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Who Is Ann Arbor, And Why Are There So Many Movies About Her? - Dissociated Press
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
GOOLASH: anti-google firefox plugin
"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
New York Times | Personal Journeys: On Foot -- To Walk a Landscape Is to Know It
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
Google Book Search | Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture, by Leonard R. Bachman
"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
Michigan’s Technology Business Calendar
"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
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
"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
The Long Tail | Why I gave up on Second Life
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
Early StartUps - Ann Arbor SPARK
"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
"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
"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
"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
<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&#039;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
"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
Google Maps -- Art Supplies in the Ann Arbor Area
"A list of vendors in the Ann Arbor area that sell stuff artists want."
annarbor  michigan  art  supplies  $  google  maps  via:vielmetti 
june 2007 by bkerr
Venture Itch | 15 tips on attracting visitors to your site or PNB (Prioritized Numbered Bullshit)
"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&#039;d-like-to-get-off  via:vielmetti 
may 2007 by bkerr
Flak Magazine | The Care and Feeding of a Game Group, by Matthew Baldwin
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)
"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
"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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