Cyrus Farivar

This blog linked to my earlier post about the Boing Boing/Secure Computing debacle. He writes : And it is still a rumor folks. I mean, Cyrus Farivar gives the impression he thinks there was research involved: A couple of bloggers, Joi Ito, (who found the link from Sean Bonner) and Kathryn Cramer, and sex blogger Violet Blue have found that Mr. Foote-Lennox isn’t quite the “protector of kids” that he’d like to make himself out to be. All those bloggers…

I just discovered that the University of Texas has an amazing online map collection, including this one of San Francisco in 1915. You’ll note the absence of the bridges, and the Alameda County line being set just beyond where the trains ended. And Mission Rock looks much more looming on that map than it does today. Also check the 1901 San Francisco Milk Map.

This is my first piece (hopefully not the last!) in The Economist magazine, in the latest issue of the Technology Quarterly. You’ll notice the absence of a byline (“by Cyrus Farivar”) because The Economist is old-school — they don’t have bylines. So you’ll just have to take the fact that I wrote it on faith. Pulling the plug on standby power Mar 9th 2006 From The Economist print edition Energy: Billions of devices sitting idle in “standby” mode waste vast…

ESPN.com: [Russ] Martin spent part of the winter catching Dodgers closer Eric Gagne, who is continuing his comeback from elbow surgery. “He’s throwing very well,” Martin said. “His changeup is as filthy as ever.” The two have spent a lot of time together this spring because they’re battery mates, Canadians and they both speak fluent French. “We speak French all the time, out on the field sometimes, but not when anyone else is around,” Martin said. “We decided that we…

SF Chronicle: (03-09) 10:12 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A fire on the Muni level of the Embarcadero station this morning halted BART and Muni metro trains in both directions and forced authorities to evacuate passengers. Black smoke could be seen pouring for several minutes from the stairways of the Embarcadero and Montgomery street stations and from a grill in front of 425 Market St. starting about 9:30 a.m. The smoke had largely dissipated within half an hour, and the fire…

So the whole Boing Boing vs. Secure Computing saga (my radio piece is here and NYT coverage is here) has gotten just a touch weirder. From the NYT piece: In an e-mail message to Xeni Jardin, another of Boing Boing’s chiefs, Tomo Foote-Lennox, a director of filtering data for Secure Computing, asked why the bloggers were starting a war. “We discussed several ways that you could organize your site so that I could protect the kids and you could distribute…

My piece on BoingBoing being blocked by an American filtering company (SecureComputing) will be on The World today! Will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 3 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern – WGBH – 89.7 FM –…

The fact that “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” has been nominated (and they performed it) for Best Original Song. Update: THEY WON! Runner-up: Stephen Colbert narrating Dames for Truth.

No, really.