I'm not really sure why this item from the WTC wreckage has been presented to EMU for their park. If the jingoistic neo-conservatives and other war lovers hadn't made the WTC/911 attacks the center-piece of their permanent war strategy people around here probably would feel less jaundiced and cynical about the whole thing.
All it will likely mean to most Eastern Michigan University students and Ypsilantians is that there is now another thing for vandals, creeps, and taggers to spray paint over and for pigeons to roost on.
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Showing posts with label Ypsilanti Michigan. Show all posts
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
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A semi-talented young man who doesn't give a flying fook about getting a college education and who just wants to play football. Follow your bliss Tate, cuz life and youth are both short.
Robert Ettinger, cryonics pioneer dies at 92 and is frozen (Wikipedia)
He hoped to be revived later on. Ettinger wrote The Prospect of Immortality the original manifesto of the cryonics movement in 1962.
Linguists say they can "out" men impersonating women on Twitter (Slashdot)
About 65 percent of the time anyway.
How Los Angeles lost its mojo (New Geography)
"The machine that now controls Los Angeles by default consists of an alliance between labor and the political leadership of the Latino community, the area's largest ethnic population. But since politicians serve at the whim of labor interests, they seldom speak up for homeowners and small businesses."
Business hating environmentalists are the second edge to this double edged dagger.
Ypsilanti has a beer festival (Eastern Echo)
Who knew? I'd have gone if I had.
Detroit Metro-Times has a story about a Detroit area guy who left Motown to go to Hollywood and become a screen writer. Started out well but turned out to be tl:dnf for me.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Weblog -June 10, 2011
Ypsilanti neighborhood degenerating into violence, chaos (Tom Perkins, annarbor.com/)
Sleazy liquor store surrounded by abandoned cars and houses two blocks from public housing. What could go wrong?
Flint-area Goodwill store customer finds full funeral urn for sale on their shelves (David Harris, MLive/Flint Journal)
Sad and funny at the same time, eh?
Disgraced Rep. Wiener won't resign; He needs the paycheck (Chuck Bennett, New York Post)
Likely the first honest thing Wiener has said about himself to date and esp. on this matter.
Senators target Bitcoin currency, citing drug sales (Don Reisinger, Cnet)
Senators Shumer and Manchin just can't stand people being able to spend money that the government can't trace, control or regulate. Can't have that much liberty now can we?
The HK416—The gun that (probably) killed bin-Laden (Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics)
Typical of high-end German engineering. Precise, efficient, perfectly executed and very expensive. Just like their cars.
Iceland's citizens are writing its new constitution online (Clay Dillow, Popular Science)
It will be interesting to see how this works out. However Iceland has some distinct advantages. No racial/ethnic or religious minorities. A single homogenous group will likely work out better assuming this can be done at all. All previous attempts at constitution drafting have been done by constituent assemblies, well connected local elites or imposed by a foreign power.
Outgoing US SecDef castigates NATO countries for not pulling their weight in global security ops (Matt Welch, Reason)
Bottom line: "It might be worth beginning to consider whether intervening in far-flung civil wars really qualifies as 'defense'." Indeed.
Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism (John Timmer, Ars Technica)
"Overall, the new studies strengthen the argument that autism is primarily a genetic disorder, and help explain why it has been so hard to identify the genes: most mutations are rare or completely unique to the affected individuals."
Sleazy liquor store surrounded by abandoned cars and houses two blocks from public housing. What could go wrong?
Flint-area Goodwill store customer finds full funeral urn for sale on their shelves (David Harris, MLive/Flint Journal)
Sad and funny at the same time, eh?
Disgraced Rep. Wiener won't resign; He needs the paycheck (Chuck Bennett, New York Post)
Likely the first honest thing Wiener has said about himself to date and esp. on this matter.
Senators target Bitcoin currency, citing drug sales (Don Reisinger, Cnet)
Senators Shumer and Manchin just can't stand people being able to spend money that the government can't trace, control or regulate. Can't have that much liberty now can we?
The HK416—The gun that (probably) killed bin-Laden (Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics)
Typical of high-end German engineering. Precise, efficient, perfectly executed and very expensive. Just like their cars.
Iceland's citizens are writing its new constitution online (Clay Dillow, Popular Science)
It will be interesting to see how this works out. However Iceland has some distinct advantages. No racial/ethnic or religious minorities. A single homogenous group will likely work out better assuming this can be done at all. All previous attempts at constitution drafting have been done by constituent assemblies, well connected local elites or imposed by a foreign power.
Outgoing US SecDef castigates NATO countries for not pulling their weight in global security ops (Matt Welch, Reason)
Bottom line: "It might be worth beginning to consider whether intervening in far-flung civil wars really qualifies as 'defense'." Indeed.
Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism (John Timmer, Ars Technica)
"Overall, the new studies strengthen the argument that autism is primarily a genetic disorder, and help explain why it has been so hard to identify the genes: most mutations are rare or completely unique to the affected individuals."
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