Cyrus Farivar

From BoingBoing: The last few minutes of this video from a biology class at Berkeley is of professor explaining the terrifying consequences that will soon befall the student that stole his laptop. Hell, I’m 500 miles away from Berkeley and I’m scared after watching this. (Forward to 48:50. It’s a RealPlayer file, unfortunately, so be prepared for it to stop playing at least three times while you’re watching it). Video link | Audio Link (Zipped)

I just came back (alive) from a lecture at SIPA by Robert Young Pelton — you might remember him as being the CNN stringer who did the interview with John Walker Lindh. Wow. This guy is really smart, practical, funny, perhaps slightly off-beat (re: crazy), but definately entertaining. When I went up to him afterwards and introduced myself as a journalism student he said: “Well, why would you want to go and do a thing like that?” One woman started…

Fenway Park is officially the greatest baseball stadium ever. Pics and some short movie clips tomorrow. Back in NYC now. Must sleep. Off to DC tomorrow for a day to accompany Sarmad to get a new passport.

My main man, David Boyk is a new American Bollywood authority, at least in the Austin American-Statesman. Rock on, chief.

Ok, this is the new final list. Kathy reminded me of the Clapton, and I really didn’t like the Too Short song. I’m still willing to listen to other songs, but I’m pretty sure this will be the final list. Thanks again to everyone who contributed. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – California Gipsy Kings – Hotel California Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart in San Francisco Bad Religion – Los Angeles is Burning Beach Boys – California Girls…

SF Chronicle (courtesy Wonkette): Welcome to F–forforest.com (FFF), a porn site with a difference. Along with raw, explicit images and videos with scenes like the one described above, FFF is well stocked with facts about the world’s forests. On the Web site, naked sylphs share space with graphs of forest loss over time and exhaustive lists of the benefits tropical rain forests provide to society. It’s a novel approach to eco-activism, certainly, but one the duo hopes will help save…

So my friend Jennifer Weiss wanted to buy up a domain around her name (jenniferweiss.com, etc) but many of the relevant permutations were owned by this one guy. So she emailed him and then got this response : “Hello New York Jennifer Weiss. How strange — I’ve always wondered what someone else with my name is like. . . . My friend [redacted] told me after receiving your e-mail that he had bought up a bunch of domain names with…

Ok, so I finalized the list. Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – California Gipsy Kings – Hotel California Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart in San Francisco Bad Religion – Los Angeles is Burning Beach Boys – California Girls Chris Isaak – San Francisco Days The Decemberists – Los Angeles, I’m Yours Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication The Mamas and the Papas – If You’re Going To San Francisco Arlo Guthrie –…

How beautiful.

Sy Hersh gets skewered by Chris Suellentrop (of Slate fame) in New York magazine. (Via Instapundit NYT on Bush’s iPod