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Tour De Gall | Culture | Vanity Fair
We grasp them with the spring-loaded specula and gingerly unwind the dark gastropods, curling like dinosaur boogers.
epic  review 
march 2011 by vielmetti
Adactio: Journal—Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon
For a lot of products, such as alarm clocks, you’re only going to write a review if you have a negative experience. How does Amazon get people to write reviews? Most people don’t leave reviews. About 0.7% of people who buy something leave a review. But because Amazon has such a huge amount of customers, that equates to quite a lot. So the next time someone says, "we should have reviews; that works really well for Amazon," you can respond with "sure, we should have customers too; that works really well for Amazon."
design  usability  conversion-rate  review  comments 
june 2009 by vielmetti
The Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Scientific Lab Test vs. Incandescent - Popular Mechanics
I’m a degreed electrical engineer who has designed a lot of power related hardware so naturally I was interested in CFLs. I’ve installed various brands with some being pure crap (Ikea) to some lasting a very long time. I decided to take apart the first few that failed and see what the problem was. I don’t recommend people doing this because of the mercury inside the bulbs. One bulb actually burned the circuit board inside. What I found was poorly designed electronics being the main cause of failure. When designing for the high volumes, an engineer is going to be pressured to squeeze every penny out of the design and that means riding the edge of failure. There is no reason that a CFL can’t last for a very long time but you are probably going to have to pay a little extra for a good product. At this time, I know of no standards regarding these types of bulbs. Until we get some standards and methods of certifying these standards, we’re going to be seeing a lot a variance in quality.
cfl  compare  review  fluorescent  failure  energy  green 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Are You Happy? - The New York Review of Books
gilbert  dan  happiness  book  review 
january 2009 by vielmetti
True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get Things Done in Organizations | sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek
True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get Things Done in Organizations

Janice A. Klein, 1st ed, ISBN 0-7879-7473-0

… changes in organizational strategies usually create micro challenges at the working level. These become opportunities for outsider-insiders throughout the organization to identify gaps between current work practices and changes needed to address the new strategic objectives. … Here is an opportunity for outsider-insiders within each functional group to identify gaps and introduce new ways of working collaboratively to achieve the company's strategic objectives. (p53)
org-studies  change  management  books  review  klein  janice 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Think Differently!!: Book Review: Malcolm Gladwell on Success
The same criticisms can be made in relation to Gladwell's book Outliers. Gladwell seeks to persuade through stories based on carefully selected anecdotes or research reports. He shows us what he wants to, in a way designed to entertain and engage us and to garner assent. He does not immerse us in the details of the case studies or the discussions in the social science literature to an extent that would enable us to form our own objective judgements. We are shown what Gladwell wants us to see, in the way he wants us to see it. Gladwell's work is classical persuasive rhetoric, not a well developed argument in social science.
review  sociology  rhetoric  gladwell  malcolm  outliers  success-in-business  success 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Why CouchDB Sucks - Die in a Fire - Eric Florenzano's Blog
So does CouchDB suck? No, it's by far my favorite new database technology on the block. What it's good at doing, it's great at doing, but that doesn't mean that it should be used for everything. With the kinds of scaling issues that we're seeing with today's highly-interactive web applications, we need to make use of a broad range of technologies, and use each one for its greatest strengths. That's called using the right tool for the job, and that's never gone out of style.
couchdb  database  your-database-sucks  sql  review  programming 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Robert Axelrod - The Complexity of Cooperation
In brief, the simulation data on which Axelrod supposedly bases his conclusions about the evolution of norms is woefully inadequate, even if one thought that his Norms Game were a good representation of the Game of Life in which real norms actually evolve. One simply cannot get by without learning the underlying theory. Without any knowledge of the theory, one has no way of assessing the reliability of a simulation and hence no idea of how much confidence to repose in the conclusions that it suggests. It does not follow that the conclusions on norms and other issues which Axelrod offers in his Complexity of Cooperation are without value. He is, after all a clever man who knows the literature of his own subject very well. But I do not think one can escape the conclusion that the evidence from computer simulations that he offers in support of his ideas has only rhetorical value. His methodology may table some new conjectures that are worth exploring.
