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Over the weekend, I did an interview with Cyrus Irani (who is of Parsi/Indian origin, not Iranian, despite his name) of Strix Systems. They’re building WiFi in Macedonia. It “aired” today on The World’s Technology Podcast: Download it here. I’ll have a piece on The World (broadcast locally here on KQED every weekday at 2 pm) coming up in the next couple weeks. Thanks to Clark Boyd for making this possible.

Macworld: Whether you’re a hardcore gamer or just someone with few reliable games you play to blow off steam, this is the week for you at Macworld.com. We’re concentrating on Mac games, as we induct 10 new titles into Macworld’s Game Hall of Fame, located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (Why Pittsfield? Because way back when, the original author of the Hall of Fame feature, Steven Levy, decided the fictional Hall of Fame should be located in his hometown, where it’s remained…

I just finished this book two days ago. I bought it right before I went to Istanbul, breaking my own book-buying moratorium. (I have 10+ books that I’ve bought or have been given to me that I haven’t read yet.) It was very interesting, and in a lot of ways was an impressionist painting of the city of Istanbul. My main problem with it? It doesn’t have much of a narrative or momentum. It’s a series of varying length mini-essays…

Slate: By Cyrus Farivar Posted Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at 3:31 PM ET At the World Summit on the Information Society two weeks ago, MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the laptop he believes will digitize the developing world. The cute green computer sports a WiFi card, a 500 MHz processor, a 1 gigabyte flash drive, and a novel power source—a 6-inch hand crank that juts out from the side. It will run free, open-source software, most likely some derivation of Linux.…

Today I woke up uncertain, and you know that gives me the fits, so I left this land of fungible convictions, because it seemed like the pits And when I say, “conviction”, I mean it’s something to abjure and when I say “uncertain”, I mean to doubt I’ll not turn out a caricature. So I set off in search of my forbears, ‘coz my forebearance was in need. — Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, “Ballad of the Sin Eater” So…

You have Thanksgiving dinner with rice and “khoresht.” (STEW) Yep, at our Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of my LA-based Persian extended family, we had baghali polo and grilled fish alongside our turkey, potatoes and stuffing.

BBC: “We will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats,” said Veselin Gatalo of the youth group Urban Movement Mostar. “But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee.”

Wanderlustgeek.com ! First episode includes a chat about spending Thanksgiving abroad with Bhu and Lane.

NYT: “Unless you get a critical mass of bishops and religious superiors who say, Now we can’t admit any gay men, I don’t think it’s going to have any discernible effect,” Father Bretzke said. “There are lots of excellent gay priests and seminarians, and we have a priest shortage. We’re not exactly in a buyer’s market here. If you’re not going to ordain gay men, and not going to ordain married men, and not going to ordain women, well then…

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