links for 2007-08-31

• Lawsuit accuses troubled credit union of fraud – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Huron River Area Credit Union, which was placed into conservatorship in February, has been named in a lawsuit alleging real estate fraud involving millions of dollars of loans for construction of investment homes in a formerly booming part of southwest Fl
  (tags: hracu annarbor michigan credit-union florida fraud subprime construction)
• Nightclub says it will tighten entry rules – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  In 2006, there were 69 calls for service, including 11 assaults, 14 fights, 18 “trouble with subject” and one drug offense. In the first four months of 2007, there were 29 calls. The city can’t track police calls from May through August because it is tran
  (tags: annarbor michigan downtown dda police studio-4 nightclub nightlife)
• shimenawa – ILS Abstraction API
  There is considerable ferment these days in the library community about the shortcomings of the current generation of OPAC systems. A number of libraries are investigating replacement discovery systems divorced from their Integrated Library Systems (ILS),
  (tags: code4lib libraries library superpatron api patrest sopac opac catalog your-opac-sucks)
• Home – Penn Libraries Wiki
  This is the home page for the ILS and Discovery Systems group wiki. This is a group convened by DLF to analyze the issues involved in integrating “integrated library systems” and discovery systems, and create a technical proposal for how such integration
  (tags: ils penn upenn library libaries superpatron wiki integrated-library-systems your-opac-sucks)
• 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.
  (tags: ready vancouver travel canada bc hotel review boutique a2b3)
• arborparents : Re: birthday party for 3 year old? Need suggestions…
  some links to ann arbor birthday party for kids suggestions
  (tags: annarbor michigan birthday party kids)
• IT Conversations: Greg Elin
  In this edition of Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Greg Elin, chief architect with the Sunlight Foundation. Founded in 2006, the Sunlight Foundation aims to make the operation of Congress and the U.S. government more tra
  (tags: itconversations podcast politics greg-elin sunlight-foundation)
• New Google Adwords Formula = Just Pay Us More
  You gotta love the quality score, it’s mystery factor X, pretty much allowing us to get whatever number we want on the other end. It’s like simple algebra, and we googlers love maths. We could have just said “we’re going to take the most you are w
  (tags: advertising adwords funny ppc seo sem google quality-score)
• The Goodspeed Update » Building a Community with Bits and Backhoes
  With a background including a 13-year stint as Rice University’s webmaster and degrees in computer science and information architecture, Riddle is no stranger to online systems. After months of tinkering, the website he calls “Mueller Fever” is onli
  (tags: austin cyberinfrastructure development neighborhood urban prentiss-riddle rob-goodspeed mueller mueller-fever)
• Ann Arbor Garage Sales Saturday 9/1
  Ann Arbor garage sale map for this weekend.
  (tags: annarbor garage-sale michigan map geo maps neogeography i-has-a-bukkit-for-sale)
• How to Grow a Pineapple Top Indoors
  Pineapple is one of the world’s most unique and exotic tropical fruits, yet it is possible to grow it in a temperate zone under controlled conditions; with the most difficult part of the process just getting it rooted. Although you may not be able to grow
  (tags: bromeliad cool fruit fun garden gardening horticulture howto nature pineapple plants projects reference)
• Google Maps: AATA Route 5 outbound unscheduled detour
  student move-in route deviations on the 5 outbound cause unhappy riders who don’t get picked up
  (tags: aata theride annarbor michigan bus transportation)
• alt.portland
  Welcome to the alt.portland guide, aka the Portland [Low-Budget] Guide…
  (tags: portland travel pdx oregon via:twitter)
• Police seek man who scammed local residents – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Pittsfield Lt. Steve Heller said the 41-year-old man distributed fliers last summer advertising the services of “Dependable Painting and Handyman Services” and “Color Touch Handyman and Painting Services.” Heller said those companies didn’t exist.
  (tags: annarbor michigan fraud undependable-painting unhandyman)
• Secretary Mike Leavitt’s Blog: Rural Rwanda
  rwanda notes from HHS sec Leavitt
  (tags: blog govblog government rwanda africa)
• Seam Carving
  demo of algorithm that resizes photos by clipping a pixel at a time from “seams”
  (tags: cool demo editing seam-carving flash graphics images photography photoshop photo pictures tools webdev)
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
  If you don’t have anyone on your founding team who is capable of being CEO, then sell your company — now.
  (tags: advice ceo leadership startup)
• Reporter Caught in Mysterious Airport Lockdown
  more security theater
  (tags: lax tsa wtf-mate xeni)

AATA Route 5 student move-in detour details

The AATA’s #5 route is detoured during student move-in. When I rode the bus yesterday, a number of people were visibly upset at bus stops because their bus had not come for an hour. Today’s bus took a different detour than yesterday’s. I plotted everything I could find, and marked the nearest good stop that was reachable by all of the various detour routes that are plausible.

