Sasha dishes the news about TechConnect -- RFP deadline went by without so much as a press conference. Big news is that Google and Earthlink have teamed up, and that Houston's recent WiFi RFP was made public (The City threatened to sue when theirs was leaked). Francisco De Costa claims a victory after the public forum on Bayview redevelopment. San Jose Inside's Single Gal takes a look at the six folks who want Ron......

First, a little politics. Nancy Pelosi calls for the declassification of her memo to the administration regarding secret surveillance of American citizens. Ann Harrison has an exhaustive first-person account on the recent medical marijuana dispensary raids. Executive Editor Chris Lopez softens the "Wiretap Scandal" headline at the Contra Costa Times. And Dan Gillmore is going non-profit and creating a Center for Citizen Journalism along with Cal Berkeley and Harvard, causing some to ask whither......

Oh, so much geekery, we're gonna do this bullet-style. Shall we get started? Jeb Bush dropped by EA's Tiburon studios and was treated to a simulation of himself in Madden 2006. Sadly, he's not in the real game, so you can't lay him or Dubya out with a virtual Ray Lewis.Kevin Smokler points us to CNET's list of the top ten dot-bombs. Thankfully, we didn't work for any of them, so you can't blame......

First off, we just found out via Craiglist about a wharehouse party tonight featuring The Wildlife, barbarasteele, Joel Gion's The Dilettantes and Six Eye Columbia. They tell us to "Bring some champagne and come and dance." Sounds like a fine time! 9pm at 58 Natoma, $5 at the door. Tomorrow are two hip happenings -- first is the 10th annual Books By the Bay, an outdoor event at the Yerba Buena Center for the......

Well, if you didn't win those passes to the Amusement Parks on Fire show, you can still win passes to Friday's show featuring The Futureheads. Or... You can check out one of SFist absolute favorite musical acts ever, Illadelphia's "The Roots" perform tonight at the Grand at the Regency Center. Tickets aren't cheap (and if they're sold out, check Craigslist if you 'Need tickets. Tickets. Anybody need tickets'). Another one of our favorite musical......

Friend of SFist Kevin Smokler is celebrating the release of his new anthology, "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times." By book lovers, for book lovers. Contributing authors Michelle Richmond, Adam Johnson, K.M. Soehnlein and Paul Flores will also be on hand to celebrate. A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Books, Van Ness between Turk and Golden Gate, 7pm. SFist Krissy recommends the Bloc Party show at the Fillmore, but alas, it's sold out (check......

In the "Lengths Writers Will Go To Promote A Book" department, Tom Dolby, author of The Trouble Boy, submitted to an SFist grilling. And by grilling we mean a nice, spicy rub-down followed by a slow, low-temperature smoke. Because Tom is a native of The City, and successful in New York, so we can't really be all that hard on him. As part of local literary impresario Kevin Smokler's "Virtual Book Tour," Tom will......

It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's beats, nibbling on tidbits from the trays of finger food and stuffing our bag with schwag at the Creative Commons party last night. Intellectual property lawyers sure know how to party! Lawrence Lessig, everyone's favorite copyright law reform advocate and Stanford law......

Many of us here at SFist rode the crest of the dot.com bomb to the very, very bottom. Very few of us managed to come to the Bay at the bottom and then climb up. Contributor Kevin Smokler is one of those lucky folks who after a stint at a video store ran into an acquaintance from elementary school and landed a new job. He is currently working on anthology of essays. Oh, and......