SF News Google in Space! Also as part of the agreement, Google and NASA will be sharing information and knowledge and are even talking of co-habitating. According to a spokesman, all this will "soon allow every American to
SF News Street Map of FastPass Vendors Created by Heroic Secret Underground Resistance Y'see, if you want to find out where FastPasses are sold, Muni won't show you a map of locations -- instead, they provide a text-only list of vendors, sorted by their zip codes.
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Raiders Might Finish 2006 As Number One! After losing horrifically to the Houston Texans 23-14 in a home game where the dauntless Raider Power Mullet defense limited Yoostun to 32 yards passing yards and -5! Negative five yards net passing
Arts & Entertainment The Gothamist Adventures of the Superfisters After two issues, "Pirates" is shaping up to be a really gorgeous book, with a sort of headstrong style that reminds us of Jamie Hewlett (the artist for Gorillas and Tank Girl). Rival
SF News Cool Web Site Alert First up is one from fashion/design site Jargol. It's one of those Google map type thingies that let’s people know where to go for the "coolest" independent shops. Yeah, most of
SF News The Great Outdoors: El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve First off, let's clarify the name. It may be El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (ECM) on the maps, but in the hearts and minds of locals, it's known as Skeggs, which
SF News Driver Hitting Pedestrians The police caught a driver in a black Honda SUV in Laurel Heights, at Laurel and California Streets, where he'd hit two people (one who died). A child was also struck and suffered
SF News SFist Tourist Short answer? We have no idea. All we know is that tourists do what they do, because they are told to and some of it looks like it actually is fun. In the
SF News 4.7 Quake on Calaveras Fault Anybody else feel the seismic alarm clock go off this morning at 5:24? A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Calaveras Fault, centered approximately six miles from San Martin, California. It was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
Arts & Entertainment City CarShare's Old Enough to Start Kindergarten Happy birthday to you! City CarShare (it's basically a membership-based car rental program with extra perks) turns five this year, and they're throwing a party and giving out awards. Nancy Pelosi will be
SF News The Cala Bell Tolls for Thee So we asked the cashier, as they rang up our Stoli and cardamom, OMFG WTF BBQ? Nobody knows for sure, but the Cala folks predicted that after the store closes for good on
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
SF News You Are Here We at SFist are constantly on the search to make life better for you, and what could be better than flying like a superhero through our fave city via Google Earth, or racing
SF News Shake Shake Shake Man -- we were so distracted this morning with that spam attack that we totally missed the earthquake! Two quakes rumbled through the area this morning, around 11:30 a.m. The first
Arts & Entertainment The Feminine Adventures of the Superfisters Especially after the introduction of the suave Captain Claudio, "PatP" might have been a heady bodice-ripper. But Polly's age -- she's 12 -- keeps things innocent and fun, with Polly relying on her
SF News Shake It A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Hercules area of the East Bay around 10 a.m. this morning. But we didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, how about you? This report
SF News Google, Take Me Away Our heart skipped a beat when we heard that some collaborative Twenty-Percent-Time at Google was being devoted to creating transit trip planners. We haven't bothered using the loathsome transit.511.org for a
SF News Phil Ting Wins The Crown Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV
SF News We Like NextBus and We Cannot Lie http://www.nextbus.com/googleMap/test.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=31 Most buslines aren't on the system yet; if you enter a line that isn't wired, then the "Initializing Agency" message simply
SF News Good Enough for Government Work Hey, did you know that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority is thinking about speeding up transit on Van Ness by putting in dedicated bus boulevards? BUT WAIT DON'T CLICK ON THAT LINK
Arts & Entertainment A Statement of Hope and Courage Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink O to Zed Somewhere deep in the Tenderloin you can find a secretive wooden door, sometimes marked by 'Daddi-Dee' waiting to see if you'll bum him a cigarette or slide him a note. The journey through
SF News Service Cuts: The Only Thing MUNI's Good At Don't get us wrong: we love NextBus, especially the new integration with Google maps. NextBus is the only thing about MUNI that seems to work, and when you consider that it's actually run
