Cyrus Farivar

Forbes.com: T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless provider, also said it has not worked with the government: “T-Mobile is not a participant in any NSA program for warrant-less surveillance and acquisition of call records,” a spokesman for the Deutsche Telekom company said in an e-mail. “T-Mobile has not provided any such access to communications or customer records.”

NYT, Today, fifth graf: One senior government official, who was granted anonymity to speak publicly about the classified program, confirmed that the N.S.A. had access to records of most telephone calls in the United States. MOST !?!?

While today is a celebration of all my friends who are finally graduating Berkeley, there’s also a tinge of sadness. Cody’s Books, my all-time favorite bookstore is closing its flagship store on Telegraph Ave. on July 10. While my local favorite bookstore growing up was Dutton’s in Brentwood (Los Angeles), Cody’s was always my real favorite. It was the bookstore of choice of my grandparents, longtime Berkeley kids since 1921. Many a birthday/holiday present has been bought at Cody’s —…

NYT: Iranian’s Letter to Bush Emerges Um, guys, this letter isn’t from just any Iranian — IT’S FROM THE PRESIDENT! And if you’re curious, you can read the letter (in English translation) here (PDF).

NYT: “I love my country, but I hate these mullahs,” said Houshang Samandi, a television director for an Iranian satellite channel whose life in Los Angeles remains so completely Iranian that after 14 years he still asks a fellow exile to translate the word “sanctions.” “Sanctions will only harm the ordinary people,” Mr. Samandi said. “If there is a military attack, they will be killing my people. But if they don’t attack, the mullahs will never leave.” I think this…

2 Tickets Dodgers vs. Giants May 12 Section 144, Row 5 – $50 Update: They’ve been sold.

I was at my grandparents’ house the other day, and found out some more information on my great-great-grandfather, Sidney Forward Hadsell: SIDNEY F. HADSELL. A well-known educator and business man of Fresno county, Sidney F. Hadsell is a worthy representative, born in Calhoun county, Mich. July 13, 1843, a son of Martin and Susan (Forward) Hadsell. The former, a native of Connecticut, went to New York, thence to Ohio, and finally, in 1837, located in Michigan near Battle Creek, where…

If I wasn’t already settled in Oakland, I might consider this. RADIO, TELEVISION STRINGER POSITION VOICE OF AMERICA – DAKAR, SENEGAL Looking for Television/Radio reporter to become stringer based in Dakar, Senegal for Voice of America, West and Central Africa bureau. Great experience for recent graduates with interest in international reporting. Recent stringers have gone on to work for Bloomberg, United Nations news services, al-Jazeera English, DPA German news service, German television, CNN, NPR … New position is opening up…

JournalismJobs: JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world? Karen Breslau [San Francisco bureau chief, Newsweek]: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger for a good story. In that sense, a good newsmagazine story is the un-blog: it’s richly reported, it’s coherent, it puts things into context, it gives you ideas to think about for more than 3 seconds and for God’s sake,…

Ron Thompson’s Feet, Caffè Trieste, Berkeley Photo by Alan Wiig