misc Photo du Jour 320 Photo by jimheid, found in SFist's Flickr pool Nothing makes a statement like a simple Scotch taped sign.
misc Bye Bye Bush A friend of SFist forwards along this picture, of the official photo of George W. Bush being taken down at the SF Federal Building early this morning. Bye, Dubya!
misc Week Around the Ists Photographed and discovered by Val Dodge Torontoist scoured Toronto to find the city's finest punny business names. Gothamist was stunned when a plane with failed engines landed safely into the Hudson River. All
misc Get This On Television Now With this week's slew of court filings, the post-Prop-8 fight for civil equality is still hot hot hot. And even though some of the 15-minutes-of-fame organizers may be losing focus, the pros aren't
misc Write for SFist Want to join the SFist team? Do you feel like you have something to say about San Francisco and the Bay Area that no one else is talking about? Are you painfully clever,
misc Today in San Francisco History - Passing of the notorious Countess Lola Montez Timecapsule: January 17, 1861 As was undoubtedly marked on your calendar, San Francisco's patron saint Emperor Norton died last week, January 7, 1880. But his was not the only January passing worthy of
misc Photo du Jour 317 Photo by Christopher Pepper Laughing Sal at the Musee Mechanique, which houses a vast collection of vintage mechanical games.
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. United States of Tara, one woman. Multiple personalities. Series premiere, Sunday at 10pm on Showtime. Samsung Omnia, bringing a
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Small Boy Defends Himself" Timecapsule: January 14, 1899 In this San Francisco Chronicle story from 1899, a North Beach street urchin defends himself in court. No, we don't know why he was allowed to act as his
misc Ask SFist: Inaugural Celebrations? So, you know what's-his-name will be our President in, oh, a few days, right? Well, SF is certain to be filled with parties, hooting, hollering, and spontaneous choreography breaking out in the streets,
misc Hulu Pulls Episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia We've heard is all the rage for those of you into relentless comedy (e.g., Arrested Development, Seinfeld, etc.), so this news might sadden you a bit. That is, if you don't already
misc BBB in...Malaysia? We were on vacation over the holidays (what, you didn't notice? Shame!), tooling around southeast Asia, and we saw the above. Who knew that everyone's favorite tourist show was doing spots on the
misc Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra Performs "Stairway To Heaven" Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra Plays Stairway to Heaven from Scott Beale on Vimeo. Scott Beale goes to all of the adorable geeky things we're too agoraphobic to attend. (Unless said events are at
misc Map of San Francisco Gay Porn Locations Just in time for your post holiday meltdown, The fine folks over at The Sword have conveniently packaged together a Google map (NSFW!) of public and semi-public locations that have been used as
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misc Photo du Jour 312 OK. We totally failed and posted an image from September of last year. Um, oops. So, anyway, yeah, to make up for it, here's a smurfy image of a forest creature shot by
misc Alexander Co. Books Window Display Shot by TUSK81. Flick photog TUSK81 came across this curious window display. He says: this really caught me off-guard. three books prominently displayed, two are by the president-elect barack obama, and the third
misc Week Around the Ists Image Credit: Flickr user bretneilson. Phillyist looked at J.C. Romero's controversial MLB suspension, bought a stranger a lap dance by accident, and started recruiting new writers, using a photo mash-up they're quite
