Radio Stations on the web

WPFW - Pacifica/Jazz from Washington, DC
KZSU - Stanford University's radio station; very eclectic format
KPFA - Berkeley Pacifica station
C-SPAN radio - from 90.1 in Washington, DC

Online references

Cybertimes Navigator
yourDictionary.com
Columbia Encyclopedia
Babelfish translator
Street Maps:

Weblog:

Thursday, July 25 2002

Tech Interview Riddles

A long collection of riddles from tech job interviews.

Wednesday, July 24 2002

AskTog: On Sex & Violence

Old AskTog column, from November 2001, comparing the effect of the terrorist attacks last year on the American psyche to the effects of the rise of herpes on the American psyche.

Sunday, July 14 2002

Mitnick talks about controlling Sprint's telephone network

In a trial in which "adult entertainment operator" Eddie Munoz is suing Sprint for not taking steps to stop other porn bizmen from hacking Sprint's systems to divert business from Munoz, hacker Kevin Mitnick is providing details of how he was able to gain control of Las Vegas telecommunications systems years ago.

Pumping Gas at Home

Soon, you'll be able to buy a home refueling station for your compressed natural gas vehicles. Cheaper gas, better for the environment...

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About this site

This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

Some online projects I'm working on

eppi.com : my one-man web development corp. (I'm for hire)
voteprotect.org : I'm helping build the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS), and we could really use some volunteer sysadmins and PHP programmers interested in safeguarding democracy...

Politics

Talking Points Memo
Daily Kos
MoveOn
Contact your elected officials

Charity, Non-profits...

A while ago, I decided to put my money where my mind is on a (roughly) monthly basis and give to:

9/2005: Project Open Hand
8/2005: ACORN
7/2005: KPFA
6/2005: KALW
5/2005: EFF
4/2005: OxFam America
3/2005: ACLU
2/2005: Free the Slaves
1/2005: San Francisco Food Bank
12/2004: Amnesty International
11/2004: FreeBSD Foundation
10/2004: Union of Concerned Scientists
9/2004: Project Open Hand
8/2004: VerifiedVoting.org
7/2004: KPFA radio
6/2004: KALW radio
5/2004: John Kerry for President
4/2004: OxFam America
3/2004: ACLU
2/2004: Electronic Frontier Foundation
1/2004: Amnesty International
12/2003: Alternet/TomPaine.com
11/2003: San Francisco Food Bank
10/2003: MoveOn.org
9/2003: Free the Slaves
8/2003: KPFA radio
7/2003: Union of Concerned Scientists
6/2003: Project Open Hand
5/2003: UNICEF
4/2003: OxFam America
3/2003: ACLU
2/2003: Electronic Frontier Foundation
1/2003: Common Cause

Photos

Public events documented through pictures...

1. Jan. 18, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
2. Feb. 16, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
3. March 15, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest
4. Power to the Peaceful Festival, Spearhead's free 2003 concert in Golden Gate Park
5. Oct. 25, 2003 San Francisco bring-the-troops-home rally
6. Halloween in the Castro, 2003
7. Love Parade San Francisco, October 2004
8. Folsom Street Fair 2004
9. Power to the Peaceful 2004
10. Halloween in the Castro, 2004
11. Illusion 3 at the MCCLA
12. Burning Man 2005
13. Halloween in the Castro, 2005

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