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The Google Earth Blog notes that Detroit has finally gone 3D in Google Earth.The virtual model of the Motor City features hundreds of buildings, including all of the skyscrapers, stadiums and landmarks (except as they note, the Fist).
Check out this cool YouTube preview:
Get Google Earth right here and check out Google Earth Blog for tons [...]
It Must be Maker Faire time!
by Erik Charlton
In Maker Faire Detroit 2010, Dale Dougherty of Make Magazine announces the first-ever Maker Faire Detroit, July 31-August 1, 2010 at The Henry Ford Museum :
Last summer, after our Maker Faire in the Bay Area, I had a couple of speaking engagements in the Detroit area. One was at [...]
MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo has surpassed his predecessor Jud Heathcote with 341 wins for the school record of all time wins following a 106 to 68 trouncing of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After having had served as the assistant head coach under Jud, Izoo was named head coach after his retirement following [...]
model T, by artsy T by artsy_T
Our battered Michigan auto industry still has a trick or two up its sleeve. A couple of weeks ago, Michigan Radio had a feature on inflatable rear seat belts that will be offered as an option on next year's Ford Explorer. Seat belts have saved an estimated 170,000 lives [...]
In Voracious Asian carp poised to upset Great Lakes, theChicago Tribune reports:
Conservationists and government biologists, stunned by new indications of the advance of Asian carp toward Lake Michigan, are trading ideas for poisoning Chicago-area rivers, conducting emergency electrofishing or chemically neutering the wily fish.
On Friday, sophisticated genetic testing near Chicago found evidence of the carp [...]
"I am standing awkwardly by caterpillars
Over half of all Michigan's public university graduates leave the state within one year of graduation. Michigan Radio Intern Lauren Silverman will probably be one of them. Lauren has launched a new series for Michigan Radio called Generation Y Michigan that explores why young adults in Generation Y are or [...]
Michigan By the Bottle has a great report on last weekend's Grand Rapids International Wine Festival which featured over 100 Michigan wines for tasting (and I'm not just saying that because the interviewed me):
Grand Rapids International Wine Festival by farlane
Shannon writes:
From my perspective, the show was a huge success. We had a blast tasting not [...]
Abandoned Pontiac Silverdome by Derek Farr
The Detroit News reports that the long-shuttered Pontiac Silverdome has been sold for a mere $583,000 as the home for a soccer league. However, with a cost over $55 million to construct:
"This was a giveaway," said David J. Leitch, a broker with an Auburn Hills based realty firm.
"The property alone, [...]
Scoreboard by mollyali
The Game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes starts at noon on Saturday, November 21, 2009. It doesn't have quite as much on the line, but it's always a big one. Read on for the our massive post on history of this rivalry with tons of links to historical and [...]
Today is Veterans Day, commemorating the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month when Germany signed the Armistice Agreement ending World War I. You can read more about Veteran's Day on Absolute Michigan and also on Michigan in Pictures.
Life Magazine has a feature titled WWII: How Detroit Won The War that provides [...]
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