binmore  ken  axelrod  robert  books  economics  review  cooperation  complexity  titfortat 
december 2008 by vielmetti
A Guide to the Best Doughnuts in New York | Serious Eats : New York
Over the last three weeks, Serious Eater Robyn Lee and I have subwayed up and down the boroughs, making many doughnut stops. The doughnut variation and varieties we found were endless and fascinating. From the high-end indulgences where doughnuts ran more than $4, to the low-brow 70¢ numbers, we ate them all with great gusto. We even took a dip in at Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme for "quality checks." We ate and we ate. And then ate some more. We analyzed, downed cups of coffee, and then continued. Below, we bring you the best of New York City doughnuts.
newyork  donuts  mmm-donuts  lee  robyn  seriouseats  food  review  via:joegermuska 
december 2008 by vielmetti
A History of Online Information Services [Review]
By focusing on the period from 1963 to 1976, the authors capture the emotion and revolutionary nature of moving from a fundamentally print information service system, to one that is chiefly based on online systems without getting lost in the expanse of the entire evolution from Vannevar Bush to the networked web. Service, as opposed to system, is the key word in the book's title. By focusing on overall services rather than narrowing in on the systems themselves, the book transcends its encyclopedic narrative and somewhat numbing detail to present a balanced focus on people, events, and products. This holistic approach enables the writers to interject compelling biographical narratives of the key players who took developing online systems from experimental to fundamental components of information service. The best example is chapter five, where the long and winding development of DIALOG is bolstered by insights into integral service developers such as Roger Summit and Van Wente.
article:review  review  istl  nethistory  party-like-its-1976  bush  vannevar  autonote  reitman  walter 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Rands In Repose: Dumbing Down the Cloud
It’s a fair question. Sync is trying to be useful, sync is trying to be helpful, but sync is giving you a choice, and while you are generally good at choices, you will screw up. And when you do you will never, ever blame yourself, you will blame sync.
blog  review  design  usability  sync  dropbox  cloud-computing  sync-considered-harmful 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Brain, v5 (beta) for Mac OS X
"I've tried to use The Brain on the Mac. Oh, I've tried. Because there really isn't another tool like it. And I love Harlan. But I just can't make the Mac version work for me. The UI / feature set has become really bloated, the Javaness of the app makes it really sluggish, I wish I could turn off about two-thirds of the features and just keep "the plex" as a lightweight way to that type of mapping."
thebrain  hugh  harlan  brain  plex  osx  java  ui  ux  review 
november 2008 by vielmetti
there's always something to talk about: this week in eating: the best of ann arbor
it's been fun to mentally walk through ann arbor, pondering all of its incredible eating. as the result of all of this thinking, and after much hemming and hawing and revising, i've come up with my long-overdue top 5 restaurants in ann arbor. (and 6 runners-up, because how can you limit it to just 5?)
michigan  annarbor  food  restaurant  review 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Montreal Restaurant Guide
very long spreadsheet-y guide to restaurants in montreal
montreal  restaurants  restaurant  review 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Praise, Curse, and Recurse: The Abysmal State of Python IDEs
In the past few weeks I've sampled numerous Python IDEs for Mac OS X. Without exception, every one of them has major problems.
programming  python  ide  osx  review 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Two weeks in Japan: April/May 2008 - A Travelogue by Doug Burnett
I loved Kyoto. It was easy to get around with plenty to see both day and night. Any travel book or the Internet site can give you a list of places to visit but simply walking around was interesting enough.

