This written by an Iranian alum of an American university. He/she asked us to re-post this message. /// Dear all, My other email is down by the gov. hence I have been able to hack into this unsuspecting email account. Things are turning very violent here for Iranians – last night at least 90 were [...]

The summer interns from Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation were invited to Google headquarters in Mountain View today for a brief tour of the campus and lunch at one of the company’s legendary cafeterias.  Here is my photo essay of the excursion: Creative Commons interns do the Google.

Pizzeria Bianco 623 E Adams St Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602) 258-8300 Ok, this is my last restaurant review for the day.  I’ve finally caught up with my backlog of blog posts. This place hardly needs another review, but let’s just say that it is one of the first places I go for dinner whenever I [...]

Photo: Buddha of the Balada Mandalay Restaurant 4348 California St., in the Inner Richmond San Francisco, CA 94118 415-386-3895 OR 415-386-3896 The restaurant review marathon continues (I’m catching up after a week or two of eating). Kris and I try to get out to Mandalay in the Richmond as much as possible, despite the slightly [...]

Mifune Restaurant Japan Center Kintetsu Building 1737 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115 Kris and I went to Mifune in Japantown for lunch last Saturday for some old-school Japanese food.  We had mixed tempura, fried oysters (kaki-fry), and zaru soba (cold buckwheat noodles with dipping sauce). We washed it down with some Koshihikari Echigo beer, [...]