Edward Vielmetti is inviting you to A2B3 lunch on Thursday at Eastern Accents in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

links for 2009-07-13

2009-07-13T04:06:10-04:00

Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun

At the recent Real-Time CrunchUp 2009, Khris Loux, CEO of one of the web's largest commenting services, announced the "death of the comment". This declaration was extremely significant as Loux's JS-Kit is currently installed on over 600,000 sites. He blames the death on social media sites like Twitter and Flickr and the rise of "parallel channels away from [the] product". In essence, dialogue has moved from a singular destination to a series of parallel but separate social networking channels.

(tags: twitter comments)
Alaska’s tab for ethics complaints about Palin: $1.9 million | csmonitor.com

If public-records requests are expensive, the Palin administration’s practices help make them so, says Gregg Erickson, a Juneau economist and former state revenue official who publishes a specialized newsletter on Alaska budget issues.
“They have taken the position that a lawyer has to look at every single record before its release. If a lawyer has to look at it and review it, and maybe write a legal opinion on it, well, that’s going to be expensive,” says Mr. Erickson. Court fights also add to the costs, he says.

Citizens and journalists who sought public records have been socked with huge bills. At one point, the Palin administration presented the Associated Press with a bill of $45 million for copies of official state e-mails sent to Palin’s husband, to the McCain campaign, and to federal agencies.

(tags: alaska palin,sarah foia ethics the-high-price-of-transparency)
What is the fastest way to draw an image from discrete pixel values in Python? - Stack Overflow

I wish to draw an image based on computed pixel values, as a means to visualize some data. Essentially, I wish to take a 2-dimensional matrix of color triplets and render it.

Do note that this is not image processing, since I'm not transforming an existing image nor doing any sort of whole-image transformations, and it's also not vector graphics as there is no pre-determined structure to the image I'm rendering- I'm probably going to be producing amorphous blobs of color one pixel at a time.

(tags: python graph image heatmap numbers via:mahatm)
On gathering feedback, in person and online - AnnArbor.com

I like UserVoice, I really do; but it couldn't stand up to a dedicated person spamming it with foul language over and over again, and until there's enough spam control to deal with that operational issue in real time it's just going to have to be de-emphasized for now. (suk)

(tags: uservoice annarborcom comments newspaper feedback be-careful-what-you-wish-for)
ÜberTwitter Download

Welcome! You are moments away from experiencing a truly advanced Twitter client developed especially for BlackBerry devices. We are in our third Beta test phase now, but encourage you to download and try this version as we continue to refine and develop the product.

(tags: twitter mobile blackberry beta)
MediaShift Idea Lab . Saving Journalism, One Idea at a Time | PBS

We've become accustomed to a media world dominated by monopolies and oligopolies. So we -- and especially the paid journalists who remain in the craft -- tend to imagine that just a few big institutions will rise from the sad rubble of the journalism business.

That's not where it's going, at least not anytime soon. We're heading into an incredibly messy but also wonderful period of innovation and experimentation that combines technology and people and pushes great and outlandish ideas into the real world. The result will a huge number of failures but also a large number of successes.

(tags: advertising business journalism future newspapers gillmor media)
Apartment Therapy DC | Hot or Not? Stencil Graffiti in Savannah GA

Stencil Graffiti in Savannah GA: Hot or Not?
Hot: That little zebra is street art; walking by him would make me smile!
Not: That little zebra is defacing the beauty of that building; walking by him would make me scowl!

(tags: graffiti hot-or-not zebra apartment-therapy via:jyew)
Facts dog Cleveland newspaper defender - The Future of Journalism - Open Salon

This blog is going to ask for your indulgence. It is frankly obsessed with the 15-minute video at Cleveland.com that both Katharine and I wrote about yesterday. We're thinking of changing the name of this blog to the How Crazy Was That Cleveland Plain Dealer Video? Blog.

It's just such a stunning example of newspaper-industry hubris and cluelessness. True confession: I'm writing about it for the second time, and I still haven't made it past the 10-minute mark, where Cleveland Plain Dealer "reader representative" Ted Diadiun refers to bloggers as "a bunch of pipsqueaks."

(tags: cleveland cleveland-plain-dealer blogging journalism diadiun,ted we-need-a-better-press-corps a-bunch-of-pipsqueaks)

saturday Ann Arbor farmer's market report, u-pick fruit coming up, and what's in bloom

2009-07-12T15:58:14-04:00

I was at market on Saturday (yesterday) and kept an eye out for fruit and for new things at market. Here's some details.

Sour cherries were gone; sweet cherries were $5-$6 per quart.
Both Erie Orchards and Sodt's Berry Farm had blueberries for $40 for a 10# lug.
Basil, $1.00 to $1.25 a small bag, or $10/# (organic).
Grandma from Grandma's Kitchen brought 70 dozen eggs and was sold out at noon.

The U-Pick local report from Mark Charles:

Dexter Blueberry Farm's web site says they'll open on July 20.

Makielski's raspberry farm says "2 weeks" (about July 25.)

and the field report from the Buhr Park wet meadow from Andy Brush

Today at wet meadow II, I saw the following in bloom:

Bee Balm
Black Eyed Susan
Yellow Coneflower
Prairie Dack (just getting going)
Butterfly Milkweed
Hoary Vervain
Daisy Fleabane
Common Milkweed

links for 2009-07-12

2009-07-12T04:05:27-04:00

How typoes are delt with on the Innernet : Greg Laden's Blog

You know, Joel, there is a law that any internet spelling or grammar flame must itself contain a grammar or spelling mistaek. :) :) :)

(tags: typo typoes typos its-just-orthography)
Andrew Alexander - The Stumbles That Led to an Ethics Blunder - washingtonpost.com

The crash occurred July 2, when Politico.com disclosed details of a Post flier seeking underwriters for the first dinner to be held July 21 at Weymouth's District residence. The damage was predictable and extensive, with charges of hypocrisy against a newspaper that owes much of its fame to exposing influence peddlers and Washington's pay-to-play culture. The Post's reputation now carries a lasting stain.

(tags: wapo ethics we-need-a-better-press-corps influence-peddling politico)

a blogger reads the newspaper; day 9

2009-07-11T07:35:00-04:00

day 9 of notes on my new job at annarbor.com

A new newspaper showed up on my sidewalk yesterday afternoon; I'm not going to name it by name, but let's just call it the A2 Gerbil. It was a happy little paper, full of happy little stories about quaint things happening in some leafy town somewhere near here. It took me a couple of minutes to leaf through it and a few more minutes to hunt down the web site for it and appreciate some of its finer points.