I can recommend the place I stayed, the Econo-Inn too. It was the cheapest hotel I had in a country known for expensive accommodations. (I paid $42 a night.) It was both convenient and quiet, the most important qualities to me. Up the street was a little café in the lobby of a hotel where I could get breakfast, so I was happy.
tokyo  kyoto  burnett  doug  traveldoug  lodging  review  hotel 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Visioneer "Strobe XP 300" Duplex Scanner
This a very small, lightweight, scanner. Its physical dimensions are about the same as one of those small folding umbrellas, and its weight is not much more than theirs.

It is very good at scanning black-and-white text, and not very good at scanning grey and coloured images. For best results these should be scanned separately, on a flat-bed scanner.
scanner  review  massdig  mass-digitization  scanning-bee 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications
Everything in Hefferon’s book is superbly motivated. The first chapter begins with two real-world examples: Unknown weights placed on balances, and the ratios of complex molecules in chemical reactions. These examples are used to introduce Gauss’s method for solving systems of linear equations. Further into the book, the examples begin to tie back to earlier chapters. Determinants, for example, are motivated by the usefulness of recognizing isomorphisms and invertible matrices.
linear-algebra  review  books  mathematics  matrix-math 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Why Systems Fail and Problems Sprout Anew
"Systemantics" is such an essential work for those working in (and especially with) international organizations that it is important that they should not be discouraged by any belief that it is primarily concerned with matters outside their frame of reference. For this reason we list below the "Basic Systems Axioms, etc" from the book with indications as to how (in the reviewer's opinion) they relate to the domain of international organizations in particular (rather than to the full range of systems created by humans, for such is the wide applicability of the author's insights). It is however essential to read the text to gain a full understanding of the application of these principles and all the consequences resulting from them.
systemantics  systems-people  systems  review  book-review  gall  john 
november 2008 by vielmetti
LibrariAnne · library tech
Speaking of texting, Ed Vielmetti just wrote a great article about mobile interfaces for Library Journal. Now that I’m addicted to my BlackBerry, I’m always pleased when I find that one of my favorite sites has a site that works well in the BB browser. I use the Internet on my phone more often than I ever thought I would (I actually feel like I get my money’s worth, or close to it, despite the ridiculous charges).
library  superpatron  blackberry  mobile  mobile-libraries  libraryjournal  review 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Blog before you Think!: Zero social
MyTextFile is a minimalistic online text editor for a single plain text file. If you want to go fancy you can chance the typeface/font size or the color scheme. MyTextFile also has built-in revision control and will autosave your document every five minutes. And that’s about it. I love it.
momb  mytextfile  review  see-also:pageoftext  via:momb  via:saurierduval 
october 2008 by vielmetti
spiked-culture | Article | Conspicuous consumption, a century on
Cranky but hilarious, overstated yet containing a nasty little cinder of truth, the passage couldn't have been written by anyone but Veblen.
veblen  thorstein  conspicuous-consumption  conspicuous-waste  review  economics 
october 2008 by vielmetti
LTHForum.com • View topic - Advice for the UP/Marquette MI area?
Congress Pizza offers a good pie and a great atmosphere. The pizza crust is crackery thin and the bland but palatable sauce is spread atop a layer of cheese to maintain the crust's crispness. Though this is an odd pizza, we enjoyed it enough to make two trips during our stay. Part of our enjoyment, though, arose from the feeling of the place. Its paneled walls adorned with countless photos highlighting Ishpeming's athletic, labor and social history and its bright red vinyl-upholstered booths filled with local townspeople happily dining atop formica tables, Congress Pizza draws outsiders into another era, another world, and another way of looking at the world. A more distinct distillation of small town America would be difficult to find, and the place itself seems constructed to make a definite imprint upon visitors. I will gladly return to Congress Pizza--which, incidentally, has a very friendly, gregarious owner and staff--as much for the ambience as for the food.
