Cyrus Farivar

So there’s a really important phone interview that I’ve been trying to set up for months now, and I just missed it. Fuck. He’s in another country, and usually when I schedule interviews across time zones, I just figure out when the interview will be, my time, and input that into iCal with an alarm. However, the time difference between California (ok, plus the other 49) and the rest of the world changed last weekend — and while that normally…

CQ: Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists. The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area. The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd…

I got an early-morning email and did this top-of-the-hour spot news piece on Google’s new announcement. Google – November 5 2007

I’ve been informed that my radio piece on Facebook will air on Morning Edition tomorrow! 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 – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 6 am…

NYT: by Cyrus Farivar Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cellphones, has been running ads that read, “Open to Anything” and “Unlock your potential.” The company wants cellphone buyers to know that its phones can be used with whatever carrier they choose, unlike a certain other phone that has been getting considerably more attention lately: Apple’s iPhone. That phone is locked, meaning it is intended to be used with AT&T, the only carrier Apple chose in the United States. A…

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As you all know, I’m a freelancer. That means I never know when my next paycheck is going to arrive in my mailbox. But whatever, generally it works out. Usually, it takes a little bit of time from when I do the piece to when I get paid for it. I recognize that I’m not the only one that these places need to pay, but really, how hard is it to get your freelancers a check, on time? Let’s take…

Apparently this has been making the rounds online, but it’s still pretty freakin’ funny. Gabe has also written these gems: Worker #3116 to Be a Father SUMMERSLANG 2005 It’s a great way to kill about 10 minutes this Friday afternoon. 🙂

I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the German teams at the DARPA Urban Challenge in Victorville, CA will air on The World, today! Will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 3 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm…