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Personal Fanon - When Bookmarks Were In Mustache Land
Hey, anybody out there want to learn a thing or two about online collaboration, or teamwork, or communication, or, like... anything? Look at this fucking spec doc. Fangirls seriously know their shit.
delicious  fandom  meta  pinboard  via:bkerr  via:britta 
october 2011 by vielmetti
Keep warm while exploring downtown Detroit - Detroit Moxie -
If you work or play downtown there’s a way to keep warm while travelling through the different landmarks of Detroit.

Mark Nickita, architect and president of Archive Design Studio as well as co-owner of Pure Detroit, Stella International Cafes, and The Rowland Café, routinely takes people on this little tour of Detroit that is very helpful if you want to keep warm and dry.

Nickita devised a route that will keep you inside while getting where you need to go. From the RenCen to the Compuware Building and everywhere in between, you only need to be outside to cross the street. Go from lobby to lobby, check out the shops and architecture, and stay warm. 
detroit  via:bkerr  indoors  brr-its-cold 
january 2011 by vielmetti
When Zion Ruled the Airwaves [longform.org]
A dot on the map midway between Waukegan and Kenosha, the lakeside Illinois town of Zion doesn't make the news much these days, but throughout the first third of the 20th century it was nationally famous--"notorious" may be a better word. Zion's celebrity peaked between 1923 and 1928, when the town was home to WCBD, one of the most popular radio stations in the pioneering age of American broadcasting.
via:bkerr  wcbd  zion-illinois  radio  the-bronze-age-of-radio 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Escape route - The Boston Globe
The men — and in the evening, the women — who made up this work team, the inmate library detail, tended to be the more educated among the inmate population. They are exactly the kind of people who might go back into their neighborhoods and, like Kat, serve as positive role models, and even leaders. I came to realize that if we used the prison library to systematically develop these values and skills, we would be creating small, but potentially influential, cadres of post-prison citizens. If each prison library were to send even one Fat Kat back into each community, it would already have a significant effect.
library  via:bkerr  library-school-or-hard-time-your-choice 
december 2010 by vielmetti
The Ruse of the Creative Class | The American Prospect
"There was a tremendous money-generating aspect to Richard's work," Frantz says. "We did it in a grand way. We traveled in style. We stayed in boutique hotels in most of the places we were working." But it is wrong, he says, to see any conflict in Florida's dire pronouncements on the places that bankrolled this success, because he hadn't promised prosperity in the first place. "He wasn't really making prescriptions," Frantz says. "This wasn't Jesus Christ throwing the money men out of the temple; this was an academic. He was a fucking college professor, and you're hoping to resurrect Canton, Ohio? Yeah, good luck with that."
via:bkerr  architecture  cities  creative  economics  stick-around-ann-arbor 
december 2010 by vielmetti
The Real American Pie [longform.org]
God help me if I like this stuff, I thought while building my two mince pies. But now I just say God help me, because, man, those mince pies were pretty awesome if I do say so myself. The family resemblance of old-fashioned mince to modern mincemeat is unmistakable, but the real deal is stronger and yet more subtle, miles deeper, and yields an infinitely more complex concert of flavors. The crazy taste is accompanied by a hot, fatty mouth feel that's almost obscenely pleasing. It takes some getting used to, I will allow, but by my third slice I was pretty much hooked. That was the one I tried with ice cream on top, per the fashion pioneered in New York in 1904. (I ran out of pie before I could try it under a layer of hot melted cheese, another Gothamite innovation of the same era.) Yes, it was hard to digest, and yes, I had very weird, intense dreams every night I ate it. Don't ask.
via:bkerr  recipe  mince-pie 
december 2010 by vielmetti
The Blueprint | the human network
In exactly the same way – note for note – the failures of Wikileaks provide the blueprint for the systems which will follow it, and which will permanently leave the state and its actors neutered. Assange must know this – a teenage hacker would understand the lesson of Napster. Assange knows that someone had to get out in front and fail, before others could come along and succeed. We’re learning now, and to learn means to try and fail and try again.
via:bkerr  wikileaks  napster 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Stop the World: Interesting Times : The New Yorker
This last is what really worries me. Who doesn’t want to be taken out of the boredom or sameness or pain of the present at any given moment? That’s what drugs are for, and that’s why people become addicted to them. Carr himself was once a crack addict (he wrote about it in “The Night of the Gun”). Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think I could handle it. I’m afraid I’d end up letting my son go hungry.