I'd pick on the newspaper itself, but you can't see it unless you live here. Like its namesake, it leaves droppings on sidewalks, and if you walk through my neighborhood you'll notice in a few blocks half a dozen houses that didn't bother to pick it up, and if you walk down Packard you'll notice that most houses didn't manage to pick it up. Unsolicited free drop media of all kinds generates litter - in student neighborhoods you perpetually step over rotting copies of the Wall Street Journal delivered but unread.

There were the usual collection of small town newspaper typoes - spelling mistakes in the body copy, and one I noticed in a headline. People make mistakes, but if you're going to the trouble of printing them, you'd hope there were enough people in the production process and enough spell checking tools to catch them.

The web site is a charming example of what newspaper web sites looked before RSS feeds made it possible to syndicate news and read it (minus the ads) in a feed reader. I don't know if that's a deliberate, calculated design decision, or an omission. The one indication that you have that a story is new is a blinking NEW! icon. (really)

Some of the headlines on the web site could use some work. "Construction under way"; that's not helpful. "Ann Arbor's many distinctions"; that could run every week. "Neighbors get their way"; a hint of controversy, I suppose, but again that looks like an every issue column and not really a headline.

It's tough being a photo editor, but really, when you print pictures of people in a parade, it would be really nice to get their names, so that you could say who they were so that someone could clip and send the photo to them. It just looks weird to see a caption like "Someone is walking in a parade" with no idea who it is.

I hate to poke at someone's new enterprise, in part because I'm involved in a new enterprise, and it might have some aspects of it in the first issue that aren't 100% glorious. I'm sure that the Gerbil, and its owners at the esteemed Gerbil-Hamster Corporation, is the product of a lot of hard work. Alas, it doesn't say anything about the town I live in - it's like a picture-perfect mirror to some sleepy parallel universe town where everything is kind of nice in a boring kind of way.

links for 2009-07-11

2009-07-11T04:07:44-04:00

Ann Arbor Area Events & Activities for Preschoolers

I am a stay at home mom to a 3.5 yr old. I have been living in Ann Arbor for 6 years. I have been tracking events of interest for our playgroup for a few months now via a Word document. I decided it was time to go "public" with the list. Way back in college, I minored in computer science and am always online now. So a website, Twitter account, Facebook group, and blog seem the way to go.

(tags: events annarbor preschool kids ical calendar)
10 Reasons Your Mother Is Unverified Voracity | mgoblog

Though I'm not entirely opposed to this style—witness this very post—most of the blog's popularity derives from columns titled things like "Teeth and Blood" and "You Were Killed By A Bear And I Am Sad" and 5000-word exegeses on half of a Michigan football game, which are neither search engine- or link-friendly. With some limited exceptions (like throwing the name of each committed recruit into the post title, and providing SEO-friendly headlines for actual news posts) my philosophy has been to make the content as good, and as difficult to replicate, as possible. (Evidently I feel a good, weird title goes a long way.) The cookie cutter is eschewed.

(tags: blog web inspiration mgoblog ann-arbor-school-of-blogging)
the imponderabilia of actual life: Libraries & State Parks - Hammocks Subject to Availability

If you're in Michigan and you have a library card (and if you don't have a library card, what's wrong with you?), there's a great deal going from now to the end of September, combining two of my favorite things: books and nature. You can go to your local library and get a free pass for any state park (98 of them!), good for seven days (usually there's a $6 vehicle fee, unless you've got an annual pass). It's part of their new Park & Read program:

(tags: library books parks michigan park-and-read superpatron)
Musematic » ROFL…just read this facebook post from my friend Becca

Becca: Hey, I just saw this thing on the television, it’s called the “news” or something like that-these people sit there and read stuff that’s been on the internet for days already. Has anyone seen this? I hear they talk about the weather too, but I left before finding out.

(tags: television internet news future)
YouTube - Saving Newspapers: The Musical

This is a redux of #79. The music is the same, but I enlisted the lip-dub and acting chops of my friends down at the East Bay Express, the local alt-weekly here in the East Bay. Yay!

(tags: newspaper musical future youtube via:bluepencil)

links for 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T04:05:13-04:00

AUTUMN ACROSS THE LAND, PENNSYLVANIA GIVES MUGGSY TAYLOR - 10.28.57 - SI Vault

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, just before 6:05 o'clock one morning last week, hundreds of curious citizens climbed up on their roofs, breathed deeply of the fresh air and partook of an absolutely new fall sport: Sputnik spotting. That evening a Baltimore disc jockey announced his favorite 1957 fall song: Shine on, Harvest Moons.

(tags: sputnik iss whats-that-flying-object party-like-its-1957)
newani.gif (GIF Image, 28x11 pixels)

The blinking GIF image at the brand new Ann Arbor Journal, used to denote new news stories; this is in lieu of having an RSS feed.

(tags: blink blink-blink-blink the-gerbil annarbor michigan news we-need-a-better-press-corps)
How to stop blogging : Article : Nature

But some of the most valuable scientific meetings are more focused and deliberative, and are by invitation only. These intellectually intimate gatherings are valuable precisely because the researchers who attend feel free to speculate and to stimulate their colleagues, and to try to establish new research agendas. Whether an attendee is a blogger or a reporter or a practising researcher is immaterial. The meeting is 'off the record', and all have to sign up to that.
Closed or open? Meeting organizers need to be clear in their minds which of these two approaches is appropriate, and be explicit about it from start to finish. The consequence that, in competitive fields, presentations at open meetings will become even more protective and boring is an inevitable consequence of the Internet.

(tags: conferences bloggers ethics twitter science in:nature)
Ann Arbor Schools Musings: What's In A Name?

If you're going to be "hyperlocal," that is not what blogs look like. Some of my favorite blogs are anonymous, others are attached to real people's names, but they generally: share information; aggregate information; analyze information. And the best do all three, but they are not generally breaking news. [Take a look at some of the blogs that will be on the parenting section of Ann Arbor.com; they are well-written and interesting, but they are not news breaking.] In addition, although some of the most credible bloggers I know do use their real names, others don't. They seem credible to me because their voice comes through (yes, as in "writing voice"), they provide thoughtful analysis, they cite verifiable sources.

(tags: identity annarborcom news voice)
I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter

A lot of people wondered how Google would ever make any money with a search engine. That problem was obviously solved. In any community with vast numbers of highly energetic and passionate users, there will be a variety of ways to make money. The only thing that can stop these services are high costs (YouTube and Facebook suffer from this) or someone building a better mousetrap (Facebook did this to MySpace who did this to Friendster).

By the way, News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch isn’t impressed, either, saying that the site is “a tough investment to justify because it has not yet come up with a sustainable way to make money.” He also gave the exact wrong answer to two questions: “Asked if he was considering buying Twitter, Murdoch said, “No.” Asked about selling MySpace, he said, “Hell no.”"

