Cyrus Farivar

By CYRUS FARIVAR If all goes well, this year a remote-controlled portable airplane will be taking to the air over Southern California, providing a low-cost eye in the sky for law enforcement. Chang Industry of La Verne, Calif., is one of dozens of companies working on portable unmanned aerial vehicles, or U.A.V.’s, that can be equipped with cameras to transmit live video feeds to law enforcement officers on the ground, miles away. While larger and more sophisticated unmanned aircraft have…

WashPost: The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley. In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas. Four months after Charles A.…

Dubya has an iPod? (via Instapundit) One, two and three. And from Slate comes this great article about Do Commandos Go Commando? Soldiers and their Skivvies There’s no ban on underwear from Central Command, of course, but a number of advisories on military safety do offer tips that could be construed to support the practice. Web sites for the armed forces’ safety programs warn that tight-fitting uniforms reduce cooling air flow around the body, and the Manual of Naval Preventive…

So I was on the plane from OAK to DFW (Dallas/Ft. Worth), en route to LGA (LaGuardia) and one of the flight attendants (female) was talking with these two women sitting across the aisle from me, and they were all fawning over this mid 20-something guy who was in the Army, and was headed back to Afghanistan after 15 days of R&R. They seemed to treat him like he was some sort of celebrity or something — I mean, sure,…

I’ve been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I’m going home to my city by the bay Good night, California. I will miss you. See you in 4.5 months. It was great to see all you guys!

In 12 hours, I’ve gone through an entire roll of toilet paper (used as kleenex) to blow my nose with. I kept waking up last night to have to blow my nose. Either I’m becoming immune to over-the-counter drugs, or my non-sickness sickness is manifesting itself more. I would say that I’m sick, but I feel fine and the only symptoms I have are a constantly runny nose and a very slight sore throat. Generic Claratin/Sudafed seemed to keep it…

“I think once the Internet bust got into full swing, it was like being survivors of a tsunami. Everybody was glad they were still there, no matter how they felt about each other before it hit.” – Salon.com founder David Talbot, on staying afloat January 8, 2005 via Rogers Cadenhead

Did anyone else catch the reference to Office Space in Episode 4 of “Lost” ? Funny. 🙂 Met with Jason Snell of Macworld and Adam Rogers of Wired this week. Promising on both fronts, nothing definite yet, but promising. Desserts galore tonight. Rain = annoying.

For whatever this is worth: Six Apart (makers of Moveable Type) are buying Live Journal. Maybe now it’ll be easier to duplicate my LJ blog to my MT one.

LA Times: Exactly where in Anaheim is Los Angeles? In a quest for dollars, and at the edge of geographic absurdity, the Anaheim Angels Ñ formerly known as the California Angels and Los Angeles Angels Ñ said Monday they would now call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The move drew ridicule on national radio shows and scorn from the Dodgers, provoked outrage from Orange County fans opposed to the change and prompted a stern message from the city…