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Carr & Kerr Genealogy
genealogy  past  warning:indirect-selflink  warning:music 
september 2008 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Red's Rite Spot
Red's was in the space where Frank's restaurant is today. The layout and the food were similar to what Frank's has been offering since. Red and his crew were quite irreverent with customers but all in good fun. I am pretty sure that the building of the Tower Plaza was the cause of Red's closing. The construction closed Maynard for many months. One day I remember finding a sign in the window that said something like "Tuesday, Red went broke."
arborwiki  lunch  past 
august 2008 by bkerr
YouTube - Wilhelm Scream Compilation
wilhelm  scream  past  present  future 
october 2007 by bkerr
Paul Krugman - New York Times Blog | Return of the rentier city
cities  past  geo  bio  eco  cyclical  future 
october 2007 by bkerr
Teeter Talk: Edward Vielmetti
teeter-totter  teeter  twitter  talk  hd  plus  emv  survey  football  parking  bird-hills  park  gps  aata  microfilms  teh-googe  digitization  godin  MOAR  pedometer  walking-is-the-resource  laundry  fairy  doors  burns-park  nsfnet  reunion  annarbor  networks  retro  shining  past  amtrak  trains  ARB  CHI  delay  a2b3  bibimbop  mega  lunch  ron-suarez  city-council-promovuz-music-promotion-sales-loveme-loveme  stickers  stickers-around-annarbor  placement  advertising  maps  marquette  portland  beijing  alumni 
september 2007 by bkerr
AboutUs | Portal:PortlandTech/HighTechnologyInPortland
portland  tech  biz  nano  history  past  party-like-it's-194x  tektronix  esi  intel  fab  isp  web  linux  wiki  oscon  future  party-like-it's-200x  here-come-the-planes 
august 2007 by bkerr
Odd Ends | A Psychological Question
From the Ann Arbor Democrat, March 20, 1879: "The walking mania is at feverish height in this country to-day, and a very pretty dissertation might be written about the effects of legs upon the brain." Search the blog for more walking-related clippings.
walking  pedestrian  psychology  past  pedestrianism  spectacular  spectator  annarbor  sport  walkertracker  party-like-it's-187x  via:logista 
june 2007 by bkerr
Stumptown Confidential
"Documenting Portland, Oregon, [and occasionally the entire Northwest] architecture, history, and culture through photos, postcards, and words."
portland  history  weblogs  junk  past  postcards  clippings  photos  etc 
june 2007 by bkerr
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southeastern Michigan
airport  airfield  infrastructure  detritus  annarbor  detroit  michigan  past  invisible-airplane  via:vielmetti 
may 2007 by bkerr
New York Times | ‘The Joy of Drinking’ excerpt, book by Barbara Holland
Quoth britta: "a 'carefree history' tells the story of how 'civilization begins with fermentation.'"
drink  booze  alcohol  history  human  past  future  behavior  two-shots-of-happy  one-shot-of-sad 
may 2007 by bkerr
dessgeega blog | trip world
A little Game Boy green screen ramble, Sunsoft / 1992, never released stateside. It's gorgeous: "the prevailing mood of the game is of wonder tempered by fear, which is as appropriate a tone for an adventure as i can imagine."
games  retro  past  melancholy  transformative  wandering  adventure 
april 2007 by bkerr
Google Maps | Weird Ann Arbor
"Mobile Historical Society Presents: Weird Ann Arbor; or a perambulatory situationist endeavor."
annarbor  google  maps  history  weird  past 
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
The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? by James Grauerholz [PDF, 70 pages]
"In a Mexico City apartment, on the evening of September 6, 1951, a 37-year-old American man fatally shot his ten-years-younger American wife in the forehead with a .38-caliber automatic pistol, while aiming at a drinking glass balanced on her head."
