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, 2007
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The Pleasures of Hacking the Apple TV
Posted on March 30, 2007 | No CommentsPC World: It’s been barely a week since the release of the Apple TV, the new box from Apple that allows for streaming video to a television, but hackers from coast-to-coast have already been able to turn the $300 multimedia box into a full-fledged computer.... -
Sedaris falls from grace?
Posted on March 28, 2007 | 2 CommentsShafer had a great piece yesterday on Slate about lying, memory and journalism. He also linked to a piece in The New Republic about how David Sedaris embellished at best and lied outright at worst in many of his crazy stories: Even so, in the... -
Like Programmers, Future Fuel Cells Could Run on Coca-Cola
Posted on March 27, 2007 | No CommentsWired News: by Cyrus Farivar Cell phones that could be recharged with a shot of Coke, Kool-Aid or even maple syrup might hit the market within five years, using experimental, enzyme-based fuel-cell technologies described in a recent study by Shelley Minteer of Saint Louis University.... -
Culinary triumphs
Posted on March 24, 2007 | 3 CommentsLast night, I made the best Persian rice (with tadiq, the burned crunchy bits at the bottom of a rice pot) that I’ve ever made! Chowhound helped a bit, but this was all me. Previously my tadiqs haven’t been quite as uniform, nor the saffron... -
Life with a cell phone
Posted on March 23, 2007 | 2 CommentsCrap. I’m about 70 minutes (read about $30) over my monthly allotment on my cell phone. No one call me between now and 9 pm tonight. Thank God for upcoming free weekend minutes. -
“Walden Pond, Fifth Avenue style”
Posted on March 22, 2007 | 3 CommentsWhen I first read the headline “The Year Without Toilet Paper” in today’s New York Times, I thought to myself “Um, that’s not a big deal.” Most people in many parts of the world don’t use toilet paper (read: most Africans as well as people... -
Google’s Next-Gen of Sneakernet
Posted on March 20, 2007 | No CommentsWired News: By Cyrus Farivar March 20, 2007 How do you get 120 terabytes of data — the equivalent of 123,000 iPod shuffles (roughly 30 million songs) — from A to B? For the most part, the old-fashioned way: via a sneakernet. It’s not glamorous,... -
MacBook for sale – $850
Posted on March 20, 2007 | 3 CommentsMy MacBook is for sale. Lemme know if you’re interested. -
The best taco truck in Oakland
Posted on March 19, 2007 | No CommentsSo after trying Monica’s favorite burrito place in the East Bay, Chavez Market in Hayward this weekend, I still haven’t found any burrito superior to the ones from El Ojo de Agua in Fruitvale. I just found a January 2006 piece from the Chronicle talking... -
Barack Obama in Oakland
Posted on March 18, 2007 | 1 CommentIt was so crowded, I didn’t actually get to see him until after the speech. But it was a good speech nonetheless.
