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How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on...

We just got a note from Lauren Gelman at the Center for Internet and Society that Apple has been handed a total loss at the hands of "Does," AKA O'Grady's PowerPage and Apple Insider, who published leaked details of Apple's firewire peripheral for GarageBand. In other words, it was not within Apple's rights to wander around demanding that journalists reveal their sources, under trade secrets protections or any other law. SFist and the rest of the Gothamist network pledged our support for the defendants along with dozens of other online news sources in the form of an amicus curiae brief which Lauren put together. From her blog:

This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our amicus brief [PDF]).

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Fellow Apple jihadies [sic], unite! Today Apple announced more stuff for us to buy!

Well, we'd reported on kerfuffle between Apple Computer and a few punk bloggers (AKA Apple v. Does) before, but now there have actually been some legal developments in the case. And while it doesn't look good, it's not entirely hopeless yet, either.