(tags: diller,barry murdoch,rupert twitter energy passion money its-all-about-the-hamiltons)
Rupert Murdoch reporters in the UK illegally hacked thousands of peoples' data - Boing Boing

British journalists working for Murdoch papers have been on a crime spree, hiring private eyes to illegally hack into the voicemail and data of thousands of people, including " tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills"; Murdoch has paid out over £1M so far to hush it up. The head of the Conservative party's communications is a former Murdoch exec who from the time that much of this crime was committed by his staffers.

(tags: journalism ethics murdoch,rupert rupe hush-money dont-get-me-started-about-ethics)

a2b3 lunch non-summary, day 8

2009-07-09T14:30:26-04:00

day 8 of notes on my new job at annarbor.com

Almost every week for the last 4 years I've been organizing a Thursday lunch. It started with 4 people, and the mailing list now has almost 400; our record attendance at lunch was 41 but the typical table size is much like today, with 22 people sitting around a long table plus one person who came late sitting by themselves. As with any mostly-open lunch series, you get to know people bit by bit over time, and some people take a few weeks to gain the confidence to describe who they are to a group of strangers. Repetition makes it a bit easier.

Most weeks I try, or at least intend to try, to put together some notes about lunch. Now that I'm no longer just an experienced blogger but also a fledgling analog journalist, I took some notes; these are incomplete, but they are more complete than I normally do. I'm hoping to get better at note-taking as time goes on.

People go around the table and introduce themselves; I asked people to say a few words about what's going on for them. This list below links in most cases to people's or organizations Arborwiki pages, since that lets me edit and fill in some of the blanks later or to have some of the blanks already filled in.

In order of how I wrote them down, with a simple question: what did you notice this week? Apologies if I got anything wrong or incomplete, and I know there are incomplete bits here.

Patricia Anderson - U of Michigan emerging technologies librarian - talked about some meetings she was at with folks at the U looking at getting UM communications people engaged in social media; the good story was about introducing people for the first time to SlideShare.

Linda Diane Feldt - holistic health practitioner - spoke about foraging, and teaching people about where to find black raspberries and wondering why more people weren't out picking them.

David C. Bloom - Chelsea resident, coach, connector - noted the new Chelsea library director, Bill Harmer, and his profile on Concentrate.

Susan Hunsberger - professional organizer - remarked that her summertime student neighbors were quite loud, and wondered how best to manage that.

Susan Harris - writer - observed excitement in town before the Art Fair.

Carol Kamm - I Sold It On Ebay - mentioned the Townie Street Party coming up before Art Fair.

John Hritz - embedded systems engineer and Wayne State grad student - liked Gever Tulley's talk on TED on tinkering.

Karen Epstein was walking around town in the evening and noticed that things felt different, but couldn't pin words on it that I was able to repeat.

Kathy Griswold has been noticing and paying attention to vegetation on sidewalks and at street corners that get in the way of clear visibility for kids on skateboards and going to school.

John Lukacs likes the Farmington Farmers Market, open til 2pm on Saturdays.

Valerio Della Porta has some faded Kodachrome slides that he was able to scan in and restore with software (sorry, missed the name of the software) so that he can again appreciate the nice bright colors.

Lance Carlson - ruby programmer for a California company - enjoyed the Rothbury Festival and notes that Bob Dylan's voice has declined further.

Dennis Tokarski - embedded systems engineer - recommends the Heavens-Above web site to find observation times for the International Space Station.

Tom Meloche - working on HomeSchoolAdvantage - has been noticing vegetative reproduction.

Kyle Mulka - twitter developer - muses on the phenomenon of canceling your Twitter account and starting over when your life changes.

Steven Fox of Secure Lexicon notes the reporting on the recent cyberattacks and is looking for folks to interview.

Chris X was in Chicago, and spent some time in a neighborhood that was much obviously more prosperous than the ones he sees here.

Jen Fox notes that her vegetable plants are actually producing things that look like vegetables, not just greenery.

Patrick Haggood notes an awesome treehouse in Dolph Park.

Roger Rayle is looking forward to a week of making sand sculptures.

Mary Morgan, a GM engineer, is newly able to park at the Whole Foods on Washtenaw; usually the problem is that store's lot is full.

Martin Newland remarks that vinyl records, of all recorded media, are on the upswing.

Thanks everyone for coming; please fill in the blanks!

links for 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T04:08:53-04:00

Blogs-on-Paper Idea Runs Out of Steam - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Not hilarious. It makes sense. Over 90% of Politico’s revenue comes from its print edition, even though it’s only distributed in D.C. The truth is, as the CFOs of both the NYTimes and WSJ will tell you, print advertising, on a CPM basis, generates 75x more revenue than Web ads. — Patricia

(tags: blog newspaper print politico revenue-model)
John Palfrey » Citizen Editors

In the past several weeks, I’ve been playing with a new format that my friends at TopTenSources developed. We’ve seen the Citizen Journalist; this idea is the Citizen Editor. Several of us have been using a new bookmarklet-style tool that makes it very easy to tag a story when you’re reading it, provide a bit of analysis, and have it posted to a dedicated website on the topic. It’s in many ways what lots of bloggers do anyway. I remember Dave Winer showing me an aspect of Manila that renders a river of news and then lets you check off stories that you want to appear somewhere — dead simple and fun; this idea is in the same vein, only using different tools and with a different output.

(tags: aggregators citizen-editors winer,dave news newspaper editor)
Engage citizen editors

Time was, newsrooms were instantly fact-checked by a handful of groups, sometimes with a political point of view, sometimes simply hobbyists and aficionados. Gun owners, railroad buffs, retired English teachers … we knew them fairly well.
Today, the Internet has brought countless communities of interest together. Some of them blog and some of them chat among themselves. They can connect with each other — and with us — using only a few keystrokes and the “send” button.

They are the citizen editors of our journalism.

(tags: citizen-editors fact-checking newspapers editing)
United Breaks Guitars | Dave Carroll Music.com

United has demonstrated they know how to keep their airline in the forefront of their customer’s minds and I wanted this project to expand upon that satirically. I’ve been done “being angry” for quite some time and, if anything, I should thank United. They’ve given me a creative outlet that has brought people together from around the world. We had a pile of laughs making the recording and the video while the images are spinning on how to make “United: Song 2” even better than the first. So, thanks United! If my guitar had to be smashed due to extreme negligence I’m glad it was you that did it. Now sit back and enjoy the show.

(tags: unitedairlines sonsofmaxwell song airline music travel dont-piss-off-that-singer-songwriter)
News Innovators on the Frontline: MGoBlog.com | News Innovation

The kind of people who are affected by The Ann Arbor News becoming annarbor.com are generally less hardcore about their sports coverage.

