Cyrus Farivar

I found this site on a Google Ad somewhere. They advertised crazy prices for memory cards, like a 2 GB SD card for $50. I put in an order. It’s been two weeks and no SD card. It’s a scam. They use my credit card number to buy some AOL service and Yahoo Classified ads. Completely fradulent. The address that they list on the site : 308 Fountain Circle Huntsville, Alabama 35801 is the address of the Huntsville City Council.…

One of the new projects of mine at work is to be a blogger at Macworld’s new blog: MacUser. Come check us out!

I saw Munich last night. Quite a good film. The ETA/ANC/IRA meets PLO scene is fantastic. In semi-related news, the

Is anyone else going to LA for MLK weekend? I could have bought a Southwest ticket last night for $120, but stupidly waited until this morning and now they cost almost $200. I’ve put up an ad on craigslist. My other options are to suck it up and get the $180 ticket on United or Southwest — or try to brave the California Chinatown Bus scene (San Leandro BART to Santa Monica!) for $90 roundtrip on CABus.

Alright, alright, so I’m a little slow on the Chronicles of Narnia SNL rap. But it’s damn great. Now children, as an excercise, let’s compare blog/media coverage of this event: NYT: Publication Date: December 27, 2005 Summary: Two white guys create the startup version of comedy. The Web helps them to get famous. Best line: And Mr. Samberg found himself in the delicate position of having to explain to his mother that the song’s chorus is a play on words…

In the Book of Isaiah, God embraces the Persian king Cyrus and his respect for different religions, even though Cyrus does not know God’s name and does not practice Judaism. By calling Cyrus “the anointed one,” or messiah, God signals his tolerance for people who share his moral vision, no matter their nationality or faith. — Teach, Don’t Preach, the Bible Op-Ed by Bruce Feiler, The New York Times. December 21, 2005

As a Christmas gift to everyone, tonight I put up some photos from West Africa on Flickr and finally finished Episode 3 of The Wanderlust Geek Podcast

So Eston Bond spotted one of my articles on the website of an Australian graphic designer. From our AIM chat from this morning: Eston Bond (10:48:06 AM): he posted to a design forum I frequent FarivarCJ (10:48:40 AM): random Eston Bond (10:48:44 AM): yeah Eston Bond (10:48:50 AM): I was like whoa, that’s kinda crazy Eston Bond (10:49:14 AM): I told him about it, and he said “Really? There was a selection of about 4 texts that a lecturer gave…

Kevin Maney’s Predictions for 2006 (USA Today): This piece is just plain bad on so many levels. Here goes. “Cellphone cameras will actually become useful.” Wrong. First, I disagree with the premise that people want a camera on their phone. Yes, you can do it and have it and take pictures of your friends so that their photo comes up when they call you, but really how many of us were dying to have a camera on the phone? The…

Pitchfork’s Interview with The New Pornographers: Pitchfork: Will Dan be playing any instruments, or only singing with you? Newman: I think he’s just going to be singing because he’s going to be doing his Destroyer set, and I think he’d rather just come up and do his thing with a pint glass in one hand. I didn’t want to burden him with too much. I also thought that it was conceivable that by the time our set hits, he might…