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2010/01/stop-the-world.html#ixzz0ebfzb5Gu
via:bkerr  twitter  addiction  david-carr  get-off-the-internet 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Coyotes - ArborWiki
hey @MichiganRadio Here's accumulated details of Ann Arbor area coyotes #MIcoyotes
via:bkerr  town-fauna  coyotes  arborwiki  MIcoyotes 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Pinboard Blog | Technical Underpinnings
Our technical goals are to never lose data, be very fast, and favor boring and faded technologies where possible. A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I'm excited to play around with something, it probably doesn't belong in production.
via:bkerr  pinboard  boring-is-good 
february 2010 by vielmetti
RichmondGrid.com | 'I Wiki, Therefore I Am'
For those looking for the Richmond lowdown, or wanting to share their own citywide tidbits, RichmondWiki.org has emerged as a community driven guide to the River City. Launched in June 2008, the website is the handiwork of Andrew Miller, a University of Richmond grad who works as a search engine marketing consultant. Miller is quick to point out that this is not his site, but rather a joint effort by all of Richmond.
via:bkerr  richmond  richmondwiki  rva  andrew-miller 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Eric Merrill 2010-02-01 Photo-A-Day #349: Waiting Chairs
Chairs on the edge of the dock at the abandoned Quincy Smelter in Hancock, MI.
via:bkerr  hancock  michigan  quincy-smelter  chairs 
february 2010 by vielmetti
A Primer : The New Yorker
February
is thirteen months long in Michigan.
We are a people who by February
want to kill the sky for being so gray
and angry at us.


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/05/19/080519po_poem_hicok#ixzz1CrKK5apA
via:bkerr  newyorker  poetry  michigan  via:logista  via:bibliophagist  i-live-where-its-gray 
february 2010 by vielmetti
The Sound of Young America: Doughnuts, Explained: Dr. Paul Mullins, author of "Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut" interviewed on The Sound of Young America
Paul Mullins is chair of the department of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. His book, "Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut," explores the symbolism and history of America's favorite deep-fried dough circle.
via:bkerr  donut  donuts  doughnuts  mmm-donuts  radio  mullins  paul  iupui  ooey-pooey 
january 2009 by vielmetti
When the Whole World Mumbles - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Perhaps it’s because my hearing loss is genetic and not age-related, but I am not at all embarrassed about my new bionic ears. Now, whether it’s a close friend, a casual acquaintance or a co-worker, I greet them the same way.

“Look, I have hearing aids!” I exclaim while pulling my hair back to show them.

At first people seem embarrassed by my candor. But once I get them talking, they share their own stories of parents, friends and spouses who remain in denial about their hearing loss.
health  hearing  lim  grace  via:bkerr 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » The Paradox of Cheap Parking, in Real Time
The parking lots and structures in downtown Ann Arbor are operated by a quasi-public organization, the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA). Together with their parking vendor, last April they implemented a system that provides real-time information about the number of parking spaces available in several lots and garages through digital signs at each garage and through their website. An old Ann Arbor friend Brian Kerr wrote a simple script to scrape that page every 20 minutes and record the number of spaces available at each facility. After letting it run for about two weeks, he posted the data file online. Subsequently a local blogger interviewed the DDA’s IT manager about how the system was implemented, and even posted some charts encouraging visitors to match the chart with the garage. The data sparked a bit of interest on local blogs but the conversation soon died out.
annarbor  parking  warning:indirect-selflink  via:bkerr  goodspeed  mostly-empty 
december 2008 by vielmetti
rst2a - reStructuredText to Anything
Every time a spec was needed, invariably, a debate over the format of the spec would arise - with developers preferring a plain text document on a wiki, and business people preferring traditional tools such as Microsoft Word based on a set template.