This contradicts the posted information, which says

Route 5 Packard
To Ann Arbor: Regular route on Packard to State to William to Fourth to the Blake Transit Center. There will be no service on Thompson Street.

To Ypsilanti or Meijer: Regular route from the Blake Transit Center to William and Thompson, continuing on William to State to Packard to resume regular route. There will be no service on Thompson Street.

I don’t know if the Packard detour was a planned detour from the detour (traffic was mighty bad) or a rogue driver, but I can easily imagine first-time new transit riders being angry and upset.

UPDATE:

Dear Edward Vielmetti:
That was an error on our part and we apologize for the mistake.
Sincerely,
The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority

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Technorati Tags: 48104, 48109, aata, annarbor, bus, detour, map, neogeography, theride

links for 2007-08-30

• Twitter / WSJ
  someone did a half-assed job of stealing the WSJ trademark on twitter
  (tags: twitter twitter-squatter wsj beer-pong greenspan-put)
• CPB: Jobs in Public Broadcasting | WEMU, 89.1 FM, Ypsilanti MI
  Applications are begin accepted for the full-time position of Music Announcer/Librarian for Eastern Michigan University’s jazz, news and blues public radio station, WEMU, 89.1FM.
  (tags: jobs music radio public-radio npr wemu ypsilanti stick-around-ypsilanti)
• Uranium Doped Radioactive Marbles
  Collectors take note: Uranium Glass is no longer manufactured anywhere in the World. Although a few glass manufacturers still have small quantities that they are keeping for historical purposes, no one plans on manufacturing any in the future. Once our st
  (tags: glass nuclear uranium U-238 marbles)
• Excel geocoding adventures « Jon Udell
  i had a problem today that Jon Udell solved and documented 19 days ago. awesome.
  (tags: api awesome excel geo geocode geocoding geolocation gis jonudell map maps office programming vba xml)
• Map Multiple Locations by Address
  excel to kml
  (tags: action addressbook via:ajturner cartography neogeography excel geo geocode geocoding geography geolocation productivity tagging googleearth kml geospatial geotagging geoweb gmap)
• 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
  (tags: cognition edwin-hutchins books review navy ship navigation thinking)
• Chelsea water woes continue – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  City officials had high hopes that a new system called Claricone would reduce the levels of total dissolved solids that the water-softening system produces. They hoped the city would finally be able to meet Michigan Department of Environmental Quality acc
  (tags: chelsea michigan water deq claricone)
• MDOT – football
  Road work affecting game day travel for Saturday, Sept. 1 | University of Michigan – Appalachian State in Ann Arbor, Noon | Michigan State University – University of Alabama at Birmingham in East Lansing, Noon
  (tags: michigan umich transportation roads mdot annarbor lansing msu uab appalachian-state park-at-the-corner-of-edgewood-and-berkley bring-back-the-football-train)
• Susan Mernit’s Blog: Quote of the Day
  In talking with investors, the choice is really clear: you either believe that networking has passed my generation by…that we will never adopt it, or you believe (as I do) that people in their 40s and 50s will network when the right product comes along.
  (tags: robin-wolander tbdb teebeedeebee facebook-for-boomers socnet socialnetworks via:mernit)
• 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
  (tags: sapporo japan ramen tampopo soupy-noodles food review)
• Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Barrier: Illinois Library Charges $1 for Computer Access
  Library director Nanette Wargo — who maintains there never was a firm deal — said the library has little interest in increasing computer access for children anyway.
  (tags: libraries technology library superpatron illinois bad-idea papa-can-i-play-ice-cream-truck)
• Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com
  Even if they have not heard the term, most people will be familiar with the idea of what a company called Wesabe refers to as “bank puke”. This firm, which is also based in San Francisco, plans to make money by clearing up such puke and turning it int
  (tags: semanticweb economist technology wesabe bank-puke money accounting)
• Elks see how their donations are used – mlive.com
  “Our unique therapy camp teaches children basic fundamental life skills such as walking, speaking and feeding themselves,” said Tim Bennett, Bay Cliff camp director. “The Elks are best friends of the camp, and children and have been part of the Bay Cliff
  (tags: marquette michigan bay-cliff big-bay yellowdog elks)
• LOT OF POKEMON CARDS THAT MY KIDS TRIED TO SNEAK BY ME – (eBay item 130144061675 end time Aug-22-07 12:03:50 PDT)
  Description (revised)