burroughs  past  sex  drugs  literature  death  end-of-the-war-game 
march 2007 by bkerr
Category:Lost Ann Arbor - ArborWiki
"Doomed buildings + time = Lost Ann Arbor" I call putting Frieze Building in this category when the day comes
annarbor  buildings  nostalgia  past  arborwiki 
february 2007 by bkerr
Harpers.org | The Ecstasy of Influence, a plagiarism by Jonathan Lethem
art  writing  music  creativity  process  peer-production  influence  plagiarism  cryptomnesia  past  future  design  inspiration  media  mediation  copyfight  economics  commerce  commons  etc 
february 2007 by bkerr
All This ChittahChattah | The Conversation, and The Technology
Collection of stills from "The Conversation," emphasis on the analog audio hardware.
movies  past  audio  production  images 
january 2007 by bkerr
Rhymes with Toaster | Flickr as Local History
Emergent photodocumentation of ice storm. "Flickr is such a great tool. The day after a local event, I can do a quick, simple search, and be able to find tons of wonderful, artistic photos to remember and share with anyone else in the world."
annarbor  weather  flickr  past  history  via:vielmetti 
january 2007 by bkerr
Photos of Paris flood, 1910
paris  past  waterborne-toxic-event  via:thedaniel 
january 2007 by bkerr
Intellivision Classic Video Game System / Action Network Games | Shark! Shark!
"It's survival of the fittest in the deep, dark waters of the ocean. And you're just a little fish! You must eat smaller fish to stay alive and grow. But you're not the only one struggling for survival."
games  intellivision  past  shark 
december 2006 by bkerr
Intellivision Classic Video Game System / Space Network Games | Space Battle
"The alien squadron is closing in on your Mother Ship. You're awesomely outnumbered, and they attack and attack... Flick on the situation map and analyze your position. Dispatch a fighter squadron toward the closest alien cluster."
games  past  intellivision  space  battle 
december 2006 by bkerr
The Desert of My Dreams | Noor in Games
Your CV-in-games. Great idea.
games  past  blogland 
december 2006 by bkerr
UKTV: News: Roman sarcophagus unearthed in London
"The ancient limestone sarcophagus was discovered in an area of London previously believed to have had no Roman settlements and experts claim that the find dramatically alters the map of Roman London."
london  england  roman  history  past 
december 2006 by bkerr
Vacuum | word hoard
beowulf  lit  poetry  past  language 
december 2006 by bkerr
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society | Rotary Reading Desk
I want one of these hooked up to a treadmill.
reading  furniture  design  past  awesome 
december 2006 by bkerr
upsideclown | Packet Loss
lit  sf  past  networks 
december 2006 by bkerr
THE OLAF STAPLEDON ONLINE ARCHIVE
"This site attempts to host works by Olaf Stapledon that are out of print. Now you've found it, click on the 'Online Works' section and enjoy!" AWESOME
lit  sf  past 
december 2006 by bkerr
MacTech | June 95 - Copland: The Mac OS Moves Into the Future, by Tim Dierks
Detailed overview of Apple's Copland OS, circa 1995.
apple  mac  copland  past 
december 2006 by bkerr
Zee-3 | Plok Archive
The Pickford Brothers' collection of sketches and memories re: underrated 1993 SNES game.
games  past 
november 2006 by bkerr
Asteroid's Revenge
Underdogs are overrated.
arcade  games  past  fun 
november 2006 by bkerr
MOON RIVER: gentlemen's pocket globes
"Pocket globes as viewed here were produced beginning in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and were often crafted of wood, ivory, and papier-mache. They relied on the engraver's art for the maps themselves."
portable  maps  past 
november 2006 by bkerr
Urban Oasis | Oh, Irony! Oh, Beautiful Muse!
