Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk Has Stopped Discussing Theories Of An AI-Simulated Universe While In Hot Tubs Here's a little break from the election and the apotheosis of the Chicago Cubs: Vox made this video summarizing Elon Musk's (and others') theory that we are, all of us, our doughnuts, delusions,
Arts & Entertainment Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready, Nerds: Actual Lightsaber Fencing Competition Coming To SF Did you know that a "sport" involving lightsaber "combat" has come into being in Europe and that there were now dork-filled lightsaber "battles" with actual rules and winners? Yep. If you've tired of
SF News Space Nerds Launch McMoon's, A Control Center In A Defunct McDonald's To Hijack A Decommissioned NASA Satellite A group of space enthusiasts in Mountain View, California, with cooperation from NASA, have taken control of a 36-year-old decommissioned satellite that was originally put into orbit to study solar weather. The ISEE-3
SF News Silicon Valley Exec Found Guilty Of Stealing LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a VP at software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, has been convicted of running an elaborate scam to steal LEGO toys from local Target stores. It is quite possibly the white
Arts & Entertainment World's First LGBT Gamer Convention Comes to S.F. This Weekend The gaming world is full of dicks, and not in a good way. Gay guys and women (especially women) aren't typically welcome within this fascinating world of digital dorkdom. (Your SFist editor's own
Arts & Entertainment LEGO To Make Mars Curiosity Rover In Ultimate Nerd Dream Crossover Rejoice, interlocking block enthusiasts and fans of infamous NASA mohawk guy: LEGO has just announced that it will be producing a Mars Curiosity Rover replica that children and lovable nerds can erect in
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Best Word Ever Is Diphthong Some nerds got together, via the blog Questionable Skills, and just went through the dictionary and created a sports-style bracket for every letter of the alphabet, trying to determine the best words in
SF News Behold, Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Here Google's Cheryl Pon's hands show off apps on the new Google Nexus 7 tablet, which was introduced last week at the Google I/O conference at Moscone Center. (Side note: If you
SF News After Gay Co-Founder Gets Hitched, Facebook Adds Adorable Same-Sex Marriage Icons To Timeline Blessed be the July 4th week news dump. Let's see, so far we've got TomKat and aliens, Anderson Cooper (finally!) coming out as gay, and now we have news that the fine folks
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giant QR Code Painted On Facebook Headquarters' Rooftop Facebook honeybees recently painted a 42 foot wide QR code on the roof of the company's new headquarters in Menlo Park. Ta-da. Laughing Squid points out, "The QR code arose when CEO Mark
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The New iPad Unboxing Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach
Arts & Entertainment Using The Force, SFist Attends Lightsaber Training School When we first caught word that San Francisco had its very own lightsaber training school, two thoughts popped into our heads: First, "Ha! Look at those nerds!" Followed by, "...so where can I
Arts & Entertainment Discover Your Force At Lightsaber Training School Using LED Lucasian swords, the Golden Gate Knights teach lightsaber courses each week in San Francisco. Headed by a former choreographer for George Lucas' Star Wars films, the classes (for kids-at-heart 17 and
Arts & Entertainment Sidewalk 'Star Trek' Etching Found on 7th Avenue Chase Tingley came across this sharp piece of Star Trek sidewalk art along 7th Avenue, between Irving and Hugo "in some guy's driveway," in San Francisco. The etching was created by David Fisher.
SF News Black iPhone Smaller Than White iPhone Debunking locker room stereotypes, we're getting word that the black iPhone isn't as big as the white iPhone (the latter of which recently became available at your nearest Apple store). NBC Bay Area
SF News Apple Now More Profitable Than Microsoft It is done. A new victor emerges from the ashes of our modern day Catholics v. Protestant war. After a bloody feud spanning decades, Apple has now proven victorious over Microsoft, profit-wise. TechCrunch
SF News Steve Jobs Won't Return To Apple, Says Slate Aside from publishing what history will look back on as the single most misguided and thoughtless arts & entertainment article ever written, we almost always respect Slate. So when they post a piece
SF News Meet Your Bay Area MacArthur Fellows The MacArthur Foundation named 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2010 today. That is to say, 23 smartypants learned from the Foundation that they will each land a cool $500,000 in "no strings attached"
SF News New Dating Site Helps Mac Brethren Find Love Did you breakup with your girlfriend because you, an iPhone user, couldn't handler her Metro PCS lifestyle? Fear not, Apple zealots, because Mel Sampat, a noted Microsoft employee (!), created a site just for
Arts & Entertainment Mrs. Vera's Massive Marvel Comic Book Sale, Saturday, 1/30 From what little your editor knows regarding the sexy world of comic books, we had heard about a divide between Marvel Comics and DC Comics fans similar to that of the Catholics verses
SF News Dark Matter Matters There is a 75% chance that physicists analyzing tests results from a Minnesota mine found dark matter particles. The rumored substance is believed to make up 80% of the universe, but heretofore evaded
misc Nerd Alert! It's Odd Day Nerds the world over are reveling in the fact that today, 5/7/09, is the third of 6 days this century in which the date happens to be made of three odd
SF News Mars Phoenix Lander Lands On the Internets, Twitter In case any slimy, green Maritans appear, brandishing pointy laser guns--and all experts agree that there will be--keep track of them and the Mars Phoenix Lander on Twitter. It's scheduled to land on
