Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
SF News SFist Tech Labs: If You Can Dodge a Virus, You Can Dodge a Ball In his FatBits blog on Ars Technica, John Siracusa gives his take on the new ads, one with which we agree. It's a good segue from the "Switch" campaign, no longer encouraging people
SF News SFist Tech Labs: The Revolution Will Be Podcasted The MacBook Pro has a new 17" model with a faster SuperDrive, an additional USB port, and the FireWire 800 port that's missing from the 15" version. So if you were holding off
Arts & Entertainment The Slightly Tardy Adventures of the Superfisters starts off with an argument between Knightbat and his teen sidekick, Nightbird, both of whom bear a blinding resemblance to another superhero duo (and we're not referring to Superhorse and Supermonkey). Like many
Arts & Entertainment Not Just Grown -- It's Homegrown! Boyskout, Midnight Serenade, and The F**king Ocean are playing, and SFist's absolute favorite DJ, Ted from BAGel Radio, will be spinning the iPod wheels like there's no tomorrow. Dors open Wednesday night
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: In Brief Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Vista operating system won't be released until January of next year (link from CNet news.com). Office 2007 is also delayed to come out in tandem with
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Cat Piss & The Man The story is from the Infinite Loop blog on Ars Technica, complete with dramatic clip art. The human rights violation in question concerns a Dutch MacBook Pro owner who'd posted a Flickr photoset
SF News Your Commute: Accidents Lots of accident-related news today. First off -- crank up "Livin' On A Prayer" because like Bon Jovi says, it's slippery when wet. A sudden downpour in Santa Clara led to 13 --
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Talking Trash and Breaking Promises Still, while we may be trash-talkers, we're not liars. A while ago, we swore that as soon as Apple released a Mac mini-based TiVo killer, we'd buy one. Luckily for us and our
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Sometimes When We Touch The rumor that started circulating last week is that Apple's new for-real-no-really-it's-happening-this-time-we-swear video iPod is going to have a larger (3.5-inch) screen that will incorporate a "virtual" click wheel on the screen
SF News SFist Tech Labs: One Billion Bucks in Their Pocket The reason why we're passing it along? For one thing, they're offering a full 4-year scholarship to a "world-renowned music school" (of Apple's choosing) in the grand prize-winner's name, which is a nice
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Broke What happened to all the gobs of money he raised last year? They all went into the Very. Special. Election, which shows just what a crazy, kamikaze-like move that last election was. He
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF News SchwartzenWatcher's Got Nothing So, this week we're going to operate on the principle of giving people what they want. And what do they want? Skeletons from Arnie's prodigious closet. Like this video of him in a
misc SFist Rants: Obsessing Over the iPod When we first bought it, we spent the entire weekend uploading our CDs on it. When we did that, we spent the better part of the next two weeks doing nothing but downloading
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you
Arts & Entertainment Hits From Hell Time on KFOG Welp, tomorrow is Friday the 13th which means it'll be "Hits from Hell" time on Dave Morey's 10 at 10. Or is it? On the KFOG site, Dave is asking for feedback and
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Speculate Different What actually happened was a little less earth-shattering, more a confirmation of what had already been announced. Apple's big push was the release of the first two Intel-based Macs: the iMac and the
SF News SFist Chuck: New Year's Revolutions Best Gadget of 2005 The iPod Nano. As pernicious as my gadget fetish is, I still get more than a little unnerved when people talk about consumer electronics using words like "sexy" and
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chuck Jordan You may also have noted a trend among new SFist contributors—they are not lovers of the Mission Burrito. Before you scream “un-SanFranciscan”! we’ll hasten to point out that Chuck is a
SF News SFist Tech Labs: They Also Make Computers We already mentioned ThinkSecret's post about a Mac mini-based home media hub, and it's also speculating on the content delivery system that device will use. AppleInsider is claiming that the company will expand
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple revolution
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
Arts & Entertainment Howard's End For the five of you who still listen to radio, the big question out there is who will replace Howard Stern. Howard, of course, is saying goodbye to free radio on December 18th