lth  ishpeming  michigan  congress-pizza  review  food  yooper  cudighi  marquette 
september 2008 by vielmetti
LibrarianInBlack: A new library website to drool over
Looking for a new library website to "ooh" and "aah" about? If you haven't looked at the new Darien Library website (home of former wondrous aadl.org creator John Blyberg), then check it out. John blogs about it as well, pointing to some nice reviews of the site. The new site runs on Drupal 6 and SOPAC 2.0. Open source, open source, open source. The navigation is clear. The design is simple and yet appealing. I am a happy camper, especially as someone just starting a redesign with Drupal 6 myself. Now, if I can just convince everyone here to move over to the SOPAC. :)
drupal  darien  sopac  review  blyberg  john  superpatron  toblog 
september 2008 by vielmetti
ChefMoz Dining Guide -- United_States/NM/San_Antonio/Owl Bar Café and Steakhouse
I grew up in about 2 hours from the Owl Bar. I have since moved to New York, and honestly dream about their green chile cheeseburgers. They are not big, don't expect Fuddruckerian proportions, a small person can order two burgers. Everything is a la carte, so if you want fries order them. If you have the opportunity it is about 15 miles south of Socorro NM and right off the exit on I-25. 4 stars, two thumbs up, if you love hamburgers, it is a great place to go.
food  review  green-chiles  owl-bar  green-chile-smackdown  via:vaguery  i-can-haz-cheezburger 
september 2008 by vielmetti
WickedPickle » First cider of the season (2008)
Yes! The Dexter cider mill is open. The first cider of the season is very tart and very tasty.
dexter  michigan  apple  cider-mill  donuts  review  food 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Chicks Dig Beer: Joy!!!
BUT.... over the weekend, M and I made quite a joyous discovery. While on an errand to an as yet unexplored part of town, we happened upon Bello Vino. How could we have lived here this long without making this discovery!! I mean, as if it weren't enough to have treasures like Morgan & York and Stadium Market within walking distance of our house, there's also this... this.... mecca. I'm not kidding.
beer  annarbor  michigan  bello-vino  review  joy 
august 2008 by vielmetti
French Laundry serves up local fare with flair - Flint, Michigan Entertainment News - The Flint Journal – MLive.com
French Laundry owner Mark Hamel says he and chef Jody Brunori threw down a challenge to Marcel Fex. "We said, 'We haven't bought produce from local growers because we do a high volume (of meals).
michigan  food  review  restaurant  fenton  french-laundry-no-not-the-one-in-california  hamel  mark  brunori  jody  via:jhritz 
august 2008 by vielmetti
A quick trip to the yoop. | Common Monkeyflower
The sign out front of the Bridgeview stating, "Best whitefish in town," is Absolutely No Joke. It may be in fact be among the best whitefish in the State, showing what one can do with good ingredients and minimal fussing. Cara had the grilled whitefish sandwich, with chili cheese fries. Margaret and I had the fish and chips, which we got several minutes after Cara's sandwich. After delivering the sandwich, Chief had to pull a few more whitefish out of the bucket and clean them before he could make our food, complete with commentary on their energeticness. It's definitely worth making a stop for on any trip over the bridge.
via:mitten  via:murph  restaurant  vacation  mackinac  mackinaw  bridgeview-diner  whitefish  review 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Mamounia, 37a Curzon St Mayfair London W1J 7TX | Restaurant Spy
From the street, it looks as if Mamounia is just an elegant, dimly lit bar, and there is little indication of the restaurant downstairs. It was raining, so we had coats and umbrellas, and as the person showing us down to our table did not take our costs, we assumed there would be somewhere to hang them downstairs. But no – we had to sling them over the backs of our chairs. The restaurant is also dimly lit, so the menu’s small writing on coloured paper was a challenge as I’d forgotten my specs. The menu is divided into Lebanese, Moroccan and Fusion and there’s a wide choice. We started with a shared plate of mixed Lebanese meze, all fine and freshly cooked, but to be honest, no better than one would get in any Green Lanes Turkish restaurant, or – say - Gallipoli in Upper Street. And of course, twice the price. But this is Mayfair, with crisp napery, swift service and a floorshow, so it’s certainly value for money.