  I’m selling a bunch of Pokemon cards. Why? Because my kids sneaked them into my shopping cart while at the grocery store and I ended up buying them because I didn’t notice they were there until we got home. How could I hav

  (tags: auction blog cards copywriting ebay funny grocery humor interesting ad advertising irc kids mom mommyblog parenting pokemon shopping todo writing)

• Northern Illinois Advertising Federation
  The Northern Illinois Advertising Federation is the ad industry trade association serving advertising creatives, public relations, marketing, and other communications industry professionals in and around Rockford, Illinois. Learn more about what we do and
  (tags: rockford illinois advertising adclub a2ac via:lgirard pr marketing ad)

• WordPress › Support » Using Word 2007 to Blog with WordPress — full tutorial
  tutorial how-to go from word 2007 to wordpress
  (tags: word wordpress howto tutorial blog word-2007)

• Station: Ann Arbor, MI – Ann Arbor Railroad
  Jim Sinclair shares the following comments about the University of Michigan home football games and the Ann Arbor Railroad’s role in getting fans to and from the Stadium. The UM Stadium “the big house”, is located adjacent to the Ann Arbor Railroad’s Fer
  (tags: annarbor michigan railroad train football go-blue umich big-house stadium ferry-yard football-wye bring-back-the-football-special-trains)

• Apple – iWork – Numbers
  new apple numbers spreadsheet
  (tags: apple numbers spreadsheet excel cool i-am-not-a-number)

• Alan Gutierrez: When The Saints Go Marching In – Politics on The Huffington Post
  alan on rebuilding new orleans
  (tags: development fema future government grassroots katrina hurricanekatrina law neworleans no politics nola a2b3 huffpo)

• Food System Economic Partnership – Food System Economic Partnership
  FSEP exists to catalyze change in the food system of Southeastern Michigan. We provide research, education and outreach with urban and rural partnerships, resulting in agricultural development opportunities, sustainable communities, and healthy local econ
  (tags: food michigan annarbor washtenaw agriculture preserve-farmland-eat-more-beets local)

• Festifools
  Studio Open House, Thurs Sept 27th, 5-7pm, 1239 Kipke St. (Campus Security Services) rm 1309.
  (tags: via:shurand festifools via:myra-klarman events annarbor details-please)

• Penny Stamps Lectures | Thursday 5pm | Michigan Theater | Ann Arbor, MI | A&D – Distinguished Visitor Series
  Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Distinguished Visitors Program brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with studen
  (tags: annarbor thursday-events penny-stamps art design events lectures)

• The Sleek, Chic, High-Tech . . . Hearing Aid – WSJ.com
  Racing green, or cabernet red? A sleek geometric triangle, or an artsy teardrop-like curve? Switzerland’s Bernafon AG offers a red one with a white cross that might coordinate with your Swiss Army knife.
  (tags: hearing audio hearing-aid wsj augmentataion extra-sensory-perception)

• The Power Lunch, Cafeteria-Style – WSJ.com
  But now, as the lunches have begun to draw larger crowds, companies are inviting in the Lunch 2.0-goers as a way to woo potential hires and push their products to influential bloggers who attend. Employers ranging from social-networking company Facebook I
  (tags: lunch lunch2.0 a2b3 annarbor michigan)

• The William Davidson Institute – bop2007 – Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid
  The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University are pleased to host Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid. This conference will be h
  (tags: events umich annarbor michigan bop bop2007 september-events)

• ArborWiki | Hiking Trails
  places to go for a hike or a walk near ann arbor, as noted by arborwiki and a2b3 people
  (tags: arborwiki hiking washtenaw annarbor michigan walk walking walkertracker a2b3)

