Cyrus Farivar

Here’s the link to the new A9 Search. That link is for Berkeley.

Sean says: With a single keystroke in OSX, you can invert your laptop’s screen and turn it black-and-white. That improves the legibility of things that are hard to see in brightly-lit environments. Repeat the keystroke and you’re back to normal.

From Kos: Today’s Front Pages

So today I’m at Where 2.0. I had been skeptical about this conference, as after having only gone to a few tech conferences before, it seems like they are, crudely put, one big circle jerk. (IE, all the same people talking about all the same things.) But given that I’m starting to go a little stir crazy with nothing but my cat to keep me company as I write all day on my couch, I figured that the conference would…

Somehow, my blog is the #4 link on Google for Piotr Adamski, the Polish model who I blogged about the other day, quoting an NYT piece about it. The NYT piece is #5. As such, I’ve been getting loads of traffic to my blog, nearly four times what I normally get.

Playlist: By Cyrus Farivar Getting your hands on your favorite podcasts just got easier with TuesdayÕs release of iTunes 4.9. The latest version of AppleÕs music jukebox and download application adds support for podcasting, a new type of time-shifted amateur radio. Up until iTunes 4.9Õs release, podcasts typically have been downloaded through a podcasting client, such as iPodder or iPodderX. Now, iTunes and podcasting are one, completing a seemingly inevitable union. HereÕs what you can expect when searching for podcasts…

The New Yorker: Patrick HenryÕs president, Michael Farris, is a lawyer and minister who has worked for Christian causes for decades. He founded the school after getting requests from two constituencies: homeschooling parents and conservative congressmen. The parents would ask him where they could find a Christian college with a ÒcourtshipÓ atmosphere, meaning one where dating is regulated and subject to parental approval. The congressmen asked him where they could find homeschoolers as interns and staffers, Òwhich I took to…

From Veljo Haamer: Yet another great Internet video.

Ed: Tom Randall and I attended this hearing. Check out my photos here. NYT: The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Internet file-sharing services like Grokster and StreamCast Networks could be held responsible if they encouraged users to trade songs, movies and television shows online without paying for them. The case, which pitted the entertainment industry against technology companies in the continuing battle over the proper balance between protecting copyrights and fostering innovation, overturns lower court decisions that…