restaurant  review  london  via:daisy 
august 2008 by vielmetti
5 New Finnish American Books
including a review of "the co-op label" by jim johnson
books  finland  finnish  yooper  johnson  jim  review 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Homemade Pomegranate Liqueur Recipe
Finally one summer, my girlfriend brought me a present she found at a local yard sale. It's an old, aluminum orange press. Basically, it's a round bowl with a hinged pressing plate attached to a 12-inch lever arm. It's all made of thick, sturdy aluminum, and withstands the rigors of pomegranate pods admirably. Suddenly, and just in time for pomegranate season, we had a press sufficient for our needs. Two dozen pomegranates later, we had jars and jars of delicious pomegranate jelly, and a half a dozen jars of precious pomegranate experiments.

Those experiments were, as I always tell people to do, variations on the central theme. I knew that my good pomegranate liqueur had a certain proportion of pomegranates, lemon peel, sugar and alcohol, but I wanted to me sure, and I wanted to undrestand some things about the seeds and skins.
pomegranate  food  review  recipes  recipe  diy  fruit  alcohol  drinks  liquor  vodka  liqueur  when-life-gives-you-pomegranates 
august 2008 by vielmetti
[0712.2716] Community Structure in Graphs
Graph vertices are often organized into groups that seem to live fairly independently of the rest of the graph, with which they share but a few edges, whereas the relationships between group members are stronger, as shown by the large number of mutual connections. Such groups of vertices, or communities, can be considered as independent compartments of a graph. Detecting communities is of great importance in sociology, biology and computer science, disciplines where systems are often represented as graphs. The task is very hard, though, both conceptually, due to the ambiguity in the definition of community and in the discrimination of different partitions and practically, because algorithms must find ``good'' partitions among an exponentially large number of them. Other complications are represented by the possible occurrence of hierarchies, i.e. communities which are nested inside larger communities,
community  review  paper  network  graphtheory  socnet 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs |
Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn't mean? I don't know, but you risk doing it every time you change something. And the way you avoid this kind of fuck up is by not changing a word of my copy without asking me, okay? it's e
editing  editor  editors  english  rant  nosh  review  words  writing  guardian  language 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Dalat Ypsilanti | Yelp
mixed reviews on yelp. "The surrounding decor is reminiscient of a banquet hall, with no real theme or actual work put in to the appearance. There are at least 30 tables, and even a private table for large parties"
dalat  ypsilanti  yelp  not-the-same-as-urbanspoon  restaurant  review  pho 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Four Obsessions: Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Restaurant Review: MisSaigon
vietnamese restaurant review
blog  review  annarbor  michigan  misssaigon  pho  bun  food 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Why does everything suck?: The Real Reason IPOs And Mergers Are Down
Web 2.0 has not been able to capture enough viewer attention to make ads truly effective outside of search. And selling services for hard dollars has become much more difficult, and in some quarters down right gauche.
blogs  business  ipo  review  startup  web2.0  party-like-its-1999  web-two-point-naught 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
"A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity". cosma holds no punches
automata  math  mathematics  review  science  wolfram  stephen 
july 2008 by vielmetti
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
attention  2008  blog  culture  efficiency  lifehacks  organization  productivity  psychology  review  trends  web  work  gtd  thrash  multitasking 
february 2008 by vielmetti
RAVE: Korean spots in Ann Arbor, MI - Midwest - Chowhound
Chowhound discovers Korean food in Ann Arbor.
annarbor  michigan  food  review  eastern-accents  maru  steves-lunch  kana  seoul-garden  seoul-korner  kangs  coffee-break  panda  teriyaki-time  kosmo-deli  bells-diner  ari-rang  be-won  university-cafe  am-i-missing-any 
january 2008 by vielmetti
Talking Back to Prozac - The New York Review of Books
As the product of a guild whose members seek payment for treating whatever complaints are brought to them, the manual must be biased toward overmedicalizing so that both doctors and patients can be served under managed care.