An Arthur Miller -- Charles Walgreen connection/irony on U-M north campus.
umich  annarbor  theater  lit  labor  edu  past 
november 2006 by bkerr
mozdev.org - : /pipermail/camino/2004-December/002805 | [Camino] Fizzilla, CHBrowserView, Cocoazilla, Camino....., by Mike Pinkerton
"In the beginning, there was Mozilla. ... Then Apple released Mac OS X and they wanted a whole bunch of apps to run on it with limited tweaking."
mac  mozilla  camino  firefox  past 
october 2006 by bkerr
Cinematical | Shall We Play A Game... Again?
"This isn't the first time the world has been threatened by a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick vehicle and quintessential 80s flick War Games."
movies  war  games  past  future 
october 2006 by bkerr
Amazon.com | Teachings from the Electronic Brain: Music: The Future Sound of London
I listened to this over at Encore (yes, they had a used copy before the street date, gotta love it) and it's pretty boring. Too many tracks straight from Dead Cities instead of the fun alternate versions from later on.
best-of  music  past  fsol  amorphous-androgynous 
september 2006 by bkerr
YouTube | Public Videos // STAKKERHUMANOID
Nice collection of old Humanoid videos with notes by Brian Dougans.
electronic  music  past  video  fsol  amorphous-androgynous 
september 2006 by bkerr
Eccentric Eclectica | Eric Rabkin on Science Fiction and Perceptions of Nanotechnology
Todd's notes, very nicely done.
umich  lit  sf  science  future  past  medicine  nanocrap 
september 2006 by bkerr
Lee Miller Archives
"Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II ... being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images."
war  past  social  change  images  media  via:beyondthebeyond 
september 2006 by bkerr
AlterNet: WorkPlace | A Jungle For Meatpackers
Eric Schlosser's Upton Sinclair retrospective.
food  commerce  labor  lit  past 
september 2006 by bkerr
New York Magazine | What If 9/11 Never Happened?
past  future  security  politics  history 
august 2006 by bkerr
alan moore 60s comic ads
comics  nuclear  past  fun  via:thedaniel 
july 2006 by bkerr
FIRE, WHEEL MUSING
weblogs  past 
july 2006 by bkerr
Slate | Watching the Detectives - Richard Linklater adapts Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. By Joshua Glenn
lit  sf  movies  drugs  culture  past  future 
june 2006 by bkerr
Old Vogue magazine covers
We had prints from a little further into Vogue history in the kitchen at our previous apartment.
magazine  vogue  retro  images  past 
june 2006 by bkerr
owl015
This is my favorite macrame owl in the previously-linked set.
owls  photos  ideas/bad  past 
june 2006 by bkerr
A Treasury of Macrame Owls
owls  photos  ideas/bad  past 
june 2006 by bkerr
Classic Computer Magazine Archive
Indexes and full texts of seven early personal computer magazines.
computing  culture  magazine  past 
june 2006 by bkerr
Gutenkarte
"Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature."
lit  past  books  maps  cities  spaces  etc 
june 2006 by bkerr
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
"...is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and fort
lit  sf  fiction  bibliography  past  future  via:ryanmax 
june 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Bat bomb
"...release bomb-laden bats at night over Japanese industrial targets. The flying bats would disperse widely, then at dawn they would hide in buildings and shortly thereafter built-in timers would ignite the bombs, causing widespread fires and chaos."
war  tools  past  animals  bats 
may 2006 by bkerr
Wired 14.06 | The Myth of Superman, by Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers
comics  lit  sf  hero  past  superman 
may 2006 by bkerr
del.icio.us/tag/laborhistory
labor  past  del.icio.us 
may 2006 by bkerr
YouTube - They are made out of meat
7-minute film version of classic Terry Bisson story.
lit  sf  past  fun  movies 
may 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
And here's the (incomplete) English version of the site.
games  lit  sf  past 
april 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
Official site (in French) of the classic game known on these shores as "Out of This World."
games  lit  sf  past 
april 2006 by bkerr
Arcade Art
Vector-traced versions of critical arcade art including instruction cards, control overlays, etc.
