Google recently released a couple of tools that make it easy to mount folders over the network with SFTP. They did this by implementing FUSE, which stands for “Filesystem in Userspace.” FUSE supports “plug-ins” that turn various kinds of network connectivity into “mountable” drives. Google went one step further and wrapped a […]

I just found out via ArborUpdate that Pfizer is leaving Ann Arbor for good, leaving behind a 117 acre facility and taking 2700 well-paying jobs out of the local economy. As the discussion on AU points out, Pfizer was a huge taxpayer and contributor to local non-profits. This is a hefty blow to […]

I made a Pando package of the “Play it Safe, Vol. 4″ mp3 posted on the WFMU blog. It’s a 43 minute long record published in 1972 design to play looped to sound like people were home. So so strange. If you want to get this via p2p goodness, get it […]

A button owned by a friend of mine back in Ann Arbor provides the title for this post. Amanda called me out on her blog, announcing somewhat cryptically the upcoming Idiotarod. She says:

I have a friend who said once “oh, yeah, we do that in Ann Arbor, too” and I am here to […]