Journalism

If you’re in San Francisco or Los Angeles, you can catch my piece at the top of the show on the Salinas taco truck situation at 6 pm tonight on KQED (88.5) or KPCC (89.3), respectively. It’ll air in Salinas on KHDC (91.5) on Tuesday at 5 pm. Or, if you don’t feel like doing that, you can listen on the Latino USA site here! Big ups to Melanie Wong, David Boyk (who if you listen hard can be heard…

The powers that be have told me that my piece on Yotel will air today on The World (and of course on the Internet on any of these stations’ 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 Eastern – WGBH – 89.7 FM –…

Hey, so I didn’t know 100 percent that I was going to be on The World yesterday, so my apologies. But my piece talked about my recent trip to Rotterdam, and the Sites and Stories project that they’ve got going on there. One highlight? The Bram Ladage fries shop (pictured). Audio is here! Also, I will be on Latino USA with a piece on Salinas taco trucks next weekend.

Universities Install Footbaths to Benefit Muslims, and Not Everyone Is Pleased The New York Times August 7, 2007 But as a legal and political matter, that solution has not been quite so simple. When word of the plan got out this spring, it created instant controversy, with bloggers going on about the Islamification of the university, students divided on the use of their building-maintenance fees, and tricky legal questions about whether the plan is a legitimate accommodation of students’ right…

The powers that be have told me that my piece updating the Estonian cyberattack situation will air today on The World (and of course on the Internet on any of these stations’ 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 Eastern – WGBH –…

Longtime readers of this blog may remember that I did a piece on MobMov, a “guerilla drive-in” last summer for The World. Today, the Chronicle decided to do a piece on it as well. I suppose I should have pitched it to the Chronicle myself. A year ago.

PC Magazine: ARTICLE DATE: 07.11.07 By Cyrus Farivar You may want to think twice before swiping your credit card at your favorite store. In January, the parent company of Marshalls and T.J. Maxx stores revealed that over 45 million credit and debit card numbers had been stolen from its databases. In the wake of this and other egregious slip-ups, legislators are calling for new federal blanket laws to protect consumers. Currently, a tangle of state and local laws leaves consumers…

Me and seven of my most intrepid friends went camping this weekend at Big Trees. Our stuff got tossed around by a bear cub that we dubbed Floyd — he put minor slashes in my tent and broke one of the poles while we were away hiking around Lake Alpine on Saturday. An inconvenience to be sure, but everything turned out ok. In other news, here’s what I’m reading these days: Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos (SJ Merc, June…

Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar June 26, 2007 There’s an old saying: “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” That now applies to supercomputers as well. Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, weighing in with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance. The computer, which has been dubbed “Ranger,” will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. It…

Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar 05.29.07 | 2:00 AM Researchers claim to have developed the first mathematical model for creating invisibility simulations on a computer, but possible real-world applications — say, a gadget that works like Harry Potter’s cloak — so far seem far-fetched. In the May 1 issue of Optics Letters, a team of scientists published a paper outlining a “numeric simulation” for cloaking. The software program recreates a breakthrough 2006 experiment, run by David Smith and David Shurig…