Articles tagged: links
COLUMN: This week's web picks: Make music, track trends, play 'Krazydad' games
Posted: Apr 14, 2012Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Wolfram Tones This is another one of those sites where all I ... Read more »
COLUMN: This week's web picks: Sacred texts, the Sistine Chapel and rewriting your favorite movie or TV show
Posted: Apr 07, 2012Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Sacred Text Archive This may be a megasite about a megatopic, but ... Read more »
COLUMN: This week's web picks: Ghost City, Wikipedia books, City Data and more
Posted: Mar 31, 2012Ghost City I can honestly say I haven’t a clue what this site means. And that’s why I like it, though I haven’t completely given up trying to figure it out. T here are websites ... Read more »
COLUMN: This week's web picks: Learn how stuff works; get smart with Edge
Posted: Mar 24, 2012How Stuff Works As a native Easterner, one of the first things I learned years ago was that Midwesterners know how things work. How I envy them! Since I know there are many non-natives around ... Read more »
With poll: Who has the best Lenten fish fry? Your guide to fish dinners around town
Posted: Mar 10, 2011A fish fry, hosted at the social hall of a Catholic church or fraternal organization, is an area Lenten tradition. They are fundraisers and community gathering places with traditions that go back decades. Here's as ... Read more »
Links: Checklist for a daily column
Posted: Mar 08, 2011I write a Links column for AnnArbor.com every day, and sometimes when it gets close to deadline and I don't have any ideas I fall back on some techniques that seem to work every time. ... Read more »
With video: Paczki Day 2011 - made locally, or imported from Hamtramck
Posted: Mar 07, 2011Tuesday is Paczki Day, the local celebration of pre-Lenten excess based around the consumption of fat, jelly-filled Polish pastries. Find out where to get them. Read more »
Links: What's on the bulletin board at Beezy's in Ypsilanti
Posted: Mar 03, 2011Local cafes, if they are any good, have a wall full of event and concert posters. The coffee shop bulletin board should be a quick way to find your people if you are in a ... Read more »
Tech Links: Gmail downtime; back up your mail, or live without it
Posted: Mar 01, 2011The postman hits! You have new mail. Google's Gmail electronic mail service was disrupted for some users on February 27, and service outages continued for those users until late on February 28, according to the ... Read more »
Links: The Huron River runs through Ann Arbor in 1819
Posted: Feb 28, 2011The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records Automation web site has more than 5 million documents of land patents, survey notes, field notes and land status records dating back to 1810. The records ... Read more »
Links: Recipes for a wintry mix
Posted: Feb 20, 2011With the weather forecast calling for a "wintry mix" of freezing rain, ice pellets, and snow, it seems only reasonable to look for recipes to go with that forecast. Here are a few from around ... Read more »
Links: Zebra mussels suspected in Argo Dam control system failure; divers on site for icy underwater work
Posted: Feb 01, 2011Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are suspected to be the cause of erratic water flows on the Huron River downstream from the Argo Dam. A team of divers from Solomon Diving in Monroe, Michigan, are on ... Read more »
Links: New version of Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive
Posted: Jan 25, 2011The Internet Archive, a San Francisco based non-profit, has released a beta version of its Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine provides a way to browse through old web sites that have been collected through the ... Read more »
links: Living at random for a day: Random.org, visiting Washtenaw County, voting precincts and Arborwiki
Posted: Nov 01, 2010Imagine that you have to write about something going on in Washtenaw County every single day. (It's easy if you try.) Then imagine that you have, at times, a hard time figuring out what to ... Read more »
Links: Iowa City links: Notes from the other People's Republic ahead of Saturday's Michigan vs. Iowa football game
Posted: Oct 13, 2010This week's University of Michigan football game is a home game against the University of Iowa, which has its home in Iowa City, Iowa. This is reason enough to take a look at the town ... Read more »
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