I really don’t care if the U builds a dorm at the Frieze site, but this letter to the editor in the Ann Arbor News is just too funny to pass up. After making three reasonable arguments, mostly surrounding the historical nature of the building, Susan Wineberg blows us away with that crescendo point number […]
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I’ve turned comments back on for new posts. SixApart released a patch (that was quick!) to take care of the comment mailer issues.
Damn it! I bought the Bruce Hornsby Greatest Hits album from iTunes last night (stop laughing; I like it). At least 3 of the tracks are live tracks. I happen to like some live tracks, but the vast majority of live tracks (not just these) are utter crap. If we have to label explicit lyrics, […]
This has been a good week for comics and their writers. First up, Penny Arcade does it again, taking the major sports leagues to task for these idiotic exclusive deals with various game companies. Why is this bad for video games? Because. And Auchtoon does it again. Now, I’m no economist (and nowhere near retirement) […]
In a tribute fitting a man of his caliber, an asteroid has been named in honor of the author, humorist, and activist. Asteroid 2001 DA42 is now known as douglasadams. MSNBC helped in the naming process, although it’s not exactly clear what they did other than suggest him as a candidate. If they were the […]
There’s a huge vulnerability in the current version of Movabletype, so I’m disabling comments. Hopefully a patch will be out soon and comments will return.
Much has been written about the New Journalism; that somewhat revolutionary way of publishing that boggles the minds of many newspapermen and cheers the fanboys to no end. I don’t profess to be Dan Gillmore (or, for that matter, any of the people who rank in the Technorati), but I was a journalism-type person at […]
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I just had a moment of clarity, and it creeped me out. I won’t relate who’s blog I was reading, but suffice it to say I was exploring my region when it dawned on me what bothers me so much about Ann Arbor and zealots in general. They define themselves via hate. I’m talking about […]