Cyrus Farivar

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on One Laptop Per Child is/was on Morning Edition today (August 27). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM –…

But seriously Barack, why no text message yet? I thought we had something.

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the resurgence of bike messengers will be on Morning Edition tomorrow (August 22). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC –…

Hey guys, in addition to my intermittent blogging here, I’ll be taking the wheel at Salon’s The Machinist blog this week, from August 18th through the 22nd. I’ll be following the footsteps of guest writers Evan Ratliff, Denise Caruso, Joe Hutsko, and the original Machinist himself, Farhad Manjoo. Come stop by and say hi! Update: My first post is here.

Big ups to Evgeny Morozov for penning this oft-lauded piece for Slate, “An Army of Ones and Zeroes: How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar.” (Not to toot my own horn, but I played a small role in this piece, in that Evgeny asked me who to contact at Slate for the piece, and he took care of the rest.) He writes: I had a much simpler research objective: to test how much damage someone like me, who…

With the good weather lately, feeling all crunchy and wanting to save gas and all that I’ve been riding my bike a bit more. For far too long, I’ve been been too paranoid about not having my bike stolen (I got a bike stolen in high school and another in college) and so I’m ashamed to admit that my bike has spent more time in my shed, rather than on the road. But I’ve been totally loving hitting the streets…

Wow, apparently a UCSD political science professor, James H. Fowler, has just published a bona fide research paper on the effects of the “Colbert Bump.” From the press release: His analysis finds that Democrats who appear on The Colbert Report enjoy a significant increase in the number and total amount of donations they receive over the next 30?? days when compared to similar candidates who do not appear on the show. Specifically, Democrats who come on the program raise $8,247…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the cyberattacks against Georgian websites will be on Morning Edition tomorrow (August 12). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC –…

These are the headlines that I’ve been reading this afternoon: The New York Times: On Slog to Safety, Seething at West One soldier, his face a mask of exhaustion, cradled a Kalashnikov. “We killed as many of them as we could,” he said. “But where are our friends?” It was the question of the day. As Russian forces massed Sunday on two fronts, Georgians were heading south with whatever they could carry. When they met Western journalists, they all said…

Becky and I are moving to Lyon next month. I leave Oakland in exactly six weeks (OMG! SIX WEEKS!) for a weekend trip to DC to visit my cousins and will go to France from there on September 21. So, who’s got leads on apartments in Lyon? We want something in the 3è (near Part-Dieu), have 500 euros max to spend and ideally would like the place to be furnished. We’d need it from October 1 2008 to May 1…