It has a big photo of somebody in the bar, but I didn't see a caption or text to say that it was the actual guy.

The article just says they rang him and spoke briefly and tersely on the telephone for a half a minute or so.

His Flikr photos were put up on Flikr (a very public site) by him, not by Gizmodo.

Edit: I suppose they might have gotten that pic from his Flikr site -- dunno about that. I didn't invade the geek's privacy space by going there to look.

Cheers