But with the transition to the web, they are promising to link out a lot, so having more of a two-way relationship with the local news sites would help, probably just in terms of Google ranking and maybe some traffic. Right now I link to them and The Free Press fairly often, and I don’t think I’ve ever received a link from any of those sources. That seems a little unbalanced.

(tags: michigan annarbor football umich mgoblog mgoblue back-atcha-buddy)
Chef of Ann Arbor restaurant to compete on show | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Chef Eve Aronoff — chef-owner of eve restaurant in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown district — will compete this fall on Bravo’s “Top Chef: Las Vegas,” the sixth season of the top-rated cable series, the network announced today.

Aronoff, 40, was classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, but her contemporary cooking style is known for its bold, exotic flavors and eclectic international influences that range from Cuba and Africa to Vietnam. Her intimate restaurant, opened in 2003, features a seasonally changing menu, an outstanding wine list and a casually sophisticated ambience.

(tags: aronoff,eve eve annarbor michigan food restaurant top-chef-las-vegas)
~ Akoha - Come Play it Forward

We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve completely sold-out of our initial print run of VIP Starter Decks. Many thanks to all our players for making the first edition of the VIP Starter Kit such a success.

Based on feedback from the community we’ve taken this opportunity to improve the original VIP Starter Deck.

Along with being much shinier and easier to read we’ve added more of your favourite missions (”Thanks Someone”, “Make Someone Smile” and “Give Someone a Surprise Gift” and removed a couple of missions that weren’t getting as much love (”Send Drinks to a Couple in Love” and “Give a Compact Florescent Bulb”).

(tags: social startup pay-it-forward lunch montreal)
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.

(tags: politics internet journalism newspaper hyper-fricking-local the-late-age-of-print)
The Death of Print | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Relying on an advertiser-supported business model is archaic, not to mention dangerous. If it is to survive, the print industry needs to revisit the era when they answered to the reader. When they fought to bring down crooked politicians instead of fighting to clutch onto advertisers. As we can all see now, the advertisers were never loyal companions anyway.

(tags: journalism advertising print the-late-age-of-print newspapers adbusters)

the farmer's market report, day 7

2009-07-08T14:12:56-04:00

day 7 of a continuing series documenting my new job at annarbor.com

There's a wonderful weekly program on KCRW in Santa Monica called Good Food. Host Evan Kleiman does a roundup of reporting from the restaurants and farmers markets around Los Angeles, with interviews with restaurant owners, talks with farmers at markets about the produce they are bringing to market this week, and feature stories about restaurant excursions into the many cuisines that make up LA. It's a very fun show, and especially when it's the middle of an Ann Arbor winter there's something sunny and cheery about hearing that something is in season somewhere.

I went to the Wednesday market at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market today. It's about six blocks from the office, and for a number of years I've been a regular there, either at the Wednesday or the Saturday market. I came with pencil and pad of paper in hand and no shopping basket and walked around looking at what was there, and what caught my eye was berries - lots of berries - really, the high season of the berry season. So to provide a proper catalog, here's what's in season at market this week:

Strawberries. Nearing the end of the season.
Blueberries. Just starting the season.
Gooseberries, red and green. One vendor, Wasem's.
Currants, red and black, also both at Wasem's.
Blackberries.
Mulberries. I was surprised to see them, because I think of them as street tree food, but they were there.
Red Raspberries, both conventional and organic.
Cherries, sweet, sour, and Queen Anne. I've taken a taste to the sour cherries - more flavor and less sweet.

I might have missed black raspberries; they are ripe in bushes around town, including at Wheeler Park and Wurster Park. The juneberry / serviceberry season is either over or just about over depending on the tree you go to. Molly Notarianni, the market manager, says she saw wild gooseberries along a path around Pickerel Lake, near the stone fireplaces.

what I saw on my walk home, day 6

2009-07-08T09:57:57-04:00

day six of notes about my new position at annarbor.com

It's about a mile and a half as the crow flies from my office at annarbor.com to my home. If I'm willing to detour a bit out of the way along the way, I can make a reasonable direct path by bus, bicycle, or walking that takes me through a big part of central campus, the athletic campus, a few neighborhoods, about 20 coffee and ice cream shops, and dozens of bulletin boards where events and notices are posted.

Tuesday's trek home I did on foot with my cell phone open to Twitter and with my eyes open for what was going on on central campus. I got a chance to see new businesses and closing businesses on Liberty St and State St, the relative quiet of the Diag in the summer time, picture-perfect Law Quad greenery, and giant touch-screen displays inside the business school. Interestingly enough, the twitter stream I sent out got enough comments that I felt like I had people double checking the observations I had along the way (and I have half a dozen followups to do to understand more).

I've commuted home from downtown before, but almost all of the time it was of the variety of commute where every single day I caught the exact same bus at the exact last minute and saw the same thing every day. I'm sure there will still be some of that, but a reasonable goal is to walk down a new street every day and just notice what is going on there.

blogger vs journalist, day 5

2009-07-08T09:34:13-04:00

Trying to keep the chronology going - this is back to Monday of this week.

I had a nice and mostly non-confrontational interview with a journalist-with-a-capital-J about my new role at AnnArbor.com . The discussion seemed to center on what kinds of standards (or lack of standards) people have when they self-identify as bloggers, and how that compares with the ideal of what a professional journalist is supposed to be.

I've been wrestling with this, in part because I've been blogging so long (since 1999) that there has been a big shift in what the popular press has characterized and categorized bloggers as. When I started, the blogger was either the extremely widely read Internet explorer who kept a log of the many interesting things that came across their path, or it was the expert in some field (at times a very narrow field) who used a less formal sequential writing tool to capture details and query others in their niche interest about what was going on and relevant.

It's only much later that in some people's minds that blogger turned into the text equivalent of political talk radio show host as seen in text. There it's been obvious that whatever standards of practice there are are much less interested in pursuit of Truth or of careful observation and much more about propoganda in one form or another. Not that the press and the media and public relations hasn't done propoganda for many years - it's just that it's not the norm for old school blogging.

I'm hopeful as I suppose I have to be that AnnArbor.com's experiment with giving voice to readers as contributors makes for something that adds to the whole operation. I've talked to any number of people for whom when I describe what I'm looking for as "experts who can write but who are not professional writers", rather than "bloggers with free reign to spew unsourced and unedited opinion", that some of the concerns ease. But I suspect it will take a whole year of refining what the Ann Arbor School of Blogging has as a style and attitude that sets it apart from the rest of the world that will make the difference.

what can you grow in your Ann Arbor street easement? 36 inch height limit

2009-07-08T06:01:10-04:00

A neighbor got a citation for his day lilies, which were in violation of something; I haven't seen the actual paper he got to know which chapter and verse of city code they violated.

