Izzy Dot Net - Your Friendly Internet Service Provider
january 2009 by bkerr
'Welcome to our home on the World Wide Web ... Are you looking for a way to link back to Izzy Dot Net? Check out our "link back" page for an assortment of linking graphics.'
annarbor
detritus
party-like-it's-199x
via:mahatm
january 2009 by bkerr
mycrocosm | bkerr's datasets > white noise
august 2008 by bkerr
relative lengths of chapters in _White Noise_ — "Waves and Radiation:" 1-20; "The Airborne Toxic Event:" 21; "Dylarama:" 22-40.
white
noise
humans/delillo
cybernetics
detritus
warning:selflink
august 2008 by bkerr
mycrocosm
august 2008 by bkerr
"a web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs"
cybernetics
detritus
data
visualization
clever
via:mark.larios
august 2008 by bkerr
Sweet Juniper! | It will rise from the ashes
january 2008 by bkerr
The old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository: "Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice."
detroit
detritus
michigan
rustbelt
book
preservation
entropy
archive
big-here
january 2008 by bkerr
Dickeyville Grotto, Dickeyville, WI
january 2008 by bkerr
"Perhaps it is the humble nature of the materials set in the stone, everything from crystals, stone and petrified wood, to broken glass, commemorative china and seashells."
grotto
artifice
religionists
roadside
detritus
wisconsin
january 2008 by bkerr
Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology
august 2007 by bkerr
"Charles Bigelow posted this article to the Usenet newsgroup `comp.fonts` in May 1994 in response to the question: What's the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman?"
times-new-roman
versus
times-roman
usenet
detritus
comp.fonts
linotype
monotype
legal
maneuvering
news-corp
adobe
postscript
width
proportion
detail
truetype
atm
font-scaling
digital
fontologist
august 2007 by bkerr
GameSetWatch | Wanna Be In The Star Wars Galaxies Wrecking Crew?
april 2007 by bkerr
Stalwart players of last year's MMOwhatever get in-game funny money for demolishing structures belonging to their erstwhile colleagues who -- having migrated to this year's MMOwhatever -- left abandoned shacks and factories and junk littering the terrain.
mmowhatever
online
games
ergodic
detritus
cyberkipple
peer-destruction
how-buildings-burn
a-sense-of-an-ending
april 2007 by bkerr
Shorpy | Rush Hour, Detroit: 1942
april 2007 by bkerr
"Traffic at 5:30 on 2nd Avenue at West Grand Boulevard, Detroit. July 1942 ... The picture was taken from the 28-story Fisher Building (green copper roof) across the street." Count the streetcars.
detroit
detritus
michigan
images
past
public
transportation
april 2007 by bkerr
Shorpy | The Motor City: 1942
april 2007 by bkerr
"Looking south along Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building at Warren Avenue, with downtown Detroit in the distance. July 1942 ... Note the yellow streetcars -- at least four."
detroit
detritus
michigan
images
past
public
transportation
april 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
march 2007 by bkerr
George on Rep. Walberg's quote: "What's great about this is that the analogy is arguing that 80% of Iraq and Detroit are 'reasonably under control' which means the guy is using Detroit as a point somewhere on the line between IEDs and Broadway musicals."
detroit
detritus
michigan
rustbelt
real-estate
future
combat
employee
compensation
etc
march 2007 by bkerr
detroitblog | Wrong side of the tracks
march 2007 by bkerr
Pictures from State Fair.
detroit
detritus
michigan
tragedy
march 2007 by bkerr
jeweled platypus | A better resting place than an elevator
march 2007 by bkerr
"On the edge of a grocery-store parking lot in an obscure part of Glendale, there is a cart cemetery."
shopping-cart
urban
retail
detritus
rust
via:britta
march 2007 by bkerr
Magnum Photos - Slate | "Spaceship Junkyard"
april 2006 by bkerr
Spacejunk integrated into daily life.
space
detritus
april 2006 by bkerr
AlterNet | Roomba cockfight
march 2006 by bkerr
"The rumble ended as a battle royal between three Roombas decked out with shark fins, LEDs, ballpoint pens, and scissors."
vacuum
battler
robot
combat
detritus
entropy
mayhem
march 2006 by bkerr
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