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 July, 2005
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Media Appearance #4 : WRVA 1140 AM Richmond
Posted on July 20, 2005 | No CommentsIn the interests of punditry, I will be waking up at 5 am tomorrow to make my third appearance on “Richmond’s Morning News with Jimmy Barrett” (WRVA 1140 AM Richmond). I will be talking about household robots, including the Nuvo robot and the Roomba. I... -
NPR Can’t Distinguish Between Star Trek Series
Posted on July 20, 2005 | 1 CommentI know this is really geeky, but it needs to be said. In NPR’s tribute to James Doohan, the intro music is to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which James Doohan never had anything to do with and never appeared on. C’mon guys, not all... -
James Doohan, 1920 – 2005
Posted on July 20, 2005 | No CommentsAP: LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original ”Star Trek” TV series and movies who responded to the command ”Beam me up, Scotty,” died Wednesday. He was 85. Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his... -
Congrats to Matt Reed!
Posted on July 20, 2005 | No CommentsFor his first piece (the lead story, no less) in Wired News, on Cambodian blogs. Matt emailed me awhile back asking how to break into the freelance world, and will be attending Columbia this fall. Great job, Matt! -
Day 2 at Macworld Begins
Posted on July 20, 2005 | 2 CommentsLast night, after going through a debriefing of my first day, Becky pointed out an inconsistency with two of the fringe benefits that I get as an employee of Macworld (parent company IDG). On the one hand, they subsidize gym membership (sweet!), to encourage their... -
An Apt Comment
Posted on July 19, 2005 | No CommentsYesterday, I was driving Boyk and I home from Fruitvale. We had just eaten 10 tacos between four taquerias and polished it all off with a few churros. We got stuck in some brief traffic on the 80. Cyrus: “You know what sucks? Traffic.” Boyk:... -
Dallas in Dubai
Posted on July 19, 2005 | No CommentsOne of my best friends, Dallas Bluth is enjoying his summer in Lyon, France, where he lived from Fall 1996 until 1999. Through family friends, he recently met a woman named Fanny, who is to be married to a Crown Prince of Kuwait. The new... -
Back from DC
Posted on July 18, 2005 | No CommentsI spent most of last night camped out in Dulles airport. Managed to get a standby to Chicago and then to Oakland this morning. Not fun. However you should go buy your tickets to the Senegalese rap group Daara J (along with Lateef the Truthspeaker)... -
I’m not an “Arabic” terrorist, I just play one in rap songs
Posted on July 17, 2005 | No CommentsSo three points on the Arabic Assassin story. 1) Clearly, this guy isn’t all that bright if he thinks that as a Palestinian-American his rapping about terrorism isn’t going to raise any red flags. Oh, and he’s a baggage screener, too? In the George Bush... -
Stephen Colbert is a Genius
Posted on July 16, 2005 | No CommentsIn case you’re not a journalist/journalism geek, you may have missed that Matt Cooper talked to Karl Rove on “double super secret background”. The Daily Show’s Stephen Colbert explained the other night what, exactly, that means: Double super secret background: “Just like regular background but...
