About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Archive for October, 2004
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Comments are hereby closed
Posted on October 13, 2004 | No CommentsI can’t deal with comment spam anymore and I can’t get the MT-Blacklist to work, so I’m shutting down comments on this blog indefinately. -
Wonkette Comes to Columbia
Posted on October 12, 2004 | No CommentsWell, last night, anyway. I had thought about live-blogging it, but was glad someone did it for me in a much funnier way that I could have done. -
School Ups Grade by Going Online
Posted on October 12, 2004 | No CommentsNew story in Wired News — this grew out of an assignment that I had last week for RW1. -
A Moment to Remember
Posted on October 10, 2004 | No CommentsWe had to go on police ride-a-longs last night. Mine was rather uneventful. We were asked to send around via email something memorable from the night. Sarmad, our student from Baghdad, had this experience: Hi, As I , Channing and two policemen from the 76th... -
I Love Chowhound
Posted on October 10, 2004 | No CommentsI want to Roast a Pig — Need Sources for Pig, Roasting Equipment: Question: I want to roast a pig — enough to feed 20-30 people — in about a week and a half. I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I am most interested in renting... -
Cyrus’ Legacy
Posted on October 10, 2004 | No CommentsSo apparently my namesake wrote a famous scroll that the Brits are loaning back to the Iranians. How thoughtful of them. This clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus, king of Persia (559-530 BC) of his conquest of Babylon in... -
Post-Debate Analysis, Round 2
Posted on October 8, 2004 | No CommentsKerry: 8.5 Bush: 6.75 Bush gets a slight increase for not being *as* jumpy as he was before — oh and for this line in regard to the question about the draft: “I hear there’s rumors on the, uh, Internets.” Kerry was strong, clear, decisive,... -
“Summertime, hot dogs, baseball in Brooklyn — life doesn’t get any better than this.”
Posted on October 8, 2004 | No CommentsWhy didn’t anyone tell me that John Flansburgh had another band (Rich? Boyk? Frysinger?) ? They’ve got some neat stuff. I was perusing the TMBG site today and downloaded the TMBG Clock Radio — basically a downloadable program that acts as Internet radio station that... -
2 + 2 = 5
Posted on October 7, 2004 | No CommentsMIAMI (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush’s decision to go to war.... -
Columbia J-School Students Terrify Locals
Posted on October 6, 2004 | No CommentsEd: This perfectly encapsulates how I feel about j-school assignments. (Courtesy JSchool05 blog.) by Brian Montopoli New York Observer October 11, 2004 A few weeks before graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism two years ago, Shelley Preston was asked by the yearbook committee...
