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 […]
My good friend Joe has been embroiled in the fight for democracy in his Teamsters local. As outlined in this article from The Nation, Local 743 leadership has routinely sold out its members and stolen elections to maintain their grip on the local. They’re having trouble fighting their legal battle, and are trying […]
Brain Kerr sent me this Michigan Daily article about a student-led effort to organize Ann Arbor restaurant workers.
In an attempt to recognize and remedy the hardships faced by employees of local eateries, a group of University students developed the Restaurant Workplace Project-Ann Arbor, a coalition advocating safe and fair working conditions for all employees, including […]
Malcolm Gladwell, one of my favorite writers, is now blogging. In this post he writes about criticisms of his positive understanding of the Canadian universal health care system.
In the comments on my about-face on health care, a number of people make the familiar criticisms of the Canadian system. Care is rationed. You wait […]
Ophcrack 2.0 — The fastest Windows password cracker
Windows password cracker. When a Windows password gets lost, I usually just use a password reset tool. But this would work, too.
(tags: windows passwords crack)
Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 1 : Journal : Mark Boulton | Information design
(tags: design grid web)
Subtraction: The […]
Google Maps Mania: Google unveils Google Transit Trip Planner
Google to launch transit-based trip planner — seems down at the moment and initially only supports Portland, OR. I hope theirs is at least as good as HopStop for NY and better than their driving directions!
(tags: transit mapping map planning travel)
menavsben.mov (video/quicktime Object)
Mena Trott (presenter) and […]
strandbeest
This guy builds and “evolves” wind-powered robots mostly out of PVC and posts videos to his web site
(tags: robots robotics windpower project video fun technology towatch)
Stats about all US cities - maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.
Repository of all kinds of stats about US cities.
(tags: urban cities data lists reference location)
Green roofs […]
CouchSurfing - The world is smaller than you think!
Find couch to crash on. Offer couch to crash on.
(tags: travel socialsoftware cheap community budget socialnetwork)
Boing Boing: Xeni interviews Steven Soderbergh in WIRED
(tags: toblog)
The World Of Kane.
This architecture is vaguely Ahernian
(tags: architecture retro design brazillian)
Rails and Django meets in Chicago (Loud Thinking)
Dave H’s (ruby on rails) […]
They finally posted my soon-to-be former job. It’ll also be posted at mplp.org by the end of the day. I’m still trying to figure out work here in New York, but I’m at least a month or two away from sheer panic, and still have many open doors. I’m more worried about […]
I have a soft spot in my heart for Wobblies. Some of the coolest, weirdest, most interesting people I’ve ever met are hard core IWW members. I’ve always felt the IWW as an organization matters more as an historical movement than a contemporary one, but they just keep chugging along, fighting against irrelevance. […]
