links for 2007-09-11

• roflcopter.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x800 pixels) - Scaled (73%)
  In Soviet Russia, the Roflcopter laughs at you.
  (tags: roflcopter)
• FTW: "What is 'FTW'? What Does It Mean?"
  FTW is "For the Win", an Internet expression of enthusiasiam.
  (tags: ftw what-will-kids-think-up-next)
• Urban Dictionary: roflcopter
  The word is derived from a unit in Warcraft III, the gyrocopter (flying machine). Your immediate response when someone masses gyros (to be funny, ruin the game, mess around or whatever) is to rofl for ten straight minutes until the copters of doom and des
  (tags: culture internet roflcopter gamers)
• Airport Delays RSS Feed
  RSS feed of airport delays.
  (tags: airport airplane travel delay rss feed dtw)
• Pfizer confirms third breach involving employee data since June
  The company today confirmed that as many as 34,000 of its employees may be at risk of identity theft after a former employee illegally accessed and download copies of confidential information from a Pfizer computer system without the company's knowledge.
  (tags: pfizer pfired infosec via:richard-stiennon)
• READER REACTION: 'Lloyd Carr must be gone'
  . After the embarrassing loss last week and the dismal performance in the first half of this week's game against Oregon, it is imperative that you relieve Bill Martin and Lloyd Carr of their duties immediately. Last week, Lloyd Carr admitted that his team
  (tags: umempLLOYD lloyd-carr michigan football)
• THE BOGSAT METHOD - New York Times
  Helene von Damm's description of how Ronald Reagan formed his Cabinet read like a Doonesbury comic strip (''Out of the Kitchen, Into the Cabinet,'' Nov. 27). In my headhunter days, we called it the Bogsat method - a Bunch of Guys Seated Around a Table, pe
  (tags: bogsat)
• Golf course options examined - mlive.com
  The first meeting will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at Leslie Park Golf Course. The second meeting will be 7 p.m. Thursday at Cobblestone Farm regarding Huron Hills Golf Course.
  (tags: annarbor michigan golf leslie-park leslie-park-golf-course cobblestone-farm huron-hills-golf-course)
• Inside Facebook » Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO
  Like companies dependent on their SEO’d Google PageRank, companies dependent on their NFO’d Facebook FeedRank will experience similar trauma when the algorithm unpredictably or inexplicably changes.
  (tags: f8 facebook marketing networks sem seo social nfo ufo i-has-a-feed you-need-a-thneed)
• PocketModMac: MacOSX PocketMod Generator Via Print Dialog in Disruptive Library Technology Jester
  "print as pocketmod" option for Mac print dialog
  (tags: gtd mac origami osx pocketmod print printing productivity pdf nup 8up)
• TellzAll | Ohio Kids | Milk Delivery Truck
  The Divco company of Detroit, Michigan, began production of specialized dairy-delivery trucks in 1925. Their line of dairy-delivery trucks evolved into a very efficient vehicle. Refrigeration replaced ice for keeping products cool, and special controls al
  (tags: divco milk milk-delivery calder-dairy michigan ohio)
• OneHouse LLC - Pho
  Pho is Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, of course. It's apparently pronounced "FA." I started eating it when I lived in Washington, D.C., at a place called Pho 75 in Rosslyn. When John Parres and I found a Pho kitchen in Los Angeles, we agreed to eat there ev
  (tags: art books brunch digital media movies music pho technology a2b3)
• Onward and Upward with the Arts: ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS AT THE OPRY: The New Yorker
  ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier this year, the Grand Ole Opry moved from Ryman Auditorium (where it had moved to in 1941) to Opryland U.S.A. Writer tells about the final Ryman performance. Ryman wa
  (tags: grand-old-opry garrison-keillor via:kottke)
• RECONNECT - Drop-off recycling for used electronics and computers
  Participating Goodwills - Michigan. None in Washtenaw County.
  (tags: michigan computer recycling via:revgeorge)

Comments

[Spencer]

You can take recent vintage computers and monitors (up to 5 years old) to the Reuse Center in Ann Arbor. After that, you can pay to have them recycled at the drop off station on Ellsworth at Platt. I note that Kiwanis now has a sign up "temporarily not accepting computer monitors". I imagine they have a glut as we all switch to LCD monitors (good for the environment, but then getting rid of all that leaded glass could be an environmental disaster if it's not done sensitively.)

Related, coming up:

Washtenaw County Clean-Up Day
The Washtenaw County Solid Waste Program will be holding a regional environmental clean-up day on Saturday, September 29, for Washtenaw County residents, at Calvary Bible Church at 8318 Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti. Call (734) 222-3827 or click here (http://www.recycleannarbor.org/pdfs/county_clean-up_sept07.pdf) for details. One detail:

"Residents can bring 1 of the following items for free: television, washer, dryer, Freon containing appliance or computer."