Cue reStructuredText - an easy-to-read, plain text document format designed to keep content and the style/formatting of content separate. Author the content once, then present it in a variety of formats - like html and pdf - with infinite possibilities for styles and templates.
rst  restructuredtext  pdf  python  via:bkerr 
december 2008 by vielmetti
ReportLab - Open Source Software
This library implements a flexible layout engine named Platypus that builds documents from components like headlines, paragraphs, fonts, tables, bitmap images, vector graphics, etc. These flowable elements are placed in a document "story" following a set of templates for frames, pages and the entire document itself. In addition to the standard 14 PostScript fonts there is full support for custom embedded Type-1 as well as for Asian fonts. The included graphics subpackage provides a set of primitive shapes as well as reusable widgets building on them. Among the sample collections is a very useful set of business chart diagrams, including bar charts, line charts and pie charts. Different renderers can be used to create vector graphics (in fact, even full document pages) as individual components not only in PDF, but also in EPS and in a variety of bitmap formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and PICT.
pdf  python  via:bkerr 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Zipper Machine on I-95 James River Bridge Project
The Zipper Machine is actually a quite large vehicle, when seen up close. It takes a tremendous amount of power to move a heavy concrete median barrier, and to do it as quickly as this machine does it. It is fairly quiet when in operation, though. The motor is not loud, and the lowering of the barrier segments back down to the roadway provides a quiet 'plunk-plunk-plunk' sound that is not very noticeable even when you are standing under the bridge when the machine passes across the deck overhead.
technology  engineering  highway  via:bkerr 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Chillax - The Boston Globe
Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable.
chill+relax  chillax  writing  creativity  funny  language  words  english  via:bkerr  via:strudeau 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Lee Byron » Else » Stream Graph Paper
In February 2008, the New York Times published an unusual chart of box office revenues for 7500 movies over 21 years. The chart was based on a similar visualization, developed by the first author, that displayed trends in music listening. This paper describes the design decisions and algorithms behind these graphics, and discusses the reaction on the Web. We suggest that this type of complex layered graph is effective for displaying large data sets to a mass audience. We provide a mathematical analysis of how this layered graph relates to traditional stacked graphs and to techniques such as ThemeRiver, showing how each method is optimizing a different “energy function”. Finally, we discuss techniques for coloring and ordering the layers of such graphs. Throughout the paper, we emphasize the interplay between considerations of aesthetics and legibility.
via:bkerr  visualization  analytics  statistics  data  graphics  academic  graph  papers  algorithm  algorithms  charting  stacked  streamgraph  pdf  layered-graph 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Venomix Index Page
kzoo based company making medicines from spider venom. tnx bkerr for noticing
via:bkerr  wayne  bruce  venomix  michigan  spiders  michigan-spiders  kalamazoo 
july 2008 by vielmetti
delicious blog " Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here
glad to see the new user interface in place; it seems to slow me down in actual use, but it's also much better at retrieving old stuff. hoping to have incremental improvement shave off a click here or there.
via:britta  via:bkerr  via:friendfeed  via:revgeorge  everything-old-is-new-again  tagging  tags  folksonomy 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Animal Crossing: City Folk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While including the same objectives from previous games by having players live in and expand their own, unique towns, City Folk includes a city area accessible by bus.
animal-crossing  city-folk  bus  transportation  game  gaming  wii  wiispeak  urban  via:bkerr 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Brian Kerr | Ann Arbor parking structure free spaces CSV
"We fight with the civic infrastructure we have, not the civic infrastructure we want to have." 3x/hr log of parking structure utlization, suitable for further analysis
annarbor  awesome  cars  webservices  michigan  parking  via:bkerr 
april 2008 by vielmetti
Pages tagged with "system:has:for" on del.icio.us
a feed of the pages on delicious that have been sent to other people's "links for you", though not noting of course who they are for, just that they were worth for'ing. interesting
delicious  del.icio.us  via:bkerr  via:deusx  machine-tags  tags 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Pages tagged with "system:has:via" on del.icio.us
if you tag something with via: on delicious, it will show up on this system tag stream. nice way to catch a feed of people noting where they got stuff.
del.icio.us  delicious  tag  via:deusx  has:via  via:bkerr 
march 2008 by vielmetti
SE Michigan's Blogger Nation
teeter talk's homeless dave is one of the bloggers featured prominently...
a2b3  annarbor  detroit  michigan  awesome  via:homelessdave  via:bkerr 
november 2007 by vielmetti
corprewland :: LOLcat Wasteland
f teh river running, why not moving? / INVISIBLE WIND. / nymphoz gone. / river has trash no more.
