Cyrus Farivar

Hello from New York City and congratulations to everyone at Macworld. Tonight we won the silver Ozzie award (second place nationally) for best illustration in our class (consumer above 250,000 circ) for the illustration that went with our “Prevent Mac Disasters” feature. Congratulations to Rob for the excellent art direction! And we won the GOLD Eddie award (first place!) for the best consumer computer/technology magazine, defeating MAKE magazine and PC World. This is a gigantic win for Macworld, a national…

Here’s how to make a Mac on X86 hardware for $200, and here’s where you can get a refurb Mac Mini for $379. Hot damn.

My cousin Nena do Nascimento (who I lived with in Switzerland) is studying abroad in Brazil this year, on her junior year abroad at McGill University. She’s just started a LiveJournal. For those of you who’ve studied abroad before, some words of encourgement I’m sure would be appreciated. Go Nena!

#1 : Syriana: From writer/director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award for Traffic, comes Syriana, a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film’s multiple storylines weave together to illuminate the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and power. As a career CIA operative (George Clooney) begins to uncover…

They Might Be Giants Friday Nov. 4 – 2 tix @ $30 each – or Thurs swap? – $60 Eight Paris Metro Tickets (unused) – $5

The FOURTH NYT article about podcasting, almost to the day of the first one that I wrote? What is going on with the NYT’s tech coverage? (Previous post on this from May 11, 2005.)

These are some photos from the first few days in Istanbul. More coming soon.

For under $4, four new exclusive live tracks (“Spanish Techno”, “Bones of an Idol”, “Streets of Fire” and “Graceland”) from the best thing to come out of Canada since poutine can be yours. Friday is wonderful. Just fire up iTunes and head on over to the Music Store.

My buddy, the badass printer/artist Noah Breuer has one of his works on the home page of the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. He’s now getting his MFA at Columbia. If you’re in NYC, go check out his stuff. (Previous post on Noah’s work.) Jim Higdon, my Columbia j-school classmate, got a bookdeal with Putnam for his book “The Cornbread Mafia”, the story of how one rural county in Kentucky became a national center of drug-dealing and how it…

I was sitting next to a guy reading the January 2003 issue of American Window Cleaner magazine, formerly published out of Point Richmond, CA. (Now published out of Bedford, N.Y.). Who knew? During my 17 hour stint in Paris I managed to buy three of the four Marjane Satrapi Persepolis comics in French from a bookstore in the Parisian suburb of Issy, where my aunt lives, for a total of 45 euros. (Shipping to the US would cost me 15+…