The Ann Arbor Chronicle » FOIA Update: Printed vs. Electronic Records
june 2009 by bkerr
The cost of a single CD-ROM is lower than several thousand sheets of paper, many of which bear an admonition to “Think Green!” and to print out the the email only if necessary.
annarbor
chronicle
city
council
e-mail
foia
failures
june 2009 by bkerr
buh bye ad club • mitten rants, raves and muses about life, art and the web
march 2009 by bkerr
"I wrote a note today to let them know their member search was broken. Apparently, they’ll fix it this summer and if it I want it sooner, then I should volunteer. Well, um, no - I don’t think so. I pay dues and those dues are supposed to provide me benefits. If I’m not getting dinner and I’m not getting exposure, then what, exactly are you doing with my membership dollars?"
annarbor
ad
club
and
other
failures
march 2009 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Susan Pollay
march 2009 by bkerr
"Susan Pollay is the executive director of the DDA. She served as part of the DDA team which chose to deny server access to a third-party website which aggregated and re-hosted the data. She provided several reasons for the access denial, which are summarized here."
susan-pollay
and
other
failures
arborwiki
annarbor
march 2009 by bkerr
Ann Arbor Smackdown | MetaFilter
march 2009 by bkerr
"Ann Arbor has proven that it can have a tempest in a teapot as ridiculous as those that occur on a daily basis in Berkeley" ... "Parking spots available over the web. Posthumanity is here."
annarbor
and
other
failures
march 2009 by bkerr
AP -- Interest low, Segway user group folds
august 2007 by bkerr
"The Segway Enthusiasts Group of America is disbanding because of inactivity and an absence of candidates for its board of directors."
segway
failures
user
group
reconfigured-cities
etc
august 2007 by bkerr
The Long Tail | Why I gave up on Second Life
august 2007 by bkerr
There's nobody there, redux: "Maybe, but I can only manage what I can measure. And in terms of things that I value, such as links, smart comments, traffic to my blog, etc, the SL appearance might as well have never happened."
ghostly
secondlife
failures
there's-nobody-there
via:vielmetti
august 2007 by bkerr
Blog About Town | Harperizing the 'New Yorker' Cartoon Caption Contest
june 2007 by bkerr
"Now that The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest has hit the century mark (100 weekly contests, that is), it lends itself to some statistical analysis -- and I'm just the man to screw that up!"
newyorker
magazine
peer-production
back-page
backlash
unfunny
cartoon
failures
via:liana
june 2007 by bkerr
The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer
april 2007 by bkerr
"Subject: carbonite transport device" -- "Right now anyone can walk up to this thing and flip a few switches to release the frozen prisoner. I'm thinking a number pad with a secret code would be great, or heck, even a plain old key."
starwars
industrial
design
failures
via:srah
april 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Live from the Megabus
april 2007 by bkerr
"I hear a scream. It is the bridal party having fun. I have not slept yet." Reader commentary: "Wow, Free Press, this is really incredible journalism."
detroit
annarbor
chicago
megabus
public
transportation
journalism
failures
via:vielmetti
april 2007 by bkerr
Arguing With Ghosts
march 2007 by bkerr
"Sometimes you're tricked into starting a discussion with people who are no longer active on this Wiki, but still have their AncientGraffiti all over it. It makes you feel silly."
ghost
argument
ghost-horses
wiki
process
continuous
presence
failures
ancientgraffiti
march 2007 by bkerr
History of the Button | Stop icon: a question answered
january 2007 by bkerr
Followup to previous post
physical
interaction
design
failures
buttons
icons
january 2007 by bkerr
History of the Button | Printer icons: Design by habit
january 2007 by bkerr
"These are Start and Stop icons from various multifunction printers. They include a diamond with a vertical line in the middle to indicate Start and a circle circumscribing an inverted triangle to indicate Stop. It’s obviously a trend."
physical
interaction
design
failures
buttons
icons
january 2007 by bkerr
New York Times | Park, He Said, by Calvin Trillin
january 2007 by bkerr
Calvin Trillin in a self-parking Lexus, which "works only if the spot is six and a half feet longer than the car — the sort of spot, in other words, that the average Manhattan parker comes upon about once every 14 or 15 years."
