Editor’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 can do is say, "Have fun with it." You make music with it, of a ...
Editor’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 it still occupies only a niche in the secular world. The Bible may be the ...
Ghost 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 that exist as nearly pure electronic works of art. Their designers are tech savvy in ...
How 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 here, this one’s for you. It’s not only about how automatic transmissions work. It’s about ...
A 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 much information as I could find about fish fry dinners in the area, with reviews ...
I 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. In the interests of documenting the process, here's a short checklist for how to do ...
Tuesday 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.
Local 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 new city and want to get involved in the local culture. Here's a snapshot of ...
The 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 Google Apps Status Dashboard. An account from Google VP Ben Treynor, posted on the official ...
The 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 are sorted by state and county and are searchable by name.
With 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 the net - some savory, some sweet - to get you through the storm.
Zebra 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 site Tuesday morning to go under the icy waters of Argo Pond and inspect the ...
The 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 Internet Archive's periodic scans of the Internet, and it lets you see how the web ...
Imagine 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 write about. If you are like me, you want to turn to some element of ...
This 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 on the prairie which has some parallels with Ann Arbor, including sharing the nickname of ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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