Looking through it I see Chapter 47 STREETS and section 4:2

(4) It is the duty of each owner of property adjacent to a street to maintain that property so that trees, shrubs and other vegetation do not obstruct the passage of vehicles, bicycles or pedestrians on streets or sidewalks. If a property owner fails to maintain the property as required by this section, the City may do the work necessary to bring the property into compliance and charge the property owner for the reasonable cost of the work. If the charges for the work are not paid, they may be assessed against the property, as provided in Section 10.4 of the City Charter.

but that doesn't give much in the way of detailed landscaping guidelines to go by.

UPDATE: I wrote about this exact same issue last year, when a different person I know got the same day lily ticket.

3:15. Lawn extension and city street right-of-way.

The owner of every parcel of land is responsible for grading, planting, mowing and raking the extension or city street right-of-way so that it is covered with turf grass with an average height not in excess of 12 inches or other ground cover vegetation with an average height not in excess of 36 inches above the adjacent road surface unless it presents a view hazard based on the criteria in the AASHTO (American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials) Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 5th Edition (2005), or as subsequently amended. The city shall not be liable for damage to any vegetation planted, or to any property or fixtures placed, in or upon the lawn extension or the city right-of-way that results from work performed by the city in the lawn extension or right-of-way.

(Ord. No. 43-04, § 17, 1-3-05; Ord. No. 19-05, § 4, 5-16-05)

links for 2009-07-08

2009-07-08T04:07:43-04:00

“We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?” « Jon Udell

It’s turning into a nice case study of how organizations and individuals can negotiate shared responsibility for calendar information that’s of common interest. But that’s a story for another day. First things first. I need to give people a reason to care about using a calendar program — any calendar program, could be Outlook or Apple iCal or Google Calendar, so long as it exports iCalendar — in preference to a spreadsheet or word processor. Although the geek tribe can scarcely imagine why, that first step is a doozy.

(tags: icalendar calendar calendar-swamp udell udell,jon ical)
Ann Arbor, MI - Sine Wave Field

[RA: Architect Maya Lin's shaped earth "Wave Field" is 10,000 square feet and has rippled the University of Michigan campus since 1995.]

(tags: annarbor michigan art lin,maya wavefield umich north-campus)
The Shimm: Ann Arbor's Finest 1980's-era Michael Jackson Impersonator

Ann Arbor's "Michael Jackson Guy" reacts to Michael Jackson's Death from John McCarthy on Vimeo.
Ann Arbor, MI is cool for a lot of different reasons, this dude is one of them.

(tags: annarbor michigan jackson,michael)

links for 2009-07-06

2009-07-06T04:09:42-04:00

From Skepticism to Citizen Journalism via a Tea Party « Emerging Technologies Librarian

I learned to mistrust the US popular press several years ago. A friend of mine is positioned high enough in the military to have a sense of the big picture and low enough to have a sense of what is going on in the lives of the “grunts”. It is an interesting point of view, and I have found little tidbits that cropped up in conversation to sometimes be wildly different from what was reported by our media. I learned to use the online resources and search engines available to access news media reports from around the world, and have also found that the richest information often comes not from the big name feeds but from the small town local press where the events unfolded. It is a natural extension of this to take a serious look at citizen journalism, the shift toward reporting major events and news from the viewpoint of the common person.

(tags: a2b3 journalism small-town local citizenjournalism hyper-fricking-local)
Click Nothing: Live and Let Die

What I am saying at a higher level of abstraction is that meaning does not come from playing a game... it comes from playing WITH a game. It is the manipulation not only of the actors in the game that is meaningful, but the manipulation of the game itself. This discussion is not about how to make a game more meaningful. It is about how games mean.

(tags: games play the-only-way-to-win-is-to-play)

links for 2009-07-05

2009-07-05T04:03:48-04:00

The Mosaic Foundation of Rita and Peter Heydon - ArborWiki

The Mosaic Foundation of Rita and Peter Heydon is a charitable foundation run by Rita Heydon and her husband Peter Heydon.

(tags: annarbor michigan foundation)
Palin attorney warns press on 'defamatory material' - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

“Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact,” the Anchorage attorney wrote.

(tags: journalism fact-checking the-burden-of-diligence scurrilous-allegations we-need-a-better-press-corps)
Cops & Doughnuts - Clare City Bakery

What began as a crazy idea among police friends is quickly becoming an international phenomenon. There is a doughnut shop and bakery in Clare, Michigan that has been in constant operation since 1896. This foundation business was within weeks of closing when the members of the Clare Police Department came to the rescue. All of them. That's right, all nine members of the local police department banded together to save this historic business. Dubbed "Cops and Doughnuts," the business boasts handmade confections of all types. Join us for a warm fresh doughnut and a steaming cup of coffee while you enjoy the police decor and friendly, and very safe, atmosphere. Come and see the new store in Clare that everyone is talking about.

(tags: clare clare,michigan michigan cops donuts pastries-that-are-not-strange)
Inside-Out Branding: Marketing Ideas for Leaders of Growing Businesses » Blog Archive » Washington Post Announces Influence/Access Menu & Price List

Due to the tremendous number of inquiries received in the past week about our new, flexible access programs, The Washington Post is pleased to present a menu of customer-driven ways our readers can leverage the Post’s brand to gain invaluable influence and exposure. That’s right, we’re throwing out all of the rules of good journalism, separation of publishing/editorial and all good decorum with a wider-than-ever menu of options!

(tags: wapo we-need-a-better-press-corps influence warning:parody)
Constantinos A. Doxiadis :: Archives

The "Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives" are hosted at the Benaki Museum - Pireos St. Annexe, Athens, Greece. They contain nearly all of Doxiadis' original writings, projects, drawings and photographs, as well as the full body of his correspondence, professional memoranda and notes. A significant part of the catalogue is available for on-line search.

(tags: doxiadis archives architecture ekistics)

links for 2009-07-04

2009-07-04T04:05:20-04:00

Lunchtime Prowl: Grandy or Charlie, Fu-Te Ni's Pitches, Big Al's Back, and Shaving Cream Pies

Here’s one of his latest posts at The Wayne Fontes Experience, about Dave Birkett leaving the Oakland Press’s Detroit Lions beat for a gig covering the Michigan Wolverines at the new AnnArbor.com. It's a big loss for Lions coverage, and it's troubling to see good reporters (Danny Knobler, Jon Paul Morosi) move on. Detroit sports fans are losing out.

