Yo yo yo, if you’re stopping by from Metro Magazine and this is your first time at The Deets, here are a few links to topics mentioned in the Metro article: – Minneapolis – Yellow Pages – Graffiti – Toilet Paper Folding – Running And Johnny Northside, of course.
The #1 ranked restaurant on Urbanspoon for downtown Vancouver is a hot dog stand called Japadog. This happened to be two blocks from my hotel, so making a stop there was a no-brainer. This place is awesome. I decided to follow Anthony Bordain’s lead and had a terimayo style dog, which is a beef hot [...]
Bob Ingrassia’s new Minnesota blog directory and ranking system, Newsbobber, has received some buzz on Twitter today. This seems like the start of something useful for people interested in finding local bloggers who’re passionate about various topics. One thing that’s cool about the directory is reading Newsbobber’s take on what they perceive each site to [...]
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC TP, originally uploaded by edkohler. On the one hand, this looks rather rushed. On the other hand, I can see the ocean from my room.
Xcel Energy appears to be rolling out new utility boxes in Minneapolis like the ones above. The one problem I have with these is that they’re a blank canvas for taggers. The color choices seems rather ill-conceived for a urban environments. It would be great to see Xcel get a bit more creative with the [...]
35th Street from Powderhorn Park to Lake Calhoun has plenty of running distractions. Heading West, I passed the old Fire Station 17, which is now home to the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association and the Land Stewardship Project. At Chicago, I passed the Pillsbury House Theater where King of Shadows is about to start a run. [...]
Trails.com does a nice job mapping out the various bike friendly trails around the country, including those in Minnesota. This helped me discover more trails than I knew were within an easy drive of Minneapolis. MNTrails.com is another good sources for trail info, although they list fewer trails as of this writing. Registration (and in [...]
Here’s one of the proposed changes to the less than perfect intersection that is Franklin, E River Rd, and 27th Ave SE. Roundabouts: However, based on Becki Iverson’s report at Bridgeland News, this doesn’t seem like a likely outcome. Instead, they’re going to play with the timing of traffic lights.
Idearc Media’s 8-K filing includes some interesting nuggets. Check this out: Generally, it looks like year over year quarterly revenues are decreasing at an increasing rate. It mentions that online is doing better than print, so here’s a look at online: That’s Idearc over on the right of each chart. A year ago, they grew [...]
Some people have hobbies like knitting graffiti or extreme ironing. One of mine is quantifying web design variables. Along these lines, one of my criticisms of the newly launched BringMeTheNews.com website is that it’s hard to read. For my eyes, the contrast in type to background browns is not high enough for comfortable reading. Considering [...]
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