Damn it, is there anything Ann Arbor can do right? Cool business? Check. Favorite place at which townies and student alike hang out? Check. Greedy-assed landlords pricing out successful 10-year-old business? Double-check. Straight from Todd, Leopold’s is gone by this summer. Thanks a lot as-yet-unnamed landlord; you’ve made Ann Arbor a little more soulless than […]
Back in May, a Washington Post article detailed the effects of diacetyl of workers at popcorn factories. Known to some as “popcorn lung”, the chemical causes a rare but fatal lung disease, which only a transplant could cure. Now four major popcorn manufacturers (the Orville Redenbacher, Act II, Pop Secret and Jolly Time brands) have […]
Only (and I do mean only) in West Michigan. A loser [ed. /snicker] in Wyoming’s City Council race plans to file a complaint with the Kent County clerk’s office over a box of cookies.Roger Haynes is accusing former state Representative Joanne Voorhees of subconscious campaigning by leaving cookies at an elementary school. He claims the […]
You’ve heard of LOLCATS. You’ve heard of I Can Has Cheezburger. You may even have heard of LOLPRESIDENT (epic Fark thread). Now, there is HALOCATS. If you haven’t played Halo 3, this will not be funny. The Internet, opiate for the masses.
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This site is now running WordPress 2.3, thanks to the new upgrade; check out the link for a huge feature list. Of note (and the reason for this post) is the new native tagging system. After trying to get Ultimate Tag Warrior working on this site, and giving up, WP now has it built in. […]
Bits and pieces in no particular order: I joined the Chelsea Wellness Center; I need to lose weight, J– gets a discount through the hospital, and it’s easy to use. I love wikis but don’t get to use them enough. U of M IT has begun offering installation of MediaWiki for use around campus. My […]
I began a long rambling post about the Katrina-ravaged coast yesterday (the anniversary of the hurricane’s landfall), but became bored by my own self-righteousness. I’ve never been to Louisiana or Mississippi so my attempts to personalize what is happening in that region fall flat. Instead, you, dear reader, should go out and read for yourself […]
Nothing too graphic, but disturbing to think of the randomness of this. (No embed, sorry, follow the link if you want to watch the video.) kare11.com – KARE 11 Television
[Irma] Ortiz, 44, is among a group of California food-flavoring workers recently diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of fixed obstructive lung disease. Also known as popcorn workers lung, because it has turned up in workers at microwave-popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs. A transplant is the only cure. Cripes. Time […]