• James Governor’s Monkchips » If Markets Are Conversations Then Twitter Is Money
  I don’t want to put a dollar figure on Twitter, based on users or something. That is not my point about the value of the service. Rather I just want to emphasize that Twitter is where the action is.
  (tags: twitter strategy socialmedia internet conversations community brand blogs blogging api analysis aggregation)

• Twitter / Edward Vielmetti: a friend’s comcast problems…
  a friend’s comcast problems: “The cable weasels send their youngest subweasel to visit me yesterday”
  (tags: cable comcast comcastic comcastrophe weasel subweasel)

• California grower recalls salmonella- tainted spinach | U.S. | Reuters
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California produce grower Metz Fresh LLC said on Wednesday it voluntarily recalled fresh spinach in grocery stores and food service packages after a sample tested positive for salmonella.
  (tags: spinach food salmonella metz-fresh recall safety buy-local)

• A nation of outlaws – The Boston Globe
  Stephen Mihm is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Georgia and is the author of “A Nation of Counterfeiters,” to be published this week by Harvard University Press.
  (tags: books china chinese copyright economicdevelopment food history politics quality research)

• Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03
  it doesn’t stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, red
  (tags: manifesto farm agriculture food)

• Improving education with teacher of the year | ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers
  Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan.
  (tags: education learning scoble teachers teaching technology video annarbor michigan umich)

• Silicon Alley Insider: Will Mortgage Collapse Hurt Web Ads? Looks That Way
  Will the mortgage collapse blow a hole in bubble 2.0? We’re becoming increasingly persuaded that it will. Why? Because financial advertisers account for more than a third of all web advertising, and as the plunging share prices of investment banks clearly
  (tags: mortgage subprime ad advertising finance bubble)

• New lot offers the cheapest parking in Ann Arbor – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  In about two months, the city is expected to turn the old city maintenance garage at 415 W. Washington into temporary parking until officials determine the future use for the site. While it serves as a parking lot, rates will be $2 a day or $40 for monthl
  (tags: annarbor michigan parking dda downtown ymca neutral-zone-for-grownups)

rearranging the page layout

I’m experimenting with a new page layout for the blog, moving to the new Typepad format where there are two sidebars on the right.

   

