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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"
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Archive for July, 2005
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U.S. Pushes Anti-Terrorism in Africa
Posted on July 26, 2005 | No CommentsWashPost: The Pentagon plans to train thousands of African troops in battalions equipped for extended desert and border operations and to link the militaries of different countries with secure satellite communications. The initiative, with proposed funding of $500 million over seven years, covers Algeria, Chad,... -
Exploding Clear Plastic Containers
Posted on July 25, 2005 | 1 CommentWashPost: [Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch] said the containers that held the explosives — 6.25-liter models made of clear plastic with white lids and bearing the brand name Delta — were imported from India and sold at 100 outlets. He urged any... -
Lamb Festival
Posted on July 24, 2005 | No CommentsBecause the the chowhounds seem to be down on the Gilroy Garlic Festival next weekend, someone also mentioned the Lamb Festival in Dixon, CA (towards Sacramento) on Saturday instead. It’s smaller, cheaper ($1/person), and closer (at least from Berkeley). Who’s interested? -
Life Imitates The Daily Show
Posted on July 23, 2005 | No CommentsMetafilter: A guest from a Daily Show joke piece was fired from the Broward Art Guild (which still lists her as the exec. director). The strange thing about this story is that in the original piece, the artists involved in a guild show were the... -
Long List of Lost Lore
Posted on July 22, 2005 | No CommentsContains spoilers for Season 1: Comprehensive List of What is Known About Lost -
“The Pick-Up System No Girl Can Resist!”
Posted on July 22, 2005 | No CommentsThis 40 minute album has eight actual recorded pick-up scenes to learn from. You’ll hear exactly how to pick up a busty college girl in a library, a tall pretty blond street, a dark-haired sexy swinger in a single’s bar. Each pick-up is introduced by... -
For All You Lost Fans Out There
Posted on July 21, 2005 | No CommentsWikipedia Entry on Lost: For a teaser of season two visit http://www.oceanic-air.com/seatingchart.htm and view the Oceanic Flight 815 seating chart. There click on the “numbers” 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 to preview a promo for season two. The site also contains a hidden... -
DPRK Discovers the English Language
Posted on July 21, 2005 | No CommentsLA Times: Teacher: Han Il Nam, how do you spell the word “revolution”? Student A: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n. Teacher: Very good, thank you. Sit down. Ri Chol Su. What’s the Korean for “revolution”? Student B: Hyekmyeng. Teacher: Fine, thank you. Have you any questions? Student C: No... -
Tom Randall on press duty
Posted on July 21, 2005 | 1 CommentThis is from my Columbia buddy Tom Randall who I saw last weekend in DC. He’s an intern at Bloomberg in DC for the summer and occasionally is on presidential press pool duty. i went to the state dinner with indian pm, george, laura, condi,... -
This Morning’s Interview on WRVA 1140 AM Richmond
Posted on July 21, 2005 | No CommentsI was up at 5 am this morning to do an interview on WRVA about robots. It went well overall, except that it had three minor issues. The first was that I was mistakenly credited as being the “editor of Macworld magazine” (Jason, I’m really...