automatic
automotive
parking
failures
january 2007 by bkerr
Google Video | Windows 386 Promo Video
january 2007 by bkerr
This is seriously worth two and a half minutes of your time (starting at 7:00).
microsoft
marketing
failures
wtf-mate
january 2007 by bkerr
Mac OS X 10.4: Stay away from the SyncServices folder
january 2007 by bkerr
"As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4." Gotta love these useless Apple KB articles.
mac
kb
failures
january 2007 by bkerr
The Sneeze | O Holy Crap
december 2006 by bkerr
"What I love about it is just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once, building to the most glorious mess I've ever heard. I smile every time I hear it."
musical
failures
december 2006 by bkerr
What to do in a Terrorist Attack
december 2006 by bkerr
"If your lungs and stomach start talking, stand with your arms akimbo until they stop."
visual
communication
failures
terrorism
politics
via:deusx
december 2006 by bkerr
The Eclectic Company | I ♥ Kukulkan
december 2006 by bkerr
Review of "Apocalypto" (and description of a movie I'd pay to watch) -- "If Mel Gibson had made the Passion to the same formula, Jesus would have escaped from the cross, swum the Mediterranean, and wound up assassinating Julius Caesar and Hitler."
movies
failures
december 2006 by bkerr
University of Michigan HFES | Bad Designs on Campus Contest
october 2006 by bkerr
"The U of M student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is hosting a Bad Designs On Campus competition. During the month of October, any U of M student can submit a description of something on campus that they feel is designed poorly."
campus
design
failures
fuckup
contest
october 2006 by bkerr
First Monday | Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis
september 2006 by bkerr
OK, this article is an academic assload of fluff wrapped around a buggy, flimsy-looking color-coded diff for MediaWiki.
wiki
diff
recentchanges
ui
design
failures
september 2006 by bkerr
WorldNetDaily | Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water
september 2006 by bkerr
"He took his congregation to the beach saying he would walk across the Komo estuary, which takes 20 minutes by boat. He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."
failures
oops
september 2006 by bkerr
This Is Broken | Hawking book cover
august 2006 by bkerr
"It always aggravates me when libraries and bookstores put price tags or barcodes on the covers of books, often obscuring the title, author, or part of the synopsis on the back." The photo is worth a look.
library
design
failures
book
august 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Category:Incomplete lists
may 2006 by bkerr
A list of all of the lists in the "Incomplete lists" category.
wikipedia
classification
failures
list
may 2006 by bkerr
TNI Publications | Why do Progressive Foundations Give too Little to too Many?, by Michael Shuman
may 2006 by bkerr
Originally published in The Nation, January 12, 1998.
nonprofit
biz
foundation
$
entropy
process
failures
may 2006 by bkerr
CNN.com | Rice: Don't take Iraq errors 'literally' - Apr 1, 2006
april 2006 by bkerr
Regarding "thousands" of tactical errors in Bush Administration, "the secretary of state says she was speaking 'figuratively, not literally.'"
politics
batshit
language
numeracy
failures
april 2006 by bkerr
CIA - The World Factbook | World
april 2006 by bkerr
"For the 21st century, the continued exponential growth in science and technology raises both hopes (e.g., advances in medicine) and fears (e.g., development of even more lethal weapons of war)."
world
classification
failures
april 2006 by bkerr
MSNBC | No passion for Easter Bunny at church show
march 2006 by bkerr
"Many parents and children got upset when a church trying to teach about Jesus’ crucifixion performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs."
holiday
failures
ideas/bad
march 2006 by bkerr
Media Mac
march 2006 by bkerr
This Powerbook mod is too gross to not bookmark. It's like the giant centipede pulverizing that mouse -- I just can't look away.
mac
failures
march 2006 by bkerr
Michigan Daily | Lack of plan dooms wireless
february 2006 by bkerr
Bob Frost: "It's going to take a lot of meetings and just general bullshit to get this done right."
umich
wifi
failures
february 2006 by bkerr
Error10
december 2005 by bkerr
"We like strange Mac errors and would be thrilled to recieve your weirdest screenshots to broaden this fine collection."
apple
mac
spectacular
failures
december 2005 by bkerr
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