SF News Jef Raskin, RIP The dean of Macintosh design, Jef Raskin, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Saturday in his home of Pacifica. A true visionary, he helped bring computing to the masses by thinking of new and
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
SF News Long Day's Journey Into WonderCon The first program we took in was a talk with some some guys who worked on the special effects for the Spielberg-directed War of the Worlds. The host promised the audience that they
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
Arts & Entertainment Snapping the Parade Hey photobloggers! Since you're bringing the digital camera downtown on Saturday anyways to defend your First Amendment rights on MUNI, don't forget to stop by and get some shots of the Chinese New
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Or Do We? Oh, it's a sad day for SFist. Not to encourage undue speculation, but it seems like we have all found better things to do than read this week. Is it that our online
Arts & Entertainment SFIndieFest: Scenesters and Mormons - One and the Same? At first we thought these folks seemed were milling around post opening-event . However, as they started seating for Sons of Provo, we realized that, finally, we were going to get to sit with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- East Bay Rats' Fight Night If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere between Mad Max and Edward Gorey. Rather than tricked-out Harleys with glitter
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF News Barely Legal Coeds in the Buff to Help Tsunami Victims Patrick of the Cal Patriot blog points out a rather risque effort by freshmen residents of Stanford's Larkin residence hall to raise funds for Tsunami victims -- fan out around campus, get naked,
SF News Get Ur Geek On Special Edition -- Warbussing EssEff We decided to take a day trip on the Muni. And now that we have our wireless card, we decided to warbus the city. Live blog updates after the jump. Ever since we
Arts & Entertainment Won't Somebody Think of the Children? Where do we even begin with this one? Like how when the episode aired years ago, it aired with an unblurry bottom. Or that the plot of one of the episodes that aired
SF News Remember When I Said I'd Kill You Last? I lied. Clemency has been denied in the pending excution of death-row inmate Donald Beardslee, and the first execution in California since January of 2002 should go on as scheduled tonight at 12:01am. The
SF News SFist Macworld Lunchbreak Because of the potentially inclement weather, we were confused as to where the meeting place would be. We tried Chevy's (hey, Jason, the hostess there wanted me to tell you that they only
Arts & Entertainment Hope On a chilly but still night on Ocean Beach, SFist and HiMY SYeD joined interested passerby in sending a message of hope to the victims of the Tsunami, assembling HiMY's message in luminaria
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
Arts & Entertainment A Shining Beacon of Democracy in the Blogosphere It's that time of year again -- time to buy breathmints and hide the carton of cigarettes that you drunkenly told your significant other that you would stop smoking as of New Years
misc Out (the Window) with the Old Year Well, we did a little better than the Chron on this one, but only slightly, since we got pictures. But we have to concur that the annual tradition of throwing calendar pages out
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited Question: where does one go if one were to celebrate the birthday of an Orchestra Conductor? Why the Tosca Cafe, of course! Last Tuesday, San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (that’s
SF News SFist Cares: Special Edition - Tsunami SFist Cares tries to focus on local issues and local charities. But when there are more than 44,000 people dead, thousands more missing, and millions homeless that's something that affects us not
SF News It's Raining Rain Ah, it’s raining today and for those of us working, nothing quite sums up the first day back after the holidays like it being grey and miserable outside. It looks like it’
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
