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The Adventures of a Videogame Rebel: Tim Schafer at Double Fine

Mouli Cohen, Local Techie, off to Jail for Scamming Investors to Support Ridiculously Lavish Lifestyle

A San Francisco entrepreneur, turned white-collar criminal has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison after he lied to Bay Area investors, telling them that Microsoft would be acquiring his company, Ecast Inc. A federal Grand Jury indicted Mouli Cohen, aka Samuel Cohen, last August, charg ... More >>

Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company

​Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>

Why Does Scream Sorbet Taste Just Like the Fruit in It? Science.

Ben NarasinScream Sorbet in a garden of mint.​When people say something tastes "like" something, they typically mean it tastes similar. Similar's not exact enough to describe how pure the seasonal flavors of Scream Sorbet taste. Scream's grapefruit sorbet is as clear a flavor of red grapefruit ... More >>

What Exactly Is a Tech Company?

​Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>

The SF Weekly Guide to Decanting Wine

Surely you can find something to do while the wine breathes​A former Microsoft technology guy, Nathan Myhrvold, is all over the Internet this week with a video showing that he believes the best way to decant wine is to use a blender. "Decanting is about doing two things," Myhrvold told Bloomb ... More >>

Permit-Free Bees, Tip Pooling, and Hot Sauce Bars: This Week in Food Bloggery

Albert Law/porkbellystudioFrom Albert Law's Rice Paper Scissors slideshow​ 1. If you ever want to start a fight in a bar in San Francisco, don't hit on somebody's partner. (Which is more likely to get you a three-way than bruised knuckles.) Tell them you think their favorite cafe sucks. W. Blake G ... More >>

Apple Can't Stop Amazon from Using "App Store"

Weren't apples famous before Apple?​In another case of the Silicon Valley giants butting heads, a federal judge denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon and its use of the term "App Store."Lawyers for Apple argued that the "Amazon Appstore for Android" name infringes on it ... More >>

New WiFi Hotspot in San Francisco? Bah Humbug!

This Just In: Radio-Wave-Borne Computer Messages Discovered In SF Office Complex​In Year's Deadest News Week, TV Reports There's WiFi in an Office ComplexThe week between Christmas and New Year's is the news businesses' deadest. Bureaucrats, politicians and business honchos aren't in their offices ... More >>

@sk Jamie Varon: I lied on my LinkedIn profile

This Just In: Radio-Wave-Borne Computer Messages Discovered In SF Office Complex​In Year's Deadest News Week, TV Reports There's WiFi in an Office ComplexThe week between Christmas and New Year's is the news businesses' deadest. Bureaucrats, politicians and business honchos aren't in their offices ... More >>

Tech Scene Rickroll: Then the Internet Ate Itself, and Exploded.

We've been discussing the emergence of a new species of meta-nerd here at SFWeekly.com; as this Paste Magazine infographic demonstrates, being cool in late 2009 means donning your "Three Memes One Shirt" shirt to work, interrupting your co-workers with "Im'ma let you finish ...," and/or buying your ... More >>

Worms in the Apple

Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

5 Products Probably Not Launching at the Apple Keynote Event

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Microsoft Patents Shallow, Potentially Hilarious Technology for Lonely People

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

GDC Announces Gears of War 2 in November

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

World Wide Telescope to Go Live Feb. 27

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Game Developers Conference this Week: Picks from the Conference Director

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Future Shock

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

LastNight: Murdoch, Tom, and MC Hammer: MySpace Party Notes

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

Bay Area's Apple #1 Among Nubile Sorority Girls, Slain Quarterbacks

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

Russian Sergey Brin and Google: A KGB-style Propaganda and Spying Machine?

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

Look! It’s Super Comics Guy!

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Malleable

With a new owner opening a mega-mall down the street, the future of the Metreon is uncertain. Will you miss it? Find out where you stand!

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

Back to the Future

The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

Agog Over Google

As a simple Internet search engine has grown into a billion-dollar tech behemoth, the question becomes: Is Google good? Take quiz, find out.

Light One Up

Burning Man regulars flip the switch

Sights, Seen

Obscure landmarks to love

Manifest: The Battle of Intergalactic Farces

Don't let the willful strangeness fool you: Serene Zloof is a talented actor

The Eleventh Time's the Charm

Our critic handicaps the latest installment of Noise Pop

Soft Firm

Too often, the S.F. law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein strikes settlements that give the firm millions of dollars in legal fees -- and its class action clients too little

Going Public

Venture Frogs

I Have a Dream 2.0

New Seybold upgrade brings ethics, privacy, adulation, salvation via Internet

South to the Future

E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave

The Luddite Eats

Paragon

Riff Raff

After Hours Clubs, John Vanderslice, Missing Apples at the Fillmore, and Jello Biafra

Silicon Valley Shakedown

A con man feeds on fear and paranoia in the software business

Riff Raff

O, Pioneers!, Lies! All Lies!, There Was a Riot Goin' On, But That's Over Now

An Endowed Chair

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Slap Shots

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Court of Temp Resort

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Chatterbox

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Slap Shots

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.