(tags: birkett,dave oakland-press annarborcom football michigan)
Get Your API Right « Trek

Every project I’ve worked on in the last two years has heavily involved the use of web APIs. Libersy at the time (no idea about now) had an architecture that was extensively API based, even for communication between internal applications (an architecture I strongly argued against, bee tea dubs). Since then I’ve futzed with web APIs almost exclusively. From very narrow focused uses like University of Michigan’s Bluestream Service, to more broad but still fairly local APIs like the Ann Arbor District Library’s soon-to-be-updated API, all the way to APIs of major web applications like Twitter and Flickr.

(tags: api design howto restful rest webservices via:trek)
Home - Whereabouts Project

This work is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under grant EIA-0303587 as "An Infrastructure for Wide Area Pervasive Computing" and by a grant from Intel. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or Intel.

(tags: michigan umich rfid)
TalkingPoints: An RFID-based Orientation System for People With Blindness

Its goal is explore the possibility of using technology as a means for blind individuals to orient themselves in both outdoor and interior spaces, and to learn more about their surroundings during their normal walking from place to place, or when they choose to explore an area to learn what's nearby. Currently, we do this by tagging objects of interest with an RFID reader, and providing an RFID reader and computer to read the tags. Unlike ordinary RFID readers, the TalkingPoints reader speaks the information conveyed by the tag to the user.

(tags: rfid umich annarbor via:trek)
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Merchants Say Bring Back the Beat Cops

Several people identified “Arthur” as one of the more aggressive panhandlers, known for walking with a single crutch. Rebecca Konieczny, owner of the Busy Hands yarn and gift store, said she’d gotten so mad that she followed him up and down Main Street, calling the police from her cell phone. Someone else suggested that perhaps merchants start carrying mace and pepper spray, to which Martelle responded: “I can’t condone the use of mace on the homeless population.”

(tags: annarbor downtown main-street-area-association arthur pictures-not-words)
Lard: After decades of trying, its moment is finally here. - By Regina Schrambling - Slate Magazine

Only one thing may put lard back on the slippery slope: Google the word as news, and it might as well be lard-fearing 1969 all over again. Newspaper food pages still routinely advise using olive or canola oils rather than "fattening" or "artery-clogging" lard. Or they print idiotic utterances like "you get all the lard you need at McDonald's" (a chain that actually abandoned beef tallow for frying its fries only to be saddled with a trans-fatty substitute). Occasionally an article will make a valid point—lard is still anathema to vegetarians and halal observers—but more often there will be surprise that lard does not taste anything like pig.

(tags: newspaper food lard fat bacon-butter warning:not-for-the-vegans)
Handling CSV Files in Python | Linux Journal

As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than not though, it seems that CSV files use tabs to separate values rather than commas. And let's not even mention field quoting. If you deal with CSV files and you use Python the csv module can make your life a bit easier.

(tags: csv python)

@a2b3 non-summary for July 2, 2009: how to introduce lots of people; day 4

2009-07-03T10:30:00-04:00

Not a summary of what was said, but more of some observations on process.

Lunch was incredibly full today - we had upwards of 30, filled one entire side of the restaurant plus a second table of four. And becuase I asked a question that allowed a long answer, it took a full hour to get through everyone, and some people left early.

In some sense that's OK, if you believe in the open space "law of two feet", and if you think that whoever shows up are the right people. I had a great time but the dynamic was odd enough that I want to try to get to a 100pm stop time again instead of 130pm. So here's some suggestions that came in from that.

1. Bring introductions down to the completely minimal. I've been in circles where the entire intro was full name plus three more words, nothing more, and the intros go around the table at something like two or three per minute. If you have to condense your identity into three words you have to think hard, or be funny.

2. Reach a larger audience in more smaller venues. Promote a set of places to meet at the same time, and let people pick which of many places they want to show up; synchronize and coordinate so that someone organizes at each location at the same time.

3. Use some kind of token - like boarding passes a la Southwest - to hand out to people so that you know how many people are there and which order you handed them out in. Use that both to plan how many seconds you have for each intro and to provide an order to things.

4. Get inspired by events like Ignite Ann Arbor and hold a rock paper scissors tournament to winnow out the crowd down to a reasonable size; only the last four or eight people standing get to say who they are, and they get more time to talk.

5. Don't let people introduce themselves; rather, the host introduces everyone.

6. Inspired by the Washington Post, host an exclusive event and charge a lot of money for access to "those powerful few".

7. Don't worry about it; it will work itself out somehow with something someone suggests on the spot.

links for 2009-07-03

2009-07-03T04:05:52-04:00

Parsing CSV

In this tutorial you will learn how to parse a simple CSV (comma separated values) file. This is the sort of file produced by spreadsheets and other programs when a text-only, portable format is required for exporting data.

(tags: perl csv)
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.

(tags: politics internet media journalism newspapers print the-late-age-of-print)
freefromeditors: Crain's Bill Shea has pointed give-and-take with another journalist

Found this column by Crain's blogger Bill Shea on some Michigan Citizen charges against the Detroit Free Press and its coverage of soon-to-be former Detroit Councilperson Monica Conyers.
The story is one thing, but the comments back and forth between Bill and the subject of his story is also good reading.

(tags: shea,bill conyers,monica journalism newspaper comments this-is-what-newspaper-comments-are-for)
Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

(tags: politics economics journalism newspapers we-need-a-better-press-corps wapo)
Vrijdag 26 juni: Ann Arbor en Detroit

Vandaag stond Ann Arbor op het programma, een charmant universiteitsstadje dat in gotische stijl is opgetrokken. Alweer geïnspireerd door de Engelse universiteiten, natuurlijk. Goed afkijken, is ook een kunst. In Amerika zijn ze trouwens ook dol op de Griekse en Romeinse bouwstijlen. Als ze ergens een zuil kunnen tussen wringen, zullen ze het zeker niet laten. Zelfs moderne gebouwen worden met klassieke zuilen versierd. Bij mij roepen al die zuilen eerder een gevoel van slechte imitatie op.

(tags: michigan annarbor)

Amelanchier (Shadbush, Juneberry, Sugar Plum) inventory for Ann Arbor, 2009

2009-07-03T00:47:55-04:00

Here's a complete list of where all of the Amelanchier (juneberry, shadbush, sugar plum depending on where you are from) trees are on the public streets in Ann Arbor. The complete inventory shows 356 trees, each geocoded; rather than try to pin them on a map, this is by street name in alphabetical order, with quite a bit of duplicates eliminated.

The whole program to do this is

grep -i Amelanchier trees09.csv | awk -F, '{ print $3, "between", $4, "and " $5}' | sort | uniq > juneberry.txt

where the trees09.csv file is downloadable from the Ann Arbor Chronicle who originally sourced this data from the city of Ann Arbor; see their story about it here.

Alas this post is a little bit too late for this season; by July 2, 2009, many of the juneberry trees are completely ripe, so get picking.