advertising  marketing  medical  medicalization  medicine  mentalhealth  pharma  review  toread 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Restaurant review: Divo, 12 Waterloo Place, London SW1 | Food and drink | Life and Health
There are many words I could use to describe the food served here, but this is a family newspaper and none of them should be available before the watershed. I can't deny my disappointment because the remaining candidates - awful, calamitous, the horror, t
funny  guardian  humor  restaurant  restaurants  review  reviews  foodie  uk 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Online Moms: Where Local, Social And Vertical Worlds Collide
"You probably found us in the Berkeley Parents Network, right?" he very casually replied. "You're right," I responded, surprised. The Berkeley Parents Network (BPN) is a non-profit online community heavily used in the East Bay neighborhoods of the Bay Are
bpn  berkeley-parents-network  arborparents  search  review  local 
october 2007 by vielmetti
The Brouhaha Ann Arbor
Lively commentary and connections on food, restaurants, entertainment, and living in Ann Arbor, Michigan
annarbor  michigan  food  restaurant  review  blog  stick-around-ann-arbor  stick-around-michigan 
october 2007 by vielmetti
[this is aaronland] “Smoking wasn't dangerous then.”
Okay, everything except for the part about ready-access. I never did get international-roaming working on my cell phone while I was overseas and looking up restaurants, on the web, would not have been emergency enough for me to suffer the GPRS rates in Eu
restobook  restaurant  review  database  delicious  via:deusx 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Pages tagged with "restobook" on del.icio.us
restaurant neogeography metadata (yelp tagging)
neogeography  restaurant  review  restobook  metadata 
october 2007 by vielmetti
iPhone Revisted (Verdict: Don't Buy) - Gizmodo
[Jack S over at The Guardian has a article in response ending with "
Now Jobs has finally moved into an industry where control freakery is the norm, why would you expect him to give it up?" Worth reading for, you know, a reality check. And Owen from Vall
iphone  jobso  control-towers  control-freakery  review 
september 2007 by vielmetti
SimplyCVR: Ann Arbor post - part IV
Then we went to a place called Bombay groceries. You got to see that place to believe it!! Once you enter that place you will forget that you are in US. It has all the stuff which you would find in a regular “Food world” or a “Subiksha” outlet al
annarbor  michigan  bombay-grocers  bombay-groceries  food  review  india  chennai 
september 2007 by vielmetti
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Business social network beta launches. Why?
skeptical review of Marzar; some squabbling in the comments
marzar  review  reviews  socnet  socialmedia  socialsoftware 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Getting Things Done by David Allen (Phil Gyford: Writing)
ou could sum the book up in two words as “be organised”, which isn't much help: Anyone would feel more organised if they set some time aside every week to get on top of things (the Weekly Review) or were as punctilious about recording their actions as
notes  gtd  productivity  summary  review  books  david-allen 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Binocular Ratings: Bird Watching Binoculars, Hunting Binoculars
review of reviews; most recent is 2006
binoculars  birding  optics  shopping  review  reviews 
september 2007 by vielmetti
allaboutoptics.com - Binocular Review - Comparing High-End Binoculars
That being said, it’s also impossible to design a single binocular that excels in every measurable category because most of the categories represent trade-offs. So, for those of you looking for the “Holy Grail” of all binoculars, you can stop looki
binocular  review  reviews  tradeoffs  optics 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Tech Friendly Boutique Hotels in Vancouver
Looking for a funky web savvy boutique hotel in downtown Vancouver that won’t break the bank? Recently Mark from Chicago contacted me through the blog to ask about such a place since he’ll be coming to town this fall.