lolcat  poetry  funny  sad  awesome  via:bkerr  t-s-eliot  lolpoetry 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Twitter / Brian Kerr: ☼ ㏂ ∴ µ㏇☠♚ @ ➀♨ & 〠 〰〰〰 ☽ ㏘...
sun morning therefore microcoworking danger queen at primo coffee king (time passes) night evening ...
unicode  project-plan  via:bkerr  bkerr  awesome  ①♨  primo-coffee  unicodeworking 
october 2007 by vielmetti
The word farms of the web | Technology | The Guardian
The internet is replete with sites that post content optimised purely to drive ad traffic rather than having any value of its own. The internet marketing community even has a term for them: made for Adsense (MFA). But the value of online content is a subj
adsense  blog  collaboration  made-for-adsense  crowdsourcing  crapsourcing  google  teh-googe  via:britta  via:bkerr  seo  spam 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Farmers Market Technology: Ubifarm, Urban Ubiquitous Agriculture, UbiAg?
starting to be awesome collection of links and information about adding appropriate technology to the farmers market. via brian kerr
farmersmarket  feed  tech  via:bkerr  ubifarm  warning:indirect-selflink  farmers-market-technology 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Michigan Farmers’ Market Association
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this information or learning more about accepting EBT at your market, contact Dru Montri (dnmontri@msu.edu)
farmers-market-technology  ebt  ubifarm  via:bkerr 
september 2007 by vielmetti
EBT Status Highlights - Food Stamps at the Farmers Market
Michigan’s Sweetwater Local Foods Market is located in Muskegon, Michigan. Between early June and the end of October, between 10 and 14 vendors are operating on Saturdays from 9am-1pm. One EBT machine is located centrally with the market manager being r
farmers-market-technology  michigan  muskegon-michigan  ebt  via:bkerr  ubifarm 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Make a Mess, Clean it Up!
Instead of avoiding the tough situations, he'd immediately create them, and immediately start learning how to handle the worst situation imaginable. Pretty soon he would routinely handle anything the machine could throw at him.
via:bkerr  defender  mutants  video-games  strategy  tactics  learning 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Richard K Miller / WordPress plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do
One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people.
wordpress  seth  seth-godin  sethgodin  socialmedia  design  plugin  via:bkerr 
august 2007 by vielmetti
del.icio.us: limited time offer
Do you want some del.icio.us stickers? Or a few del.icio.us bookmarks - the kind you put inside books? We have a surplus of dots here at the tag mines, and we'd like to distribute them more evenly around the world. To get some schwag, mail a self-addresse
bookmarks  cool  del.icio.us  delicious  free  paper  stickers  via:britta  via:bkerr 
august 2007 by vielmetti
What's That Bug?
bug identification guide questions and answers and lots of bug photographs
academic  biology  bugs  classification  entomology  garden  gardening  taxonomy  insects  spider  spiders  encyclopedia  via:bkerr  michigan-spiders  edible-insects 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Times (New) Roman and...
Never before, and probably never again, would the precise placement of pixels in the serifs or 's' curves etc. of Times Roman occupy the attention of so many engineers and computer scientists. It was perhaps the supreme era of the Digital Fontologist.
times-roman  times-new-roman  fonts  history  usenet  via:bkerr 
august 2007 by vielmetti
City of Ann Arbor Green Fair: 2006 Pictures
2006 photos of the Green Fair in downtown Ann Arbor - I will hunt on Flickr for the 2007 crop. We had a good time, pedal-powered smoothies and diesel-electric buses the highlights.
via:bkerr  annarbor  michigan  downtown  green  bicycle  festival 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Facebookizing the Web, Webifying Facebook « Jon Udell
awesome Facebook demographics of Jon's high school, showing the steep transition from < 1% use in his cohort to 50%+ use in 2007
via:bkerr  facebook  facebook-factory  marketing  demographics  via:udell  2007  blogging  community  data  education  future  identity  interesting  jonudell  platform  research  social  social_software  socialnetwork  socialsoftware  statistics  trends 
june 2007 by vielmetti
weird professional identity descriptions
you don't know what it is you do? neither does anyone else.
jobs  titles  identity  via:bkerr  via:pzriddle 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Talk:A2b3 - ArborWiki
A place to coordinate the upcoming event where we rent ABC for an evening and do an unevent.
a2b3  beer  planning  keep-it-out-of-email  via:bkerr 
april 2007 by vielmetti
a2b3 aggregator
aggregator of blogs written by people who are regular or irregular at a2b3 lunch outings; tag something somewhere to post
a2b3  annarbor  michigan  aggregator  via:bkerr 
april 2007 by vielmetti
ON DISPLAY: Krappy Kamera Club is a whole lot more
Contributors to the exhibit are John Baird, Bill Bresler, Matt Callow, Erin Dorbin, Geoffrey Foster, Stephen Gutierrez, Ralph Krawczyk Jr., Michael C. Myers, Marjorie O'Brien, Mark F. O'Brien, Ross Orr, Andy Tanguay, Roger Varland, Linda Wan, Andrea Wiggi
annarbor  art  gallery  krappy-kamera-club  photography  reviews  via:anikarenina  via:bkerr 
april 2007 by vielmetti
LinkBack
live links between applications - still puzzling out what this really is, but bkerr says it's worth checking out.
apple  api  cocoa  interesting  osx  tools  keynote  via:bkerr 
march 2007 by vielmetti
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