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
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Archive for March, 2005
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You Know You’re a Nerd When:
Posted on March 31, 2005 | No CommentsYou read these two sentences on Slashdot and laugh out loud: “A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published — 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later. Some of their findings include “DNS is good”... -
“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.”
Posted on March 31, 2005 | 1 CommentDamn. Glad that I got to see him in Berkeley and in Providence. Mitch Hedberg, R.I.P. Comedian Mitch Hedberg dead at 37, The Pioneer Press -
Universal Pop
Posted on March 30, 2005 | No CommentsMy good friend David Boyk has started a new music/MP3 blog : Universal Pop This is a much better version of a column that I used to write on my rarely-read website circa 2000 called “International Musician of the Week.” Rock on, dude. -
Thief Takes Laptop With Berkeley Data
Posted on March 29, 2005 | No CommentsAP: SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (AP) – A thief has stolen a laptop computer containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants at the University of California, Berkeley, university officials said Monday. The incident is the latest in a string of... -
Live News from DC
Posted on March 29, 2005 | No CommentsMy Slate piece was killed and I killed my own radio doc piece (not enough good sound and/or characters), but Tom Randall and I are currently on the steps of the Supreme Court waiting to get into the MGM v. Grokster oral arguments. Photos here.... -
The Open Source iPod
Posted on March 28, 2005 | No CommentsSo one of my stories that I thought was running for Macworld, is already available today on the Playlist website, here. Imagine recording studio-quality audio using your iPod and a regular-old microphone. Or sitting on the commuter train, playing Othello, Pong, Tetris or Asteroids. All... -
Freelancing News
Posted on March 28, 2005 | No CommentsI’ve currently got two long-ish pieces in upcoming issues of Macworld, some online stuff for the Macworld spinoff iPod-centric magazine Playlist, an approval for a small piece for Wired . . . but the better news is that I’m working on a piece for Slate!... -
Happy Easter
Posted on March 27, 2005 | No CommentsWell, a Happy Easter to all, and to all a good night. Or something like that. Sarmad and I hit up the H-town (read: Hartford) scene for a tasty weekend full of roast duck on Saturday and roast leg of lamb in stereo (read: two... -
I love Berkeley students
Posted on March 24, 2005 | No CommentsCourtesy Boing Boing, courtesy of the dude’s LJ : The way this all got started was that my friend and i were sitting around at dinner chatting about what to do for the upcoming room-to-room party. We went through a whole bunch of ideas for... -
Ah, to be a Russian Romantic
Posted on March 24, 2005 | No CommentsGoddamn — the fourth movement of Tchaikovksy’s fifth symphony is totally punk rock. Also, good news to announce on the freelancing front pretty soon.
