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Izzy Dot Net - Your Friendly Internet Service Provider
'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
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
"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
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
"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
"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?
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
"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
"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
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
jeweled platypus | A better resting place than an elevator
"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
AlterNet | Roomba cockfight
"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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