Cyrus Farivar

The year was 1906, and the citizens of San Francisco must have found it a wildly incongruous sight–grown men at child’s play in the midst of tragedy. Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned. The disaster began with an earthquake in the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, and when the fires were extinguished three days later, at least two hundred thousand San Francisco residents were homeless. Yet on the afternoon of May…

And to the rest of the Sun Herald for winning a 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Awarded to the Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., for its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need. You might remember these guys from Dancing with Katrina, and from Mike’s mooning of Katrina. I guess I can say I knew them (or at least Mike, whom I know a little better) from…

In case you want to type less letters when you email me, I can now also be reached at cyrus [at] farivar [dot] eu . Sometime within the next 24 hours, farivar.eu will forward to my blog.

This just came over the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alum listserv: Managing Editor, Penthouse Variations. The Penthouse Media Group, a bi-coastal publishing and multimedia company globally recognized as a premier brand in adult entertainment seeks a managing editor to join its dynamic Editorial Team. This is a rare and ideal opportunity for a talented individual to become part of something special. Assist Executive Editor with editorial production on a daily basis, as well as trafficking monthly production components.…

Apparently because of the genius of my previous post, Om Malik asked me to convert it into a longer entry for his blog. And so I did. He now owes me a sandwich.

So my AT&T (formerly SBC) DSL costs me $40 a month for DSL service and a landline phone that I never use. My contract is up in early June, so I decided to explore my options for DSL in the area. I don’t want Cable, because I don’t need the TV service, as I don’t have a TV. What I found out: – Comcast will sell you just Internet for $60/month. In the words of Om Malik “Not bad for…

The Castro Valley Community Band will be concluding their 2005-2006 season with a Spring Concert next Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 pm. Admission is FREE. We will be performing classical selections by Strauss and Ravel along with more popular numbers such as music by Chicago, Abba, and John Williams. The concert will be held at the brand-new Castro Valley Center for the Arts, on the Castro Valley High School campus. Castro Valley High School 19400 Santa Maria Ave Castro Valley,…

Alameda Times-Star: OAKLAND — Ice falling from the sky might seem unusual, but some Spanish and American scientists say it is becoming a frequent occurrence throughout the world. Like the estimated 200-plus-pound chunk that fell Saturday on Bushrod Park, clear ice from the sky has been reported around the world. Big and small ice-falls have happened in China, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Scotland, Hungary, England, India and more than half of the United States — often in summer and some…

Alright, I’ll admit it, I’m a map junkie. And I’m also a sucker for foreign policy discussion. So this morning, I find a link in the Canadian Cartographic Association’s blog an entry about one Prof. Thomas P.M. Barnett, who has this new book called The Pentagon’s New Map. His thesis is as follows: “The maps on these pages show all United States military responses to global crises from 1990 to 2002. Notice that a pattern emerges. Any time American troops…

MuniWireless.com: BART/Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCPJA), the operators of the Capitol Corridor commuter train, are asking the telecommunications industry to help them take the next big step in providing mobile broadband services, including Internet, email, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access, video downloads and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to their riders’ laptops, PDAs and cell phones—while the Capitol Corridor train is moving at full speed between Auburn and San Jose. Results of the initial technical trials will lead toward…