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Check it: Cyrus Farivar * Journalist’s article is getting vandalized in a variety of ways by multiple users for exposing an Internet hoax (“greenlighting”). –Tysto 23:09, 2005 August 1 (UTC)

My Wikipedia entry now says that I’m Arnold Schoenberg.

So a new round of Wikipedia “Vote for Deletion” has been added to my entry: I’ve currently got support from Adrian Lamo and Jason Snell! Voting currently stands at 3 to keep and 2 to delete. This whole thing is really hilarious. For more on this, see the comments from the last entry. This pretty much sums up how I feel about this: I understand your concern, I just happen to disagree with it. If my entry were guilty of…

So my Slate article, not surprisingly, has drawn new attention to my Wikipedia entry, which had lay quiet for awhile. Vandalism returned, and the Wiki vigilantes have come to my rescue, and I’ve popped in to edit my own entry once or twice. I’ve drawn the attention of a few people, including one Todd Morman, who wrote in from North Carolina to say that I’d violated the Wikipedia policy of vanity pages. My response is as follows: Todd, Thanks so…

If you’ve found my blog courtesy of Slate/Wikipedia, I’d love to hear from you. Email me!

Green Collar Crime How I stopped an Internet sex hoax. By Cyrus Farivar Posted Monday, Aug. 1, 2005, at 9:31 AM PT A tip for all of you aspiring investigative reporters: When you expose an Internet sex hoax, there are going to be consequences. Take it from me. My sleuthing got me an unplanned role in a piece of erotic fiction that starred Chewbacca as a Wookiee Casanova. It all started on the weekend of July 4, when I spotted…

Ed: Will someone please explain to me why free trade is good in North (NAFTA) and Central America (CAFTA) , but not to, say, China? Protectionist policies are so 19th century. C’mon guys, get with it. NYT: WASHINGTON, July 28 – It was just before midnight on Wednesday when Representative Robin Hayes capitulated. Mr. Hayes, a Republican whose district in North Carolina has lost thousands of textile jobs in the last four years, had defied President Bush and House Republican…

WashPost: An organization of top American Muslim religious scholars plans to issue a formal ruling today condemning terrorism and forbidding Muslims to cooperate with anyone involved in a terrorist act, according to officials of two leading Islamic organizations. The one-page ruling, or fatwa, will be issued by the Fiqh Council of North America, an association of Islamic legal scholars that interprets Islamic law for the Muslim community. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group, said…

BBC: Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised – a “female” android called Repliee Q1. She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are…

Ed: So after not having much luck with pitching my thesis as a freelance piece, I’m making my Master’s thesis on the Chinatown bus scene in New York publicly available. If any magazine/newspaper editor reads this and wants to publish it, talk to me. Until then, enjoy. Ho, 28, runs his single van and three buses on the weekend along his New York – Boston route. Boston Deluxe is the upstart on this route. His two competitors are much larger…