games  past  visual  design  via:revgeorge 
april 2006 by bkerr
The Institute of Internet History
"An abridged history of the development of the Internet from its early routes for any interested reader, particularly school and college students."
internet  tech  past  via:anikarenina 
march 2006 by bkerr
The A.V. Club | Ray Harryhausen
movies  past  sf  monster 
march 2006 by bkerr
Five years of Mac OS X, by John Siracusa
Bonus points for coining a phrase: "the translucent fist of Mac OS X."
apple  mac  design  past 
march 2006 by bkerr
I AM 8 BIT
retro  games  past  art  lit  visual  design 
march 2006 by bkerr
AIGA Design Forum | Not Your Grandparent’s Clenched Fist
"In Detroit, the downtown fist sculpture was defaced with spray paint a few months ago, reminding the citizenry of its continuing ambiguities."
social  politics  symbol  past  images  visual  design 
march 2006 by bkerr
A brief history of the "clenched fist" image
social  politics  symbol  past  images  visual  design 
march 2006 by bkerr
Hardcore Gaming 101 | The Neverhood / Klaymen Klaymen
excellent  windows  games  past 
february 2006 by bkerr
Internet Archive | Detroit: City on the Move (1965)
"Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline."
urban  advertising  detroit  past  via:revgeorge 
february 2006 by bkerr
The New Gamer | Averaging Gradius
Composite video of 15 players working through level 1 of Gradius -- very cool.
games  past  humans  patterns  habit  process  via:revgeorge 
january 2006 by bkerr
New York Times | Detroit Polishes, and Demolishes, for the Super Bowl
detroit  politics  past  via:revgeorge 
january 2006 by bkerr
LowEndMac | Why BeOS Lost
beos  design  failures  past  apple  future 
january 2006 by bkerr
Transportation History Collection: Railroads
past  world  transportation  via:vielmetti 
january 2006 by bkerr
game-brains.com | Facade - review - Jan 2006
Excellent rambly review of Facade.
lit  if  text  games  future  media  entertainment  culture  past 
january 2006 by bkerr
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Apple ][+-rendered music video for Grandaddy song. Very cool. Make sure you watch to the end. Thanks so much, Nathan.
music  video  apple  basic  design  past  newmedia  retro  inspiration 
january 2006 by bkerr
The War Of The Worlds: the historical perspective
Site doesn't look like much, but it does have some interesting details, including a good description of "The Night America Trembled" (a TV reenactment of the Welles broadcast involving Edward Murrow).
sf  mars  past  lit  film  radio  future 
january 2006 by bkerr
telawrence.net home page
"English copyright on a large number of T. E. Lawrence's published works and letters expired on 1 January 2006."
politics  culture  war  past  lit 
january 2006 by bkerr
Ministerial Resignations - 1867 to Date
"'Resignation' has been defined as the discontinuation of a Minister's presence in the Cabinet before dissolution of Parliament, or before the end of a Ministry. Those Ministers who were in the Cabinet but who subsequently resigned as a result of failing
canada  politics  past 
january 2006 by bkerr
Suck.com: Daily
http://suck.eod.com/ = Access to Suck archive by way of Suck / Entirely Other Day hero Greg Knauss.
web  lit  suck  past 
december 2005 by bkerr
Waxy.org: Daily Log | Suck.com, Gone for Good?
suck  web  lit  past  endings 
december 2005 by bkerr
Olia Lialina. A Vernacular web. Indigenous and Barbarians.
web  design  past 
december 2005 by bkerr
RSF
"Michael forever!"
video  games  past  funny 
december 2005 by bkerr
AlterNet: Hurricane Katrina: 'They' Destroyed New Orleans
Commendable article by a student from the University of New Orleans about 'them.'
politics  culture  urban  conspiracy  katrina  past  neworleans  future 
december 2005 by bkerr
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
2005. Really nice visual design!
google  search  culture  numeracy  past 
december 2005 by bkerr
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