Matt Hampel | matth.org

• The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform
  permanent, cross-sectional, faculty-led societies that provide the advantages of a small college in the environment of a large university.
  (tags: community college rcidea residentialcollege)
• U-M AEC Project Information
  The following are a few of the major construction and renovations projects currently underway.
  (tags: umich architecture webcam construction)

• Murder Mystery On Train Not So Fun In Real Life | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  TOMAH, WI—An ongoing murder investigation aboard a cross-country Amtrak passenger train has not been the thrilling, suspense-filled journey of intrigue and ingenious subterfuge that was initially anticipated, travelers said Monday.
  (tags: trains travel MURDER)

• Restore iPhoto Library Using iPhoto Extractor
  To get iPhoto to rebuild itself, you quit iPhoto, then launch it while holding down the “option” and “command” keys (for iPhoto 5).
  (tags: iphoto fix repair apple trouble)
• Hruminations
  location is in a bike and pedestrian unfriendly location at the periphery of town
  (tags: zipcar cars driving annarbor)

• Michael Shanks – Archaeologist: Manifesto
  Archaeology is THE discipline of things – the history of design, innovation, creativity, how people get on with the material world, materiality itself.
  (tags: archive archaeology stanford shl)
• Biomass for biofuel isn’t worth it
  The government spends more than $3 billion a year to subsidize ethanol production when it does not provide a net energy balance or gain
  (tags: economics green politics sustainability fuel)

WEMU host Michael G. Nastos retired from station this evening after nearly 30 years. An explanation will appear in Saturday’s Ann Arbor News, he says. No further explanation was printed, so either the News left out information or I misheard.

I grew up with Michael G. Nastos and WEMU Jazz, nearly every day since I was conscious. It makes his departure particularly saddening for me. If anyone knows more, I’d be interested to hear.

• Park Foundation
  The Park Foundation funds PBS’ Frontline
  (tags: pbs funding follow-the-money foundation frontline)
• JEHT Foundation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The JEHT foundation funded a program about privacy on PBS’s Frontline.
  (tags: pbs funding follow-the-money foundation frontline)
• Palliative care – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms, rather than providing a cure. The JEHT foundation, which funded a program on PBS’ Frontline focused on internal espionage in the US, a
  (tags: follow-the-money follow-the-ideas foundation jeht pbs frontline)
• http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5267&category=79
  JEHT takes money from donors who specify the precise groups and causes for which they want it earmarked, and in turn funnels the cash to those recipients; this arrangement enables the donors to avoid being publicly associated with the groups being funded,
  (tags: pbs frontline follow-the-money follow-the-ideas foundation JEHT)
• David Horowitz Freedom Center – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The David Horowitz Freedom Center is a conservative foundation. The DHFC runs DiscoverTheNetworks, which wrote the accusatory analysis of the JEHT Foundation. The JEHT foundation helped channel funds, allegedly targeted by an anonymous donor, to a PBS Fro
  (tags: pbs frontline jeht follow-the-ideas follow-the-money conservative)
• America by Vespa
  (tags: america vespa deutsch via:vj via:bkerr)
• Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less – New York Times
  (tags: recipie via:rcackerman)
• AW Artifacts – ArborWiki
  Want business cards
  (tags: want arborwiki artifacts)
• My Sister’s Knits – Come for yarn, leave with a friend
  (tags: @rcackerman knitting chicago)
• Redheads at Improv Everywhere
  “You want lies with that?”
  (tags: wendys prostest red @rcackerman)

I’m pushing a page called “What I’m reading“; it’s a list of just that, along with my past and upcoming lists.

Better organization is coming soon. I enjoy making incremental changes. Perhaps other people have similar pages, and no doubt there’s a web2.0 service that handles this. I’m not familiar with them, though. Can you enlighten me?

All interested editors of ArborWiki are invited to the Summer Work Party this coming Thursday, the 26th, at 9pm. We’re meeting at the Ann Arbor outlet of Primo Coffee for a couple of hours to hack away at MediaWiki.

There are a couple specific code parts that I hope to attack, namely:

• The upcoming server change and partnership that — after about a year — is finally ready to happen.
• Forcing search to actually search everything. It doesn’t do talk pages, I don’t think, and certainly not categories.
• Providing a new syntax for mapping
• I will also bring along some of my extra schmaltz for community use.

We will also be discussing how AW can neatly be extended to neighboring communities, especially Ypsilanti.

I feel compelled to write a post about HP7, mostly because it occupied an unfortunately large part of my day, but also because its HP7 and readers are morally obliged to vent.

The first books in the series were lots of fun, so it’s disappointing that the comforting stories about a BIG CASTLE with ADVENTURES and MAGIC and DELICIOUS FOOD have somehow mutated into an alternate-reality British political thriller about genocide. What? I want castles! Magic! Food!

Also, the amount of schmaltz contained in the epilogue was more than enough to cook my dinner, and I still have some left for tomorrow.

• Advance Publications – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Booth Newspapers of Michigan
  (tags: media-monopoly michigan annarbor booth annarbornews advance newhouse)