May 2007

My favorite hip-hop duo from Seattle will be rockin’ the mic this Thursday at Pier 23 in a FREE show that starts at 9 pm! I will *so* be there. Come meet me! (Did I mention that it’s free?)

Earlier today I wrote about how Google had added Street View, a really awesome new feature that allows for street-level photos in major metro areas, including the Bay Area. I was able to check out my own house here in Oakland, and saw my Toyota Corolla parked smartly in front. Man, this is so freakin’ sweet.

Man, these stories just keep getting better: The Stanford Daily: Kim — the 18-year-old from Fullerton, Calif. who was revealed by The Daily last Thursday to have been squatting in Stanford dorms since September despite not being affiliated with the University — duped ROTC officials into thinking she was an honor-roll Stanford student for eight months. She took classes on Army tactics and history, received military equipment worth more than $1,000 and even earned official military awards for her top…

I just found out that MC Solaar’s seventh album will be coming out next month. Appropriately, as has been the case for the last few albums with their numerological titles, it’ll be called “Chapitre 7.” It’s been four years since the last one — I can’t wait. Pretty much all that’s known about the first single is that it’s called: “Da Vinci Claude,” after the “Da Vinci Code” and Solaar’s real name, Claude M’Barali.

For the record, I’ve left Engadget entirely, and have rejoined MacUser.

That friendly junior college down on the Peninsula has just caught a girl who was squatting in a dorm, faking the fact that she was a student for the better part of an entire school year. But better than that, points out SFist, is that there’s another fake student afoot: And this is the best part of the whole story! There’s another fake student at Stanford! Apparently a woman’s been squatting in one of the theoretical physics labs. For four…

My current Craigslist listings: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/hsh/338239882.html http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/wet/338252040.html

So while driving home from last night’s Nous Non Plus show at Café du Nord at around 12:30 am last night, I was pleased to see that the I-580 connector was reopened — I drove across it en route home. C.C. Myers sounds like a helluva guy, as in this previous anecdote about his getting part of I-10 in LA done on time in 1994. He rode his crews hard, praising, goading and yelling in equal measure. When he had…

Dude, how is it in that in four (ok, three) years at Berkeley, no one told me about the tradition of streaking through the Main Stacks? Damn, I missed out.

Slate: Cyberwar I: What the attacks on Estonia have taught us about online combat. By Cyrus Farivar Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at 12:14 PM ET In Estonia, you can pay for your parking meter via cell phone, access free Wi-Fi at every gas station, and, as of two months ago, vote in national elections from your PC. The small, wired country can now add another item to this list of technological achievements: It’s the first government to get targeted…