Cyrus Farivar

This 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 his tricks. Don’t you have anything better to write about? Like that whole political corruption and war thing going on, that’s a popular one. Please get a sense of humor and then optionally go report…

[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 online hideout is, I do not know. Oh, and fellas, here’s a tip. If I wanted to start an Internet hoax from one forum and then migrate it to another — I wouldn’t use the…

Shhh! Don’t tell John Markoff or John Battelle (Aww, shit.). Oh, those wacky folks over in Building 43. Space Travel, Internet 3, Richard Branson, and Orbital Mind Control? Hot. Thanks to the good folks over at Good Morning, Silicon Valley, and of course, everyone’s favorite VC, Steve Jurvetson. OFF TOPIC THE REAL MASTER PLAN

Steve Ballmer, better known as Big Baller Ballmer, is now recruiting for basketball players. What’s with these Microsoft guys and their random obsessions? Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is into cooking, Paul Allen is into his museums. So that leaves one question: what is BillG’s bailiwick? BASKETBALL WITH BALLMER

When 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 email me. Thanks!

Woz and Gina Smith are working on Woz’ autobiography together, to be out by Christmas 2006. Except I’m not so sure about Gina’s fact-checking/spelling skillz: Tonight had a great meeting with my new editor at Norton — this for I ,Woz. That’s the new autobiography on Steve Wozniak I’m co-writing with him. Was Steve there? Noooo. He was in Singapore playing games with journalist Dan Gilmoor in a cocktail lounge in Narita. Check this out. Come home, Steve. We’ve got…

So apparently Larry Ellison’s 13-year-old house in Atherton is on the block. The property now boasts: — Approximately 8.000 sq. ft. of living space, 7 bedrooms, and 2.81 acres — Japanese style strolling gardens, with decks, ponds, waterfalls, koi pond and in-ground spa off the master suite — Authentic Japanese tea house — A dark-bottomed, free-form swimming pool which blends into the landscape Perhaps this is to fund either his new yacht, or his new donation to Harvard. Place your…

Ok, I get the fact that X is clearly the new W, which was the new black, but really. At least any of those are better than 802.11a/b/g/n. “Demonstrating that broadband wireless communications can occur at such micro-power levels in the presence of interfering signals overturns long-held industry ideas,” said xGTM President Joe Bobier in a statement in May. “What is really exciting, however, is that xMax’s unique signal profile is a perfect fit for low frequency channels that have…

That’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)

San Francisco Missed Connections: i was walking along market street towards powell, you were headed in the opposite direction. i was with a friend; stood 5’7′ (cause of my sandals) wore a denim miniskirt, and had a black cap on.. you were about 6’1′, wore blue jeans and a green shirt. you have the most gorgeous eyes, and i wish i said something, but was too shy.. we looked at each other, i looked away, and when i looked back…