertainment Mass Of New Bat Segundo Interviews Include Berkeley Breathed Two-Parter! Holy Cow, Bat Segundo! What do you mean you moved to Brooklyn?!? Gah. A podcast that's truly fun, quirky, and valuable for fans of literature, this pseudonymously produced program made its home base
SF News Digg and Microsoft, Sittin' In a Tree, A-D-V-E-R-T-I-S-I-N-G Hey, remember our friends at local Internet innovator, Digg? We talked in brief with the founder, Mr. Kevin Rose, a little while back. Well, according to a press release issued by Microsoft Corp.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 4.2 tremor slightly moves the Bay Area, donuts. [Chron, Yahoo, Examiner, FCJ] -- Ron Russell on Chron business writer David Lazarus' new LA Times gig. [The Snitch] -- One Rincon Hill
Arts & Entertainment To Ski or Not to Ski: Craigslist Code Cracked While it's no longer the biggest secret that on Craigslist, and elsewhere on l'Internet, the hapless verb "to ski" has become synonymous with "to do fresh, energizing, powdery lines of flake." In order
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chris Daly walks out of today's Board meeting after colleagues show no support [UPDATE: or he merely went to go tinkle]; looks stunning sporting a beard and purple tie. [CUIP] -- Stephen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
SF News It's All-Star Time Of course, it wouldn't be any sort of baseball event in the city without it becoming, at some point, not about the Giants or about the ballpark or baseball, but about Barry. First
SF News Fireworks-Related Injury To Punk Band Drummer At Dolores Park Yesterday Sorry, folks -- we've been sitting on this one because we wanted to make sure it was true . .. and then the Chronicle beats us to it (as they rightly should). At least we