links for 2007-08-29

• City may take nightclubs to court to stem violence – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Lowenstein said the problem bars are Studio 4, 314 S. Fourth Ave., Necto Night Club, 516 E. Liberty, Score Keepers, 310 Maynard, Rick’s American Cafe, 611 Church, and Touchdown Cafe, 1220 S. University.
  (tags: annarbor michigan bars violence hey-kids lets-get-rowdy)
• taiwanese snacks menu at Asian Legend on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  scan of menu
  (tags: menu annarbor michigan food eats)
• I haz a donut « I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
  nom nom nom
  (tags: donut want pastries-that-are-strange lolgerbil lolpastries nom-nom-nom)
• Over 5000 ‘net cafe refugees’ in Japan | Herald Sun
  A five-hour stay at an internet cafe in Tokyo costs about Y3,000 ($31.41) with a meal served. Showers are available at Y200 ($2.09) for 30 minutes and clean underwear is on sale.
  (tags: tokyo japan homeless netcafe internet)
• GrandCentral: The New Way To Use Your Phones
  i hate phones but i like to stay in touch; this might be the solution.
  (tags: bookmarks google number phone telephone voicemail phone2.0)
• Superpatrons at the cusp of a Neo-Progressive Movement? « The Other Librarian
  For a librarian to respond to this call is a bit like playing with a loaded gun. A librarian calling for a pseudo-reform in his/her patrons is kind of like reverting to librarian 1.0.
  (tags: superpatron library patron)
• got visibility – Google Search
  we printed it on pencils
  (tags: pencil)
• Student apartment houses shut down by city – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Ann Arbor officials have declared five apartment houses in predominantly student neighborhoods to be uninhabitable, forcing University of Michigan students like Sarah Taylor to look for new places to live just as the fall term is about to begin.
  (tags: annarbor michigan landlord slumlord apartment housing stick-around-ann-arbor)
• MDOT – You only have 11 days left to comment on the state transportation map
  You only have 11 days left to share your thoughts about the state transportation map with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The department is making an online questionnaire about the map available until Friday, Sept. 7. (Please go to the q
  (tags: michigan mdot map maps mapping transportation)
• AATA alters bus routes for U-M student move-in – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Route 5 – Packard • To Ann Arbor: Regular route on Packard to State to William to Fourth to the Blake Transit Center. There will be no service on Thompson Street.
  (tags: annarbor michigan bus aata theride transportation)
• Former library director agrees to repay stolen funds – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  The former finance director for the Ann Arbor District Library again escaped a prison sentence Tuesday after turning over money he posted for a jail bond and agreeing to have his wages garnished.
  (tags: library finance aadl)
• Facebook Interviews: Altura Ventures 1 – Facebook VC at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News
  Facebook will go public in 18 months with an IPO and a valuation of 100 Billion. Yup thats Billion with a B.
  (tags: facebook socialnetwork bubble bubble2.0)
• Medallia Blog: dyeSight $2 Multi-Touch Pad Archives
  awesome $2 hack creates a multi-touch input device; see the video demo.
  (tags: multitouch hacks make apple mac osx video demo demo-or-die)
• Medallia Blog: Fun with the iPhone accelerometer Archives
  neat iphone hacks – jobso bobblehead, tilt maze
  (tags: iphone hacks make accelerometer jobso bobblehead)
• Crain’s Detroit Business | Michigan life sciences funding
  Kalamazoo-based Venomix Inc. got $750,000, in part from the Southwestern Michigan First Life Science Venture Fund L.P. Venomix, a spin-off from the University of Connecticut, hopes to make insecticides with reduced environmental impact.
  (tags: kalamazoo michigan venomix spiders insecticide)
• Water and Woods Network Staff Authors
  Our staff author program at Water and Woods allows writers with good quality writing skills, and knowledge in a particular field, to become part of our staff of authors. As a staff author you receive more exposure than the writer who submits an article fo
  (tags: hunting)
• MLC Blog » Is Michigan ready for Evergreen?
  Up to now, we have declined to offer such a service. Lately the questions have become more numerous and with the added twist of whether we would consider running Evergreen, the open source ILS used by public libraries in Georgia.
  (tags: michigan library mlc opac catalog ils evergreen pines georgia do-it superpatron)
• Epicenter – Wired Blogs
  Unfortunately, given that a lot of the site’s building blocks are so simple to exploit, the road has become murky between the honest entrepreneurial developer and the exploitive spam-happy scam artist. This reality not only besmirches the user experience,
  (tags: facebook facebacklash besmirch skepticism overhaul ux spam lovely-spam 500-hats-full-of-spam)
• 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.
  (tags: blog california food korean recommendations review irvine)
• Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  ANN ARBOR, MI—After completing a poem originally titled “Last Dawnbreak,” local poet Keith Taylor spent five additional minutes removing verbs and punctuation in order to give the piece a level of vagueness more suitable for publication.
  (tags: annarbor fun funny humor poems writing poets local keith-taylor orion-orion)
• Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth | the Daily Mail
  Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards’ centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales.
  (tags: foam pacific-ocean pollution nsw)
• TheStar.com – News – Supports added to Montreal underground
  Six downtown subway stations along one of the transit system’s busiest lines remain shut down as do a number of businesses in the area.
  (tags: montreal subway transit underground via:toddmundt)
• advertising.dumblittleman.com – Write for us!
  Simply send me a draft of your tips on productivity, finance, parenting, technology, or anything that you believe average people could use. Please refer to the 2 posts shown above as guides.
  (tags: blog blogging marketing writing pnb pointless-numbered-bullshit)
• Annoyed Librarian: The Cult of Twopointopia
  [Note: I should state for the record that not everyone who advocates “user-centered” services or the use of social software is a twopointopian. Twopointopians are those folks who have the fervor of converts or ideologues, who want a “movement” and a “ma
  (tags: library2.0 twopointopia library superpatron dyspeptic)
• Michigan Inn building burns- mlive.com
  Robertson said the property owner, Dale Newman, responded to a security system alert Sunday night but left after finding nothing. He returned to the scene as crews fought the blaze. He could not be reached for comment this morning.
  (tags: dale-newman landlord annarbor michigan)
• Mlive.com’s Printer-Friendly Page | “Michigan Inn Has To Go”
  However, it’s too bad that just this once, when fire strikes, this horrendous eyesore that has plagued the west side of Ann Arbor for many, many years, could have just burned to the ground. Its owner, Dale Newman, should be held accountable for this mess
  (tags: michigan annarbor michigan-inn dale-newman landlord)
• Second Recess: Dale Newman is not a good landlord
  We have a court date set for June 19th to recover double the amount owed for security deposits. As soon as I handed her the paper, the lady behind the counter pointed at Dale’s name and said “ah yes, he’s in here frequently.” I’m reassured that he’s a rep
  (tags: dale-newman annarbor michigan landlord)
• First floor window commercial space near corner of 4th Ave and Liberty
  $3400 neg. apx. 2300SqFt. Located downtown Ann Arbor, one block from Main and Liberty, in Town Center Plaza next to Eastern Accents. Kitchen Area, and bathroom in space. Space may be able to be broken up into two spaces. 210 S. 4th Ave. For more informati
  (tags: annarbor michigan realestate dale-newman landlord)

