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
Greenlighter Hoax Archive
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I had thought the Wikipedia/Wookie saga was over.
Posted on October 4, 2005 | 1 CommentSo when I arrived home at my Oakland cottage yesterday I opened up my mailbox. I was surprised to find a letter addressed to me from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Dear Cyrus Farivar, Recently, your story “Green-Collar Crime: How I Stopped... -
Greetings Reason and National Journal Readers!
Posted on August 2, 2005 | No CommentsIf you want to follow the Wikipedia nonsense that’s been following me since this the Slate piece was printed, check these entries. Otherwise, enjoy, and feel free to email me. -
Greenlighter.org is dead! Long live Greenlighter.org!
Posted on July 6, 2005 | 11 CommentsGreenlighter.org RIP July 2, 2005 – July 6, 2005 Fellas, it’s been fun. Really. -
Now I’m Getting Those Greenlighters Riled Up!
Posted on July 6, 2005 | 3 CommentsThis is from one “Ding Chavez” (oh come now, Internet pseudonyms are so 1996). With all due respect, you seem like the kind of person that would go to a child’s birthday party uninvited, and then proceed to explain loudly how the magician does all... -
Greenlighters: Late Night Edition
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No Comments[images redacted] So apparently I scared the living daylights out of WookieFetish.com, so much so that they deleted all of their posts talking about their hoaxing operation and replaced them with dumb and obviously made up posts about wookies and what not. Where their new... -
I’ve been banned! Yay!
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No CommentsWhen I try to login to WookieFetish, I get the following: You have been banned from this forum. Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information. Wow, that took two hours. Pretty good, fellas. If anyone else wants to infiltrate their board, please... -
Welcome WookieFetish.com Readers!
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No CommentsThat’s right, a quick check of my referral logs show that the good folks over at WookieFetish.com, or more accurately, their forum, seemed to pay attention to my post about Greenlighters. Welcome, friends. (More below the fold) -
A New Internet Hoax?
Posted on July 3, 2005 | No CommentsMetafilter reports on a new Internet community of “Greenlighters”, people who wear green polo shirts with the collars turned up as a signal of sexual interest. Not surprisingly this “community” has a website, which for now is down, but I can verify earlier today that...
