Word: franciscos
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...video blogger Josh Wolf was set free after serving nearly 8 months in federal prison, longer than any other journalist in the U.S., for failing to testify before a grand jury and for refusing to hand over unpublished video he shot during an anti-G8 Summit protest in San Francisco in July 2005, where one police officer was struck in the head with a pipe. Wolf posted some of the demontration's video on his blog, and some clips were aired on local newscasts, but the prosecutors demanded to see everything that wasn't made public - alleging that the unedited...
...Wolf: Overwhelming. It's a great relief to be back in San Francisco. It's also a bit of a lightning storm of both friends and media contacting me as I return to what's home, but feels unfamiliar at this point. It's almost like the country boy going to Manhattan for the first time, and going from almost no stimulus to almost non-stop constant stimulus. It does take a certain toll...
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...start selling the iPhone in June, and the new category of ultra-mini PCs like the FlipStart and the OQO2 is threatening to make computers as portable as cell phones. Two, wi-fi is becoming ubiquitous. Google and Earthlink have a deal in place to supply all of San Francisco with free wireless Internet access. Philadelphia, Anaheim, Calif., and Madison, Wis., already have it, as do dozens of other cities and towns. Within 10 years, most of urban and suburban America will be bathed in free wi-fi service. Airlines are expected to fire up in-flight...
...between their punishments is the basis of a petition sent this week by Lindh's lawyers to President Bush and the Justice Department, calling for his sentence to be commuted. "This is a simple cry for justice with regard to one person," Lindh attorney James Brosnahan told a San Francisco press conference...