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Who Is Ann Arbor, And Why Are There So Many Movies About Her? - Dissociated Press
march 2010 by bkerr
Someone actually asked me that once when I lived in San Francisco. For the uninitiated, Ann Arbor isn’t a woman, it’s a small college town in Michigan that at one time was as cool as say, Berkley, California, but has since slowly morphed into a dreary backwater of uptight Republicans and Liberal Elitists. Although it lays claim to being somehow hip and progressive, very little really happens here, and in spite of all the amazingly creative people in the area, nothing clever ever seems to escape the local scene. I jest a bit; I’m probably just being bitter because I’m tired of the place and too lazy to do anything about the fact. It’s actually a pretty cool town considering the fact that it’s only six square blocks surrounded by cornfields and strip malls.
annarbor
via:vielmetti
march 2010 by bkerr
Twitter / OrangePolitics: SPARK tries to do "open source economic development." But they are trying to trademark the term. Not very open source!
annarbor dim spark innovatrash control-addicts hierarchy economic-development-destroyed-the-city via:logista via:vielmetti via:everybody
september 2008 by bkerr
annarbor dim spark innovatrash control-addicts hierarchy economic-development-destroyed-the-city via:logista via:vielmetti via:everybody
september 2008 by bkerr
GOOLASH: anti-google firefox plugin
august 2008 by bkerr
"Doing some trickery with cookies GOOLASH cuts the tentacles of monstrous corporation away from your brain and CPU. Say NO to augmented reality of Google empire, embrace unfiltered content!"
google
anti-google
firefox
via:vielmetti
august 2008 by bkerr
Adweek | Conversation Quotient -- Social media metrics are still a work in progress
march 2008 by bkerr
"What’s a friend worth, if they don’t click on your ad?"
social
media
networks
engagement
marketing
party-like-it's-2007
via:vielmetti
march 2008 by bkerr
First Monday Vol 13 No 3 | Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0
march 2008 by bkerr
"You will be hard-pressed to find a born-again Web."
party-like-it's-2008
branding
mania
markets
ideology
mythology
propaganda
tyranny
of
the
new
via:tsuomela
via:vielmetti
via:vaguery
march 2008 by bkerr
New York Times | Personal Journeys: On Foot -- To Walk a Landscape Is to Know It
january 2008 by bkerr
Why can't you sit still? "For a million years we stalked elk, monkey, crab; we gathered nut, grub and leaf. We had to move to live. Then half a minute ago we stooped to sow seeds and the rest is history."
walking
holiday
pedestrian
cities
mobility
via:vielmetti
january 2008 by bkerr
Mark Bernstein | NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents
oopsla neo victorian not steampunk computing mechanization standardization interchange of everything craft irregularity personal inspiration follow-knowledge-like-a-sinking-starbucks voice-of-the-machines via:vielmetti via:deusx via:everybody
october 2007 by bkerr
oopsla neo victorian not steampunk computing mechanization standardization interchange of everything craft irregularity personal inspiration follow-knowledge-like-a-sinking-starbucks voice-of-the-machines via:vielmetti via:deusx via:everybody
october 2007 by bkerr
Google Book Search | Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture, by Leonard R. Bachman
october 2007 by bkerr
"Even the building looks outward as if its gaze could discern ocean horizon from cloud line."
books
how-buildings-discern
via:vielmetti
october 2007 by bkerr
Events List -- Ann Arbor District Library | Gaming Expert Greg Trefry Discusses 'From Indie Games To Big Games'
september 2007 by bkerr
Sunday October 7, 2007: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm -- Pittsfield Branch
aadl
events
casual
games
design
urban
overlay
payphone
warriors
via:vielmetti
september 2007 by bkerr
Michigan’s Technology Business Calendar
september 2007 by bkerr
"Are you hosting or sponsoring a 'technology' related event in Michigan? Great -- we want to here about it!"
michigan
tech
scare-quoted
biz
calendar
via:vielmetti
september 2007 by bkerr
Michigan State University Dept. of Entomology | Some Spiders
september 2007 by bkerr
"All cobwebs are of spider origin."
michigan
spiders
via:vielmetti
september 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
august 2007 by bkerr
"The avenue from Detroit to Pontiac is paved with 26 miles of history -- and it's celebrating its 200th anniversary."
