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Stuff.co.nz: The cost of bringing justice to remote Pitcairn Island has already topped $14 million NZ, and there are several sex crime hearings still to go. That’s about $9 mil US. That’s over $200,000 US spent on each of the 42 residents. Wow.

The World: Today’s answer is Senegal. The World’s David Leveille talks to a new Peace Corps volunteer there to find out what life is like for someone who’s recently been dropped in completely unfamiliar territory. Listen here.

I realized I can’t go, but would like to go on the 16th or the 18th. Wanna trade or buy my tickets?

But many San Franciscans left the city permanently. Oakland’s population doubled to 150,000 between 1900 and 1910, spurred by the earthquake and developers Francis “Borax” Smith and Frank Havens. There was also a big jump in population in Marin and on the Peninsula. All these new suburbs, however, were stained by the racism of the time. The promoters of the new Rockridge Tract in Oakland distributed a leaflet that said, “It is probably unnecessary even to mention that no one…

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…