Links for your weekend:

• Sen. Boxer is leading both Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore by leads outside of the margin. Chuck Devore is pretty pumped about this, because he’s one point closer to Boxer than Fiorina.  Woohoo, an accomplishment!  If you’d like some photos and interesting tweets, follow Josh Trevino, who is working for DeVore.

• Meanwhile, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has an an amusing retort to iCarly’s FAIL of a website.  Click on Carlyisdreamin.com for a chuckle.

• Arnold was cleared in his FPPC case. It was a big deal in 2003 right after he was sworn in, and basically dealt with income from his bodybuilding empire.

• Warren Hellman has plowed $5 million dollars as an initial investment into a multi-platform news operation for the Bay Area.  Always good to see the potential for new media outlets in media-starved San Francisco.  This could launch early next year.

• Exciting news for everyone who bought real estate at the peak of the market – Moody’s thinks it will take until 2030 to return to that peak in California.  Hold opportunity!

• The Dept. of Public Health cited 11 California hospitals for violations leading to “death or serious injury.”  These includes incidents like leaving two surgical clamps inside a patient in 2008, and pulling the tracheotomy tube out of another patient, who needed it for breathing.

• You know how we laid off all of our school nurses a long time ago? It turns out we really could have used them right about now while fighting the swine flu.

• Dave wrote about the Republican “report” yesterday pulling a number out of thin air for the cost of regulations.  Today, the Chronicle covers it, and others will surely follow. Andrew Ross is outraged that is sat in the halls of Sac for nearly a year.  Yup, it sure is a shame that junk “data” attained from Forbes Magazine languished.

• This is amusing.  The documentary Crude, about a $27 billion dollar lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, is premiering in San Francisco today.  Enviro activist Trudie Styler, Sting’s wife, personally invited every one of Chevron’s 6,000 employees in San Francisco to attend the movie for free.  Neat move.

• It seems the Arnold-eMeg back and forth about AB 32 is playing a little bit like a catfight in the media.

• The Public Utilities Commission is setting an aggressive energy efficiency strategy where utilities will invest $4.1 in projects in exchanges for being allowed to hike rates.  Residential retrofits are the linchpin to the strategy.