Mondo Concreto

This video is making the email rounds in town; if you’re not part of that world, you’ll find this amusing. “Join the thousands of people racing from the suburbs to purchase a Mondo Concreto condo.” Says one viewer: “lmao”. Another: “really, really bad”.

Technorati Tags: 2007, 48104, mondo, concreto, condo, development, annarbor, video

links for 2007-08-28

• DNR map of Sleeper Lake Fire
  Julie unearthed this detailed map of the Sleeper Lake Fire showing which days the fire was at which locations and how far it has burned. map credit B. Maki
  (tags: fire map maps sleeper-lake sleeper-lake-fire newberry michigan)
• Thank you – it goes a long, long way!
  We write thank you notes to our clients and cards to seminar attendees when they leave a business card. Most people react by saying, “I don’t have time to do all of that.” One tip we give to the executives we coach is to keep a small stack of cards with s
  (tags: thanks thank-you postcard business-cards reciprocity gratitude via:jason-womack)
• Riin’s Rants » Blog Archive » Oh, right…
  So, does anyone know where I can get vegan pesto in Ann Arbor? Or can I mail order it in the US? And does anyone have easy, and I mean really easy, vegan recipes that don’t have tomatoes? (Or beans, lentils, or peas. I don’t like those. Yep, I’m pic
  (tags: annarbor michigan pesto vegan where-to-buy recipes easy-recipes)
• Riin’s Rants » Blog Archive » Continued thoughts
  I thought about it. You know, I actually like riding the bus. I like having time to knit. Having time to knit, man, I really like that. And you know what else I like? Friendly drivers who treat me like a human being. Unlike the drivers I encountered when
  (tags: annarbor michigan bus aata knitting knit-on-the-bus)
• Why Facebook Is the Future – TIME
  Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows you’re a dog.
  (tags: 2007 facebook future identity socialmedia socialnetwork toread wikipedia)
• Becky Zaheri – Hurricane Katrina – Two Years Later – TIME
  time magazine special on new orleans
  (tags: neworleans thinknola katrina hurricanekatrina louisiana)
• I’ve Got a Job Offer! Placing a Future Value on College Degrees – Harvard Business Online’s Tammy Erickson
  A second argument: in their desperate search for college talent, companies will join professional sports franchises in recruiting individuals earlier and earlier in the pipeline. It will become a sign of your exceptional talent to proclaim that you were h
  (tags: jobs employment recruiting college high-school talent)
• Google AdWords Help Center: What is the Placement Performance report?
  Google has always provided full online statistical, conversion, and financial reporting for the Google AdWords program. Now with the Placement Performance report, you can gain greater transparency about your campaigns’ performance on the content network
  (tags: google content-network placement-performance ads advertising targeting performance mo-money)
• Yooper Yarns: FIRE UPDATE / Engadine fire
  there is a fire burning in the cedars some place over by Engadine. It apparently has been caused by logging operations and there currently is not any more info than that. They have already sent fire crews over there to assist and that is all I know for no
  (tags: fire newberry engadine michigan wildfire dnr sleeper-lake)
• Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007 – The William Davidson Institute
  kevin jones will be in town for this – The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University are pleased to host Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of
  (tags: need-funding change conference umich cornell economics baseofthepyramid via:mahatm)
• Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years « Scobleizer
  I explain how SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry.
  (tags: 2007 search scobleizer bacn mahalo techmeme facebook spamming-the-social-graph)
• wnn8-27-07: Northern Michigan U to define “library of the future”
  Wong said the campus community this year must begin to confront one of the most complicated issues of his presidency: defining a “library of the future” for Northern. Wong said the discussion must begin now so that a plan is in place before funding be
  (tags: northern nmu marquette michigan library superpatron)
• Man stabbed during melee outside downtown bar – Latest from the Ann Arbor News – MLive.com
  Officers responded to the 300 block of South Fourth Avenue for a fight in progress just as the crowd from Studio 4 let out at about 2:10 a.m., according to reports.
  (tags: annarbor michigan peaceful quiet not-peaceful not-quiet studio-4 liked-it-better-when-it-was-maudes)
• Plan59 > 1950s Art > The Retro Graphics Archive
  nice collection of mid-century graphics
  (tags: 1950 ads advertising graphics americana awesome mid-century vintage webdesign portfolio)
• Statistics on Book Circulation Per User of U.S. Public Libraries Since 1856
  Library book circulation per user has no strong, long-run trend. From 1856 to 1978, library users borrowed from U.S. public libraries about 15 books per user per year. From 1978 to 2004, book circulation per user declined approximately 50%. The growth
  (tags: books circulation library superpatron via:jessamyn)
• Libraries and Library Use
  The growth of public libraries has been a vitally important aspect of the development of the information economy. At least in the U.S., public libraries have achieved near universal service and mediate between wide-area communication and local interests.
  (tags: statistics library libraries superpatron economics analysis data must-meet-this-person)

