2005

This story is a great profile of Dawn and Drew, the top podcasting couple. If you haven’t heard their show, go download it now. Really. I bet Dawn is happy that they finally got her name right. I, on the other hand, fucked it up. My apologies again. Good job, D&D. Hope to see you in NYC soon.

Sumana Harihareswara: Science!: Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options! It is kind of weird that we still don’t know why the copper IUD works. Now here’s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don’t they have to have…

I can’t decide which I like better, the Islamic Islamicist Party (for Islam) or the United National Iraqi Freedom Party for a Democratic Iraq. Check it.

If roquefort (a kind of bleu cheese) were a character in the Mortal Kombat of flavors, it would commit a fatality every time.

“Passerby, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know that you will come – I am Cyrus, I have given the Persians an empire and I have ruled over Asia. So do not envy me for this monument.”

by Bob Dylan ‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm.” And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are…

Lemme know what you think. I was pretty happy with it. (Again, if you missed it, the interview was in relation to this story.) InterviewWFLA540AM.2005-02-07.mp3 [5.7 MB (12:27) 64 kbps]

LA Times: Cosmetic surgery may be all the rage in Southern California, but one Westside community is considering banning it Ñ for animals. The city is pet-friendly West Hollywood. And at today’s meeting of the City Council, Mayor John Duran will introduce a motion to ban the cropping of animals’ ears, docking of their tails, surgical procedures to silence them, defanging and other operations performed for “noncurative” reasons. Such procedures, which Duran and others believe are painful, purely cosmetic or…

Ed: The following is an assignment for my book writing class that is due tomorrow on the theme of “In the Shadows”. I just finished it. We’re supposed to practice writing narrative non-fiction. Comments always welcome. Lisa’s name has been changed at her request. Farivar, Cyrus Prof. Freedman February 7, 2005 “In the Shadows” WC: 2395 Maybe it was the tight “disquette” jeans that did it. Or perhaps it was the “bin-bins”. Either way, Lisa wanted to be noticed. She…

Yesterday, Dave Winer challenged me over lunch at 2nd Ave. Deli (which is amazing — and thanks again, Dave) to provide more journalistic transparency, by displaying my notes online — because he charged that when he’s been interviewed that the reporters bungled what he said, or didn’t focus on what he wanted them to. And I said if my editors were ok with it, that I would. And my editor at Wired News said he was ok with it. So,…