SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Silence of the Blogs What's that? Did you say something, Apple? Sorry, we weren't paying attention; we were too busy watching full-length movies on our Sony PSP's 4.3-inch widescreen. All the tech news and gossip sites
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Zeptointerest Apparently the rest of the world wasn't satisfied with our "look at how small it is" defense for the iPod nano, as they've gone and made Apple admit to the screen defect, prompting
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
SF News The EFF Takes Another Bite Out Of Apple We'd be remiss in our loyalty to vacationing SFist Jackson if we didn't celebrate the EFF's recent victory in the Apple v. Does case. As you might recall, the issue at stake is
misc SFist Raves: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle Put a brimful of Asha on your iPod ride! The Asha Bhosle who's name-checked by the Brit band Cornershop and is renown as the voice of Bollywood, has released a CD with San
misc Get Ur Geek On Special Edition Now, Rio will be allowed to continute producing their own products, but Rio's R&D department will basically be gutted and the valuable parts moved to SigmaTel. Why does this matter? Because
SF News Political Junkie: Starbuckses versus Pot Clubs Here we are, stepping blithely into Trimeth/Essefficist/SFist Tokes territory, to report that Supervisor Sean Elsbernd (no iPod) has announced that he's calling for a moratorium on pot clubs in the city,
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Gav Says/He's Done With Sergio The irrepressible Mr. P.J. Corkery asks the question on everyone's mind -- what's on Gavin Newsom's iPod? Well, after some hemming and hawing ("I don't have time to download 99 cent tunes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ono Hawaiian Grill We got there around 1:30, still a busy hour on a weekend, and sat down to wait; ten or fifteen minutes later, the spacy but sweet teenage hostess found us a table.
Arts & Entertainment Bono Makes Appearance At Glide Bono also spoke on the Pope, but graciously called Reverend Williams "The Pope of San Francisco." "Whenever this rock star is in the Bay Area, I have to visit Glide." About John Paul,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads or Something SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that there
misc Not Looking Good For Apple... ...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends
SF News If You Write It, They Will Com(pute) A side note: Leapfrog's website is pretty nicely done. Thank the talented kids at SF-based Evolution Bureau for that. There was no word at press time whether the Fly Pen can be used
SF News SFist Macworld Lunchbreak Because of the potentially inclement weather, we were confused as to where the meeting place would be. We tried Chevy's (hey, Jason, the hostess there wanted me to tell you that they only
SF News Macworld Rumors Abound on Internets Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad
SF News Get Ur Geek On - What We Want For Christmas Edition The Flash iPod has been rumored for a while now - in fact, it was speculated to come out before the iPod photo. Now we have more than a rumor we have an
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
Arts & Entertainment All You Need Are Yellow and Green Earbuds for the Burning Spear Edition [] Yesterday afternoon, Apple introduced a special edition iPod - we figured Steve Jobs might have iPod news hiding up his sleeve. The black and red U2 Special Edition comes with a poster and
SF News Co-creator Talks Smack About Mac It's the twentieth year of the Mac, and it's the twentieth year of Jef Raskin snarking on Steve Jobs. That's right, Mr. Raskin, one of the computer interface pioneers behind the original Macintosh,
SF News Sold on Solar Fossil fuels are sooo twentieth century. Crude oil is way over fifty bucks a barrel, a gallon of gas is nearly three dollars, there's a war raging in a country with the second