ready  vancouver  travel  canada  bc  hotel  review  boutique  a2b3 
august 2007 by vielmetti
whump.com | More Like This WebLog » Sapporo Keyaki Ramen
There’s a ramen museum in Yokohama. You don’t go for the musuem, but for the ramen shops. The basement’s set up as an arcade in the fashion of 1950’s Tokyo. The best noodle shops in Japan have branches set up here. You buy a ticket from a machine
sapporo  japan  ramen  tampopo  soupy-noodles  food  review 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild
cognitive tasks can get spread over several people; that, in this instance, those who do tasks which require input from other people are generally superior to them in rank; that the official job descriptions do not quite correspond to what people do; that
cognition  edwin-hutchins  books  review  navy  ship  navigation  thinking 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Monster Munching: A Tale of Three Soft Tofu Restaurants - Irvine
In Irvine, where Koreans constitute only 5.3% of the city's population, there are six Korean soft tofu restaurants. Serendipitiously, three of the six are clustered together like mushrooms in the same sprawling neighborhood shopping center.
blog  california  food  korean  recommendations  review  irvine 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Betty Sodders - Michigan On Fire - Book Review
Sodders' exhaustive research has turned up vivid and personal accounts of these 1871 fires, and she reprints them in the book. In all, the October fires probably killed no more than 200 persons, but they made 18,000 homeless, or one out of every 100 resid
betty-sodders  michigan  fire  wildfire  1871  book  review 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Ethnic Thursday
Where are we eating dinner this Thursday? Click here to find out! Thursday night dinner + social group covering metro detroit including ann arbor - a variety of restaurant reviews here too.
detroit  social  food  eats  review  restaurant  thursday 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Subtraction: Unsung Software
What are the least glamorous software tools for the Macintosh that you can’t live without? I’m not talking about the likes of Quicksilver, Adium or other high profile applications that, even if they don’t come from major league publishers, manage to
osx  software  mac  apple  review  reviews  obscure  productivity 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Google Research Publication: Chubby Distributed Lock Service
We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system. Chubby provides an interface much like a distributed fi
architecture  computing  database  design  google  paper  paxos  research  review  algorithm  lamport 
august 2007 by vielmetti
NewsTrust - About this Story - Stung: Where have all the bees gone?
newstrust  bees  newyorker  review 
august 2007 by vielmetti
WalkerTracker.com - Walk and Socialize
review of Walker Tracker
walk  walking  walkertracker  pedometer  startup  review 
july 2007 by vielmetti
The Cherry Hut - Beulah, MI
cherry pie place up north (review)
cherries  beulah  michigan  restaurant  review  pie  roadfood 
july 2007 by vielmetti
Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burger - Ann Arbor, MI
Blimpy Burger meets several of the qualifications for a Roadfood establishment. Blimpy’s has been in business for a long time, doing one thing particularly well, and has maintained a loyal customer base despite (or because of) the cantankerous and quirk
roadfood  blimpy  review  cheaper-than-food  annarbor  michigan  burgers  food 
july 2007 by vielmetti
veggieburgh | vegetarian food in Pittsburgh, PA
blog about being a veg in pgh - useful for our next visit there, lots of restaurant reviews and recipes
vegetarian  veggie  food  eats  cuisine  restaurant  review  pittsburgh  pennsylvania 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Promote Your Site!
Create Magazine reviewing web designs from the area. "Please feel free to submit sites that you've personally done, or ones that you know of that were designed in the Midwest."
