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A Duty to Hack
Adrian Lamo, the 22-year-old "homeless hacker" famous for raiding New York Times computers, pursues his vision of public service by cracking another major corporate network. It's a crime, of course. It's also what he was born to do.
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All good things, as they say, must come to an end. And this week marks the final installment of The Apologist, the satirical current events quiz in SF Weekly that poked sardonic fun at San Francisco's issues and newsmakers. For…
by Matt Palmquist
January 31, 2007
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, Major League Baseball, National League (Baseball), NL West Division, San Francisco Giants
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Another year has come and gone, and as San Francisco bids adieu to 2006, we take stock of the stories that shaped our lives during the past 12 months. As usual, the Bay Area found itself in plenty of national…
by Matt Palmquist
January 3, 2007
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, AL West Division, American League (Baseball), Major League Baseball, National League (Baseball)
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Last Thursday, more than 5,000 scientists packed two ballrooms of the San Francisco Marriott Hotel to hear former Vice President Al Gore's keynote speech at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, the world's largest scientific gathering. In an impassioned address…
by Matt Palmquist
December 20, 2006
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Union of Concerned Scientists, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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This holiday season, Bay Area shoppers have a new destination: The expanded Westfield San Francisco Centre on Market Street, in the space that once housed the old Emporium. Developers retained the Market Street facade of the 1896 Emporium — a…
by Matt Palmquist
December 6, 2006
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In the run-up to yesterday's midterm elections, Republicans nationwide found themselves with a common last-second rallying cry. It started with Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly, who inveighed against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her "San Francisco values" on his…
by Matt Palmquist
November 8, 2006
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, Bill O'Reilly, U.S. Republican Party
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Last week, Google Inc., the Mountain View-based company that revolutionized the way people scour the Web and collect information, announced it was purchasing the online video clip service YouTube for the staggering price of $1.6 billion. YouTube, which was founded…
by Matt Palmquist
October 25, 2006
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A federal judge last week ordered two San Francisco Chronicle reporters to prison for as long as 18 months, pending their appeal, with the aim of pressuring them into revealing their sources of confidential grand jury testimony about star athletes…
by Matt Palmquist
September 27, 2006
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, Debra Wong Yang, Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-Wada, Barry Bonds
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer last week opened an investigation into Hewlett-Packard, charging that its inquiry into press leaks of confidential information violated the privacy rights of board members and journalists. The Palo Alto computing giant's chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, who…
by Matt Palmquist
September 13, 2006
Tags: The Apologist, Columns, Hewlett-Packard Company, Carly Fiorina, Bill Lockyer, Patricia Dunn