ABBOTT AVE between MONTGOMERY AVE and S REVENA BLVD
ALLMENDINGER PARK between ALLMENDINGER PARK and ALLMENDINGER PARK
ANTIETAM DR between CUL DE SAC and LEXINGTON DR
ANTIETAM DR between LEXINGTON DR and CUL DE SAC
ARBANA DR between W HURON ST and MARK HANNAH PL
ARBOR OAKS PARK between ARBOR OAKS PARK and ARBOR OAKS PARK
ARBORDALE ST between W STADIUM BLVD and EVELYN CT
ARDMOOR AVE between CUL DE SAC and MARTHA AVE
ARDMOOR AVE between MARTHA AVE and CUL DE SAC
ASCOT RD between CHAUCER DR and CHAUCER DR
BADER PARK between BADER PARK and BADER PARK
BANDEMER PARK between BANDEMER PARK and BANDEMER PARK
BARDSTOWN TRL between LARCHMONT DR and MIDDLETON DR
BIRD RD between NEWPORT CREEK DR and W HURON RIVER DR
BIRK AVE between PAULINE BLVD and SNYDER AVE
BLAIN CT between CUL DE SAC and SHADOWOOD DR
BRANDYWINE DR between GALLWAY CT and PACKARD RD
BRIAN CT between CUL DE SAC and MEADOWSIDE DR
BRIARCLIFF ST between PRAIRIE ST and AURORA ST
BROOKS ST between MIXTWOOD RD and MILLER AVE
BROOKSIDE PARK between BROOKSIDE PARK and BROOKSIDE PARK
BUHR PARK between BUHR PARK and BUHR PARK
CAMBRIDGE RD between DAY ST and HILL ST
CATHERINE ST between N FOURTH AVE and N FIFTH AVE
CATHERINE ST between N INGALLS ST and GLEN AVE
CHARLES ST between BROOKRIDGE RD and DANIEL ST
CHAUCER DR between SCIO CHURCH RD and WEMBLEY CT
CHERRY ST between SPRING ST and FOUNTAIN ST
COLONY RD between ESSEX RD and PACKARD RD
COLUMBIA AVE between KIMBERLEY RD and DEAD END
CORONADA DR between LAS VEGAS DR and ALHAMBRA DR
CRANBROOK PARK between CRANBROOK PARK and CRANBROOK PARK
CREEKBEND CT between CUL DE SAC and MEADOWSIDE DR
CRESTLAND DR between HALL AVE and CARHART AVE
CUMBERLAND AVE between HAMPSHIRE RD and CANTERBURY RD
DEVONSHIRE RD between ARLINGTON BLVD and AVON RD
DHU VARREN RD between LESLIE PARK CIR and OMLESAAD DR
DHU VARREN RD between PONTIAC TRL and LESLIE PARK CIR
DONEGAL CT between BRANDYWINE DR and CUL DE SAC
DOUGLAS PARK between DOUGLAS PARK and DOUGLAS PARK
DUNDEE DR between DEAD END and MOREHEAD DR
E ANN ST between N STATE ST and N DIVISION ST
E KINGSLEY ST between DETROIT ST and N DIVISION ST
E LIBERTY ST between S DIVISION ST and S FIFTH AVE
EDDY ST between DEAD END and VERLE AVE
ELI DR between YOST BLVD and LILLIAN RD
ELLSWORTH PARK between ELLSWORTH PARK and ELLSWORTH PARK
EMILY CT between CUL DE SAC and MEADOWSIDE DR
ESCH AVE between PAGE AVE and PINE VALLEY BLVD
FALCON CT between HICKORY POINT DR and CUL DE SAC
FARMERS MARKET between FARMERS MARKET and FARMERS MARKET
FERNDALE PL between HENRY ST and GARDNER AVE
FIFTH ST between W DAVIS AVE and W MADISON ST
FIFTH ST between W JEFFERSON ST and W LIBERTY ST
FIFTH ST between W LIBERTY ST and W JEFFERSON ST
FOUNTAIN ST between W SUMMIT ST and SUNSET RD
FOURTH ST between W LIBERTY ST and W JEFFERSON ST
FRANKLIN BLVD between SNYDER AVE and BIRK AVE
FULLER PARK between FULLER PARK and FULLER PARK
FULLER RD between CEDAR BEND DR and MAIDEN LN
FURSTENBURG NATURE AREA between FURSTENBURG NATURE AREA and FURSTENBURG NATURE AREA
GALLUP PARK between GALLUP PARK and GALLUP PARK
GEDDES AVE between OSWEGO ST and ONONDAGA ST
GEDDES AVE between S HURON PKWY and RIVERVIEW DR
GEORGETOWN BLVD between YORKTOWN DR and YORKTOWN DR
GLAZIER WAY between WOLVERHAMPTON LN and HURON PKWY
GLENWOOD ST between DEXTER AVE and VALLEY DR
GOTT ST between PEARL ST and W SUMMIT ST
GOTT ST between W SUMMIT ST and HISCOCK ST
GRACE ST between WESTWOOD AVE and ALICE ST
GREEN RD between WATERSHED DR and FOX HUNT DR
HAISLEY DR between N MAPLE RD and CARBECK DR
HAZELWOOD AVE between CENTRAL AVE and SUNNYWOOD DR
HEMLOCK DR between CHAMPAGNE DR and SHADOWOOD DR
HEMLOCK DR between SHADOWOOD DR and PLAINVIEW CT
HENRY ST between FERNDALE PL and WESTMINSTER PL
HEWETT DR between REDEEMER AVE and RUSSETT RD
HICKORY POINT DR between OTTER CREEK CT and BIRCHWOOD CT
HILL ST between GREENE ST and S DIVISION ST
HILLDALE DR between BREDE PL and DELAFIELD DR
HOLYOKE LN between NEWPORT RD and LOWELL RD
HUNTINGTON PL between ONAWAY PL and HUNTINGTON DR
HURON HIGHLANDS PARK between HURON HIGHLANDS PARK and HURON HIGHLANDS PARK
INDEPENDENCE BLVD between JAMES ST and VICTORIA AVE
IROQUOIS PARK between IROQUOIS PARK and IROQUOIS PARK
JONES DR between PLYMOUTH RD and BROADWAY ST
KELLY PARK between KELLY PARK and KELLY PARK
KEMPF HOUSE between KEMPF HOUSE and KEMPF HOUSE
KIRTLAND DR between GLEN LEVEN RD and W STADIUM BLVD
LAKEVIEW AVE between W LIBERTY RD and DEAD END
LAWTON PARK between LAWTON PARK and LAWTON PARK
LENNOX ST between CUL DE SAC and ARBORDALE ST
