I know the website says the seller is in California, but something tells me this expensive LCD projector wasn’t an unwanted gift – maybe it’s the metal bracket that gives it away. I think I know someone missing a few. Also, my friend tipped me off to this interactive electoral map. With presidential election results […]
Articles of note: “Unfortunately, it is inevitable that these further cuts will affect our academic programs in ways that students will notice,” Courant said. > From “Proposed 5% cut alarms U-M” > And “State OKs petition to ban affirmative action”
I just found this excellent Washington Post feature called “Faces of the Fallen.”
Here are David Sucher’s ‘three rules’ to follow to build an ‘urban village’, from his book “City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village”: 1) Build to the sidewalk2) Make the building front “permeable” (i.e., no blank walls)3) Prohibit parking lots in front of the building “The Three Rules are the “one big thing” we […]
A Michigan blogger has just posted some photos taken in the abandoned Michigan Central Station and the Fisher Body Plant #21.
Think you know what makes for a “cool” city? Michigan state government wants to know – they’ve posted a lengthy survey on the web at michigancoolcities.com.
Wondering why the flag on the U-M diag has been at half mast recently? On December 10 Governor Granholm ordered flags in Michigan to be flown at half-mast “whenever one of Michigan’s own is killed in the line of duty. “