Drought maps from the U Nebraska Lincoln’s National Drought Mitigation Center

It’s been a dry summer in Michigan, enough so to spur on forest fires in the UP, impact agriculture across the state (check your farm share), and cause Governor Granholm to implement widespread bans on burning.

Thanks to Julie from MyMidwestWeb who is tracking the Sleeper Lake Fire near Newberry, I found the National Drought Mitigation Center at the U of Nebraska Lincoln and its drought monitoring tools and maps. Here’s a sample showing the current late August dry spots; you’ll want to look there for current and up to date information.

Technorati Tags: drought, fire, maps, mymidwestweb, sleeper-lake-fire, newberry, michigan, weather, rain, agriculture, farming, for:cjuon

links for 2007-08-27

• Too Many Chefs: Sham-Crack Shakes
  Now if I could just get McDonalds to buy in to my Surf and Turf Combo meal (Filet-o-Fish/Hamburger/small fry)
  (tags: food not-food surf-and-turf recipe via:goodfood via:kcrw want do-not-want conflicted)

links for 2007-08-26

• sooeveningnews.com | sleeper lake fire update 8/24/07
  He said the DNR’s drought code – a compilation of rainfall, wind and temperature – normally gets worrisome at about 300 or 400. “We just cleared 600,” he said. “We are really dry.”
  (tags: sleeper-lake fire newberry michigan wildfire newspaper)
• your monkey called
  map of breakfast from woot
  (tags: woot maps strange-maps breakfast topo geo)
• SearchEngineWatch: A Tale of Two City Guides
  The redesign also importantly follows a trend toward verticalization (discussed in past columns) by delineating certain categories through a new, city-guide like interface. These include Restaurants, Health & Beauty, and Home & Garden.
  (tags: guide local reviews web yahoo-local iyp)
• WHOLESALE JEANS: Denim Jean Wholesalers of Lee, Wrangler stretch bluejeans, denim shirts, Lee stretch, Wrangler stretch, and denim dusters cases at discount wholesale prices – Denim Blue Jean Discounters
  discount blue jeans, wholesale; with all the product numbers you need. my latest were 39902RI wrangler 32×30 from an outlet mall
  (tags: jeans denim shopping wholesale sku)
• Cherry / Plum / Peach / Nectarine
  big list of prunus cultivars, including the stanley plum
  (tags: cherry plum peach nectarine prunus binomial-nomenclature stanley-plum)
• Ian Bogost – A Professor’s Impressions of Facebook
  Quite the opposite: I want to suggest that we don’t know how to use Facebook at all, we do not understand how it alters our current and future relationships with one another. But the act of trying to answer this question is itself a model we can set for o
  (tags: facebook 2007 culture net.culture)