detroit
pontiac
woodward
michigan
walking
urban
ranger
walk-away-from-the-sea
via:vielmetti
august 2007 by bkerr
Digital Humanities Quarterly | Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky
august 2007 by bkerr
Pretty awesome. If you get bored (but you won't) make sure to read the "Photographic Walkthrough" section.
lit
text
games
if
narrative
cartography
mapping
spelunking
adventure
remediation
colossal-cave
clock1
clock2
the-dome-is-unclimbable
via:vielmetti
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
userslib.com | MLibrary2.0 Gaming & Social Networking, A New Direction for Libraries (notes)
august 2007 by bkerr
"'Email is how you talk to old people' -- AADL gamer"
aadl
library
games
simcity
civilization
networks
via:vielmetti
august 2007 by bkerr
Early StartUps - Ann Arbor SPARK
july 2007 by bkerr
"Founder seeking partner to help establish a link between the actions of the genome that affect changes in body and mind, and intelligence of the soul. Founder has developed this concept."
annarbor
startup
cargo-cult
dimly-SPARK'd
talk-into-your-bluetooth
pretend-it's-an-actual-city
stick-around-annarbor
actions-of-the-genome
intelligence-of-the-soul
long-fake-shadow-of-sand-hill-road
via:vielmetti
july 2007 by bkerr
Print Ads -- AdWords -- Google
july 2007 by bkerr
"Google Print Ads is an extension of AdWords that makes it easy for advertisers and agencies of all sizes to run ads in newspapers across the U.S. -- whether you're buying space in one paper or a hundred."
teh-googe
adwords
print
newspapers
via:vielmetti
july 2007 by bkerr
David Archer | 400 mpg, or so
june 2007 by bkerr
"A 155 lb human walking at 3 mph will burn 246 kcal/hour, or 82 kcal/mile. Feed that human one gallon of gas in potential energy -- 31,548 kcal -- and he'll have enough energy to walk for 128 hours." Ed suggests a mpg (miles per donut) metric.
walking
energy
efficiency
donuts
miles-per-donut
walkertracker
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
metromode | Density Vs. Transit
june 2007 by bkerr
"Misconceptions from local leaders that Southeast Michigan isn't dense enough or wouldn't ride mass transit are either not looking at the numbers or missing the point."
density
versus
transit
transportation
economics
trains
planning
etc
michigan
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
benjismith.net | Introducing Sproiiiing: the Hottest New EoC Framework
june 2007 by bkerr
<sproiiiing:argument type="java.lang.String"> <sproiiiing:string-literal> <sproiiiing:![CDATA[Hello World!!]]> </sproiiiing:string-literal> </sproiiiing:argument>
sproiiiing
framework
futurspeek
magical
architecture
zero-LOC
zero-dependencies
party-like-it's-200x
xml-xml-xml
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
CONTEXT -- This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times | Back in the Fight
june 2007 by bkerr
"Students from Moscow scoured amusement parks to set up the first museum of Soviet arcade games."
soviet
russia
arcade
games
museum
palaces-of-culture
morskoi-boi
obgon
virazh
macron-1
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
Venture Itch | 15 tips on attracting visitors to your site or PNB (Prioritized Numbered Bullshit)
may 2007 by bkerr
"Without denying convenience of digesting PNB (prioritized numbered bullshit -- abbreviation is mine), this no-brainer recipe of getting attention of social networking crowds is abused more and more."
list
prioritized-number-bullshit
weblogs
communication
yasn
spammy
content
fuckup
stop-the-train-please
i'd-like-to-get-off
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
Flak Magazine | The Care and Feeding of a Game Group, by Matthew Baldwin
may 2007 by bkerr
vielmetti sez: "these rules go well also for any other kind of ad hoc social groupings -- lunch groups, book clubs, etc"
group
identity
formation
howto
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
The Michigan Daily | The Circuit » The Best of the Rest(room)
may 2007 by bkerr
"If this series doesn’t win a Pulitzer, the system is flawed."
annarbor
umich
bathroom
survey
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
metromode | U.S. 23 commuter line looks to expand, create rail authority
may 2007 by bkerr
"The proposed commuter rail line along U.S. 23 between Ann Arbor and Howell is looking at adding another stop in Hamburg Township and possibly expanding to Saline or Monroe."
annarbor
saline
monroe
howell
washtenaw
michigan
public
transportation
trains
in-ur-base
commutin-ur-dudes
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
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