LESLIE SCIENCE CENTER between LESLIE SCIENCE CENTER and LESLIE SCIENCE CENTER
LIBERTY PLAZA between LIBERTY PLAZA and LIBERTY PLAZA
LONG SHORE DR between AMHERST AVE and BARTON DR
LORRAINE ST between FERNWOOD AVE and LA SALLE DR
LOYOLA DR between CUL DE SAC and COLGATE CIR
MARSHALL ST between SPRINGBROOK AVE and VERLE AVE
MARY BETH DOYLE PARK between MARY BETH DOYLE PARK and MARY BETH DOYLE PARK
MARYFIELD DR between PINE RIDGE ST and WESTWOOD AVE
MARYFIELD WILDWOOD PARK between MARYFIELD WILDWOOD PARK and MARYFIELD WILDWOOD PARK
MEADOWSIDE DR between WOODCREEK BLVD and WOODCREEK BLVD
MEDFORD RD between MANCHESTER RD and ST FRANCIS DR
MEDFORD RD between NEEDHAM RD and MANCHESTER RD
MELROSE AVE between BELMONT RD and DEVONSHIRE RD
MERSHON DR between DELAWARE DR and SCIO CHURCH RD
MERSHON DR between HANOVER RD and SCIO CHURCH RD
MERSHON DR between HARTFORD ST and HANOVER RD
MERSHON DR between NORMANDY RD and GLEN LEVEN RD
MERSHON DR between SCIO CHURCH RD and DELAWARE DR
MILLER NATURE AREA between MILLER NATURE AREA and MILLER NATURE AREA
MINER ST between W SUMMIT ST and ELMCREST DR
MOREHEAD DR between NEWBURY CT and PICADILLY CIR
MORTON AVE between WOODSIDE RD and HARDING RD
MT PLEASANT AVE between SUNNYSIDE BLVD and W MADISON ST
N FOURTH AVE between E ANN ST and CATHERINE ST
N FOURTH AVE between E KINGSLEY ST and CATHERINE ST
N MAPLE RD between PAMELA AVE and HOLLYWOOD DR
N REVENA BLVD between LINWOOD AVE and HARBROOKE AVE
NOTTINGHAM RD between MANCHESTER RD and INDEPENDENCE BLVD
OLIVIA AVE between CAMBRIDGE RD and MINERVA RD
OLSON PARK between OLSON PARK and OLSON PARK
ORCHARD HILLS DR between CUL DE SAC and EVERGREEN PL
PARKWOOD AVE between JEANNE ST and FERNWOOD AVE
PEAR ST between APPLE ST and TRAVER ST
PILGRIM PARK between PILGRIM PARK and PILGRIM PARK
PLYMOUTH PARKWAY between PLYMOUTH PARKWAY and PLYMOUTH PARKWAY
POMONA RD between RED OAK RD and LOYOLA DR
REDEEMER AVE between HEWETT DR and RUSSELL RD
REDEEMER AVE between RUSSELL RD and RUSSETT RD
REDWOOD PARK between REDWOOD PARK and REDWOOD PARK
RIVERSIDE PARK between RIVERSIDE PARK and RIVERSIDE PARK
RUNNYMEDE BLVD between COVINGTON DR and SUE PKWY
S ASHLEY ST between W WASHINGTON ST and W HURON ST
S DIVISION ST between E WILLIAM ST and E LIBERTY ST
S FOREST AVE between GRANGER AVE and WELLS ST
S FOURTH AVE between E LIBERTY ST and E WASHINGTON ST
S FOURTH AVE between E MADISON ST and PACKARD ST
S FOURTH AVE between E WASHINGTON ST and E LIBERTY ST
S FOURTH AVE between PACKARD ST and E MADISON ST
S MAPLE RD between DICKEN DR and PAULINE BLVD
SCIO CHURCH RD between GREENVIEW DR and S SEVENTH ST
SECOND ST between W MOSLEY ST and W MADISON ST
SENECA AVE between OSWEGO ST and ONONDAGA ST
SEQUOIA PKWY between N MAPLE RD and PATRICIA AVE
SEQUOIA PKWY between PATRICIA AVE and N MAPLE RD
SHADFORD RD between FERDON RD and HARDING RD
SHADFORD RD between PACKARD ST and BALDWIN AVE
SHADFORD RD between WOODSIDE RD and HARDING RD
SHADOWOOD DR between HEMLOCK DR and CHAMPAGNE DR
SIXTH ST between W MADISON ST and W JEFFERSON ST
SOUTHEAST AREA PARK between SOUTHEAST AREA PARK and SOUTHEAST AREA PARK
SPRING HOLLOW CT between CUL DE SAC and FOXWAY DR
SPRINGBROOK AVE between MARSHALL ST and SHARON DR
SUGARBUSH PARK between SUGARBUSH PARK and SUGARBUSH PARK
SYLVAN PARK between SYLVAN PARK and SYLVAN PARK
TACOMA CIR between KING GEORGE BLVD and KING GEORGE BLVD
THOMAS CT between SUSAN DR and THOMAS CT
TREMONT PL between WALDENWOOD DR and CUL DE SAC
TURNBERRY LN between MONUMENT DR and MONUMENT DR
VERLE AVE between DEAD END and EDDY ST
VERLE AVE between EDDY ST and PLATT RD
VERLE AVE between MARSHALL ST and DEAD END
VERLE AVE between MARSHALL ST and MARSHALL ST
VERLE AVE between PLATT RD and MARSHALL ST
VICTORIA AVE between RIDGE AVE and INDEPENDENCE BLVD
VIRNANKAY CIR between PAULINE BLVD and PAULINE BLVD
W DOBSON PL between CUL DE SAC and WOLVERHAMPTON LN
W JEFFERSON ST between SIXTH ST and FIFTH ST
W SUMMIT ST between GOTT ST and MINER ST
W WASHINGTON ST between S MAIN ST and S ASHLEY ST
WALDENWOOD DR between PENBERTON DR and TREMONT PL
WESTOVER AVE between RHEA ST and PORTER AVE
WHITE OAK DR between ENGLISH OAK DR and NEWPORT RD
WOODCREEK BLVD between CHALMERS DR and MEADOWSIDE DR
WOODCREEK BLVD between MEADOWSIDE DR and CHALMERS DR
WOODDALE CT between CUL DE SAC and WOODCREEK BLVD
WOODDALE CT between WOODCREEK BLVD and CUL DE SAC
YELLOWSTONE DR between YELLOWSTONE DR and BLUETT DR

acorn pie

2009-07-03T00:32:38-04:00

Acorn pie, acorn pie,
Everybody wants a piece of
Acorn pie.
from the Acorn Pies weblog

I don't have a recipe just yet.