misc Bomb Scare at Bayer Building in Berkeley Berkeley police responded to a menacing looking suitcase sitting in front of a Bayer AG-owned building on Seventh Street between Dwight and Parker. Jackson West informs us that said drug company has "its
misc Film du Jour: Gov't Infected Water in NorCal This lady knows all about the rainbow connection. Watch it for a good chuckle. (Thanks Zach Behrens!)
misc Photo du Jour 193 Photo by mikedthorn found in SFist's Flickr pool. Patrons waiting patiently inside Bi-Rite Ice Cream Shoppe Creamery. (Word is the salted caramel is worth the wait.)
misc Day Around the Bay Gumball Rally 3K in review. Vroom. (More images from said car chase to come on SFist tomorrow!) [WhatImSeeing] Greg Dewar answers your mail. [NJudah] Condo developers threaten future of Japantown festivals. [Curbed] Clinton
misc American Football Spectacular: Spikes To You Well, the 49ers signed free agent LB Takeo Spikes over the weekend. That's good. A former first-round pick for Cincinnati, Takeo's tale has become one of derailed potential. He was once well-within the
misc <del>Hemp, Paper or Plastic</del> God, Please Don't Make Us Use Reusable Grocery Bags Ugh. This. Soooo, we don't carry a reusable, hemp-made, greener-than-thou bag when we shop for kitchen staples at our local grocer. Horrifically, we prefer plastic and/or paper bags. (After all, they're new!
misc Traffic Woes The author of the recently published Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) is on the west coast at this very minute doing "lots of media"
misc Gumball Rally 3000 <del>Gals</del> Ladies Image of "GirlsposeFrawggy" by kapshure We have more images from last weekend's star-studded Gumball 3000 Rally thingamajig - Willie Brown! Knight Rider! A baby! - even though we're still not quite sure why
misc Photo du Jour 192 Happy Olympics! (Oh, and did you see Zhang Yimou's reimagined opening ceremonies on Friday? That was some critically-acclaimed, chin-scratching, fun-because-Bush-seemed-confused entertainment. Agreed?)
misc Week Around the Ists Chicagoist snapped up some stunning images and a severe summer storm. LAist is still on the health beat. After following the regional city ban on new fast food restaurants, the county is proposing
misc Photo du Jour 190 The Hoff kickin' it outside the Gumball 3000 Rally, which started yesterday. For more images, go here.
misc American Football Spectacular: You Can't See Me * San Francisco vs Oakland Saturday, August 8, 7:00 PM PST Preseason Week 1 The Unseen Battle It's here. The NFL preseason is finally here for the Bay Area. But, unless you've overpaid
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. , the #1 premium vodka from the land where vodka was born. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just
misc 8-8-08 = Lucky Wedding Day An auspicious day for the Asians, especially for Chinese, and here's a pic of two newlyweds getting married on one of the luckiest days of the year. According to AP: Jean Liu and
misc <i>Hot Bay Area Olympians:</i> Ben Wildman-Tobriner (By Joe Kukura) The 2008 Olympics kick off tonight, and SFist is all over it! We mean, like, really disgustingly all over it -- as in, people are going to be talking behind
misc China Consulate Acrobats Face Federal Charges Oakland resident Brihannala Morgan, 26, and Suisun City resident Nyendak Wangden, 22 - the two ladies who climbed up the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, with the latter dame falling 15 feet after
misc What's Going On Here, Film Crew? According to Flickr user Exxonvaldez, the film crew for the shoot above demanded all passersby not to snap any images of the filming procress. Of course, we then had to post the above.
misc Muni's Making Big Route Changes, and We've Un-PDFed the Details Or you could just jump over to our Flickr stream; we downloaded all 82 of them for you, un-rotated the sideways ones, converted them to JPEGs, and put them into a nice little
misc Tales Of Mere Existence "Blank" "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz Z.O.T. Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http:
misc Manicures on Muni: Y/N? While not nearly as rude as an uncovered sneeze, a loud phone conversation (unless it involves a girl crying over matters of the heart, which is a richly satisfying eavesdrop), a protruding backpack,
misc Day Around the Bay 12 Galaxies to close its doors for good. [Eater, via SFW] Cindy Sheehan still using her dead son's blood as a vehicle for personal stardom needs your signatures for something. [SFBG] LA Times'
misc Football Is Nearly Upon Us: 49ers Training Camp Intrigue (By Joe Kukura) Leadership voids -- who's gonna fill 'em? Leadership voids are the only thing these 49ers know for sure they have. Sure, Patrick Willis has a fucking "S" on his chest.
misc Cinematic Titanic Sails On Check out the trailer below, then skip over to EZ Takes to download the episode. We've had some issues with their downloady software on our Mac, so if you have your choice of
