misc Photo du Jour John Ponta struggles with his umbrella as he walks to the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
misc Day Around the Bay Gascón's hair translates nicely to cartoon form in Susie Cagle's SF: SFPD Seems More Confident Than Ever [SFAppeal] We didn't realize Lars Ulrich had a role in Hemingway & Gellhorn. The Metallica drummer
misc Comparing Ancient Rituals "The court could say the state's interest would outweigh the free exercise of religion: If I'm an Aztec and my religion says I must go up on top of a high, pointed building
misc Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 16th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
misc Morning Links Day by Day Transbay gives you all the experience of working in a building adjacent to the dismantled Transbay Terminal, without all that annoying racket. [DayByDayTransbay] Meanwhile, in Hayes Valley: Proxy - the
misc Turns Out Penguins Can Fly (On Southwest) [Adorable Video] On a recent Southwest flight, a couple of penguins headed from SFO to San Diego for a SeaWorld show (presumably to be in it, not to watch it) suddenly found themselves free to
misc Vallejo Man Jumps Railing, Becomes Stuck in Mud Yesterday, a grown man of 36 years of age had to be rescued from waist-deep mud by the Vallejo Fire Department after he jumped over a railing lining a waterfront promenade along the
misc Microsoft Kills the Zune, That One Weird Guy on the Bus is Bummed Bloomberg reported yesterday that Microsoft won't be cranking out any new versions of their somewhat popular Zune media player, which means the boys in Redmond didn't quite reach their goal of breaking Cupertino's
misc Morning Links In City News: Will Nat Ford actually be leaving for DC or what?Tune in tomorrow to find out. [Spoiler alert: SFMTA is already working on a succession plan.] [SFEx] Speaking of the
misc A Mea Culpa of Sorts "It is very possible to make a fool of me (not a stretch). I can't check for accuracy of overhearing, so I have to trust contributors' accuracy. I can't check to make sure
misc Morning Link Drizzle Two members of that group of punks that attacked a 47-year old man on Caltrain and left him in critical condition were busted using the victim's credit card to buy pizza and booze.
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Audio Time-Lapse of a Baby Learning the Word 'Water' This presentation from the 2011 TED conference last week has been going around, featuring MIT researcher Deb Roy describing "the ultimate memory machine," a data set containing some 90,000 hours of video
misc Saturday Afternoon Roundup iPad 2 re-sale racket digitally documented [YMFY] Chronicle Editor-at-Large and former foreign war correspondent Phil Bronstein goes on his most dangerous assignment yet: a Friday night patrol in the Mission with the Guardian
misc This Week in Willie Brown Nowhere in his scribblings and keyboard poundings (or, more likely: dictations) this week did Willie Brown mention Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's lavish CrabFest that irked him the other day. That's kind of disappointing because
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Homewood Mountain Resort. Ski season is ending! Order online and get great ski deals and spectacular views of Lake
misc John Madden Describes the Surf from Carmel In today's most unnecessary Tsunami report: Super Bowl commentator and video game voiceover artist John Madden gives a brief play-by-play of the surf near Carmel where "the waves were pretty big, but now
misc Morning Link Flotsam Keep your eyes on SFist's continuing Japan earthquake and tsunami coverage for the latest updates.. San Francisco's Tsunami Inundation Map shows us which neighborhoods would be underwater in the case of an extreme
misc What's Going on Here, Mr. Lew's Win-Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium? Our friends on the Tenderloin Beat sent in this photo of what appears to be a new cocktail store in the same quaint style as say - Bourbon & Branch or one of
misc An Alternative Solution to Vallejo's Hooker Problem Over at the national edition of Curbed they're taking a look at surprisingly nice homes for sale in bankrupt towns across America - and that includes our neighbor to the Northeast with the
misc Keith Olbermann Says Charlie Sheen is Acting Like Brian Wilson Or maybe Brian Wilson has been acting like Charlie Sheen all along? It's hard to tell where the actors end and where the baseball players begin in this post-World Series, post-Academy Award media
misc Adorable Thing for Today: The San Francisco Zoo's Baby Koala The Zoo's baby Koala has emerged! She's been hiding, as marsupials do, in her mother's pouch for the past six months. Use that fact to make yourself seem smart when you show this
misc Morning Links (for Regularity) Forecast says it might rain today. The weather looks nice from where we're sitting, but you know how these things go. [SFAppeal] Kill your Pandora account and just leave this on in the