magazine  promotion  design  review 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Design*Sponge
d*s has a very visual approach to design, lots of lovely stuff juxtaposed
advertising  blog  design  fashion  furniture  lifestyle  illustration  review  style 
may 2007 by vielmetti
The Amateur Gourmet: Burma Superstar
review of this san francisco restaurant w/photos of featured dishes including tea salad
blogs  restaurants  food  review  burmese  tea-salad 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Kitchen Chick: Asian Legend: Taiwanese Snacks Invade Ann Arbor
When Joe and I first read that Asian Legend on William St. was offering Taiwanese snacks, we rushed down there the next day to give them a try. We both love dim sum and Asian street foods, and we were eager to see what new tastes Asian Legend had brought
culture  food  local  restaurant  review  asian-legend  via:kitchenchick  taiwanese  snack  dim-sum  eats  yum 
may 2007 by vielmetti
getbuttonedup: alicia rockmore
interview with Ann Arbor owner of Buttoned Up, personal organizer tools available at Target
buttonedup  getbuttonedup  interview  annarbor  michigan  review  organization  rockmore  alicia 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Jin Mi Restaurant - Authentic Korean Eatery Revisited - Guam
When Zee's Hot Stone Bee Bim Bam came, she was relieved and immediately started to stir the egg, vegetable, meat and rice mixture up the side of the bowl, adding more and more chili paste to season this popular cook-it-yourself dish. After a few minutes,
bibimbop  restaurant  review  guam  long-way-to-go-for-lunch 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Chicken In The Rough in Sarnia, ON - Restaurantica
decidedly mixed reviews here
chicken-in-the-rough  sarnia  ontario  restaurant  review  chicken  mmm-chicken  food 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Doug Dawgz Blog: North on Lincoln: Chicken-In-The-Rough
review (and a complete franchise list!) of the chicken-in-the-rough restaurants
chicken-in-the-rough  food  restaurant  review  oklahoma-city  oklahoma  chicken  mmm-chicken 
may 2007 by vielmetti
The Journal Times Online | Aseana, Racine WI
Foreign food: Asiana's Korean cuisine is unfamiliar to most Racine residents, but people are warming up to the spicy dishes
racine  wisconsin  restaurant  review  a2b3  korean  bibimop  53403 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Hangkuk - Clinton Twp, MI - Metro Times Detroit - Restaurant Review
Given the heat to come, it may be advisable to begin with that Korean standard, bibim bab. Okcha's take on it, without rice, can pass for a salad—delicately cut cucumbers, bits of beef, spinach, fiddlehead ferns, a dab of sweetish red-pepper paste and t
clinton-township  macomb  michigan  restaurant  korean  bibimbap  a2b3  review 
may 2007 by vielmetti
BG Korean, Windsor Ontario - Metro Times Detroit - Restaurant Review
"For a main course, we ordered bi bim bap — which has to be popular partly for its name, don’t you think? A heap of rice in a stone pot is surrounded by a tangle of carrots, zucchini and spicy ground beef — and when it comes to your table, a fried e
bibimbop  windsor  ontario  canada  a2b3  restaurant  review 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Irie Caribbean Cuisine, Canton MI - Metro Times Detroit - Restaurant Review
No one should be afraid of goat, which in Irie's curry is spicy, not goaty, and more like an island beef stew than anything else, with onions, carrots and potatoes. Jerk chicken is spicier but not overly so. The serving is called a chicken quarter, though
food  local  review  caribbean  canton  michigan  via:jhritz 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Hruminations: Artisan Bistro opens in old Atlanta Bakery space, Packard @ State
The Atlanta Bread Company is now an organic sandwich shop, the Artisan Bakery. They're still working out some bugs and going though the paper goods from the previous business, but the food quality seemed very high. Several vegetarian sandwiches are on the
food  annarbor  review  via:jhritz  campus  organic 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Clear your clutter with Feng Shui | View patron comments | Ann Arbor District Library
I got it from the library, and was happy to bring it back to the library so that it doesn't need to clutter up a bookshelf here. I wrote a few notes about it on paper. I just wish the AADL had a few more copies so I didn't have to wait so long to get it
fengshui  clutter  review  books  aadl  annarbor  michigan  library 
april 2007 by vielmetti
asian legend ann arbor review - Google Search
new Taiwanese place on William St, google search at the moment doesn't have any reviews.
asian-legend  taiwanese  restaurant  annarbor  michigan  food  eats  review 
april 2007 by vielmetti
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