SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot on the Cookie Trail. Cookies are humankind's single greatest creation. Brain surgery, motorized vehicles, the world wide web - all are helpless against the restorative power of the cookie. Surgeons forget to tie off a vein, cars
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
misc Craigslist Encounters: No more Craigslist for you! Who wants Craigslist? We do! We do! Unless, of course, we own a bunch of newspapers whose classified ad revenue is falling due to Craigslist kickin' its ass and happen to be an
misc Awesome New Feature! Just LOOK at how happy those lesbians outside City Hall are! (Despite the one on the right having what looks like a dislocated elbow.) They're celebrating SFist's brand new super fantastic orgasmotronic commenting
SF News Alien Duck Update They came in peace, they asked to be taken to our leader -- and it looks like our leader is online casino GoldenPalace.com. Remember that awesome picture of the duck with the
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
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 Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election Interview So we've moved up a notch on the news scale -- instead of just reading anti-Chris Daly position papers on the internet, we actually reached out to the candidates we could find with
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Pop's Bar Witness the explosive growth of SFist Friend and occasional contributor Ted Rheingold's dog-to-dog site dogster.com, a friendster imitation for pet owners over 30, single and childless (or just in an unhappy marriage)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Because No One Should Have to Go To LA Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint of game news. There's plenty of coverage all over the place, in particular GameSpot's media blitz and Joystiq's ongoing blog updates, dealing with
SF News Cody's No More Was it something we said? First there was the dispiriting news about Clean Well-Lighted's sale, and now the Chron reports that the flagship Cody's Books on Telegraph is closing, after 43 years. NO!
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
SF News Down Goes Barry, Down Goes Barry It looks like Bud Selig's Barry Bonds voodoo doll is working as last night, before the Giants 2-0 victory over the Brewers, Barry was bonked on the head by a foul ball in
Arts & Entertainment Are We Too Old To Be Part Of The Digital Generation? Find Out Tomorrow Night. A panel including New Jewish Filmmaking Project's Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon, Youth Sounds' Erica Eng, and TILT's Tina Bartolome (TILT) will discuss how "media, culture, and education influence the way youth tell
SF News Craigslist Encounters: On The Warpath We didn't expect a Craigslist Encounters entry would ever quote Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, but then again, we didn't think that Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster would ever need to quote scripture to
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
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 Craigslist Encounters: Hot Or Not? Recently, a lot of discussion has been going on about Craigslist design. From magazines to blogs, blogs, and more blogs, people have been weighing in with on question of whether Craigslist design is
SF News Bust out your high-tops For millions of fans and office pool players, and even the uninitiated, the month of March is all about college basketball. The women's tournament and the NIT are part of the tasty delight
SF News Election Woes Well, it's not quite Bush stealing Florida or anything, but due to circumstances out of our control, the previous Gavin-Sofia couple name election has hit some woes -- it looks like the polling
SF News Craigslist Encounters: How Much For That Scary Dolly In The Window? Craigslist trollers, such as us, oftentimes wonder how much thought goes into these values. For some goods, such as cars and baseball cards there are places to get rough estimates. But what about
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Love Edition If you haven't booked your Valentine's Day restaurant reservations yet, you're in trouble. Lucky for you, our local theater companies have shows much more unique than prix fixe menus anyway. From improv to
