University of Michigan
UM site for Ann Arbor visitors
UM Museum of Art (great venue and great art)
Hathi Trust Digital Library (zillions of scanned out-of-print books)
Michigan Theatre (great old independent movie house)
Performance
Network (
Purple Rose
Theatre (just next door in
The Ark (Local folk/blues/etc. music venue)
Overheard in A2 (Students say the darndest things …)
Café Zola (our
favorite restaurant in
Zingerman’s (foodie heaven)
Ann Arbor is Overrated (a dissenting view)
Gerald Ford Presidential Library
History of Ann Arbor (from the Ann Arbor District Library)
Concentrate (local economic development news)
Ann Arbor Chronicle (on-line local newspaper)
Kempf House Museum (musical history in Ann Arbor)
The Ann (new local paper / website)
Motte and Bailey Books (our favorite used bookstore)\
A2 Modern (modern architecture in Ann Arbor)
Biercamp (artisinal sausage ... yum)
Satchel's (barbeque ... yum)
Reynolds Farley’s Detroit History Page
Detroit Metro Restaurant Ratings
Health and Safety
Reason Magazine (where I was a summer intern in college)
Mark Steyn (sort of the P.J. O’Rourke of
The Memory Hole (Like the Smoking Gun, but serious)
Vice Squad (Blog about vice – a mix of law, economics and politics)
Reason papers (Academic journal filled with libertarian fun!)
Archive of Libertarian Review from the 70s and 80s (at CATO)
Kosmos Online (from the Institute for Humane Studies)
Politics and Policy: Weblogs
Instapundit (Is it possible to like a lawyer?)
Virginia Postrel (former reason editor who writes about fun stuff like design and glamour)
Wonkette (learn all the juicy gossip and become a beltway insider!)
Fly Bottle (Eclectic blog)
The Agitator (personal blog of Radley Balko, now at Reason)
James Lilek’s Bleat
(good stuff and pop culture too!)
Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor (where I worked in high school)
Roger Baker’s history of Farrell’s
Art and architecture
Artchive (Lots and lots of art)
Design Museum (
Museum of Bad Art (Wonderful stuff)
Tate
Modern (
Galinsky (Only if you like modern architecture)
Brick Structures (Create famous buildings with Legos)
Quisp (my favorite cereal when I was little)
What the Heck? (includes bizarre ebay offerings)
TV ads for presidential candidates (from 1952 to 2004 – very cool!)
Manolo’s Shoe Blog (For those who love the shoes)
Viceland (Vice magazine – trendy stuff but not for the fainthearted)
Despair (Great posters)
Kristy McNichol (My heartthrob when I was about 12)
Science Fiction Museum
(In
Traffic Cone Preservation Society (All of our culture is worth preserving …)
Paul Lynde (He was in the center square on Hollywood Squares before Whoopi!)
The Awful German Language (By Mark Twain)
Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal (a famous computer science article)
Post Secret (Do you have a secret that you want to share?)
Pop versus Soda (Which word works where?)
Two Chinese Boys (Boy bands and licensed merchandise conquer the world)
Ebaum’s World (Humorous fun)
Need a Maze? (This site is a-mazing!)
American Dialect Society – Word of the Year Page
Your Remember That (video clips from the past)
MTV Music (lots of free music videos)
Retrojunk (old video clips and the like)
27b/6 (very funny indeed!)
Manka Brothers (movie studio parody)
People of Walmart (a bit mean and surely classist, but still oddly compelling)
Experience Project (truth is different than fiction)
Big Think (people thinking big thoughts)
Airport Carpets reveal their hidden knowledge
Adoption
Academia
Weblogs by Friends
Nina Turns 40 (Life blog by an old friend)
Books
Bookslut (Fun reviews)
AbeBooks (Great source for used books)
Penguin Classics (Improve your mind)
Daedalus Books (Crack for bibliophiles)
Mencken
Mencken Society (Few writers make for more enjoyable reading than Mencken)
Uncle Bonsai (the folk group I have followed since college – great fun and Ashley is so cute)
Doctor Demento (another amusement of my wasted youth)
Laurie Anderson (way weird but way fun)
Civil War Resources (Includes scans of Harper's magazine from the era)
Artificial Owl (Modern ruins)
Opacity (Urban ruins)
Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
Food
Spiked Online (Lovely, just lovely)
Wargames (one of the hobbies of my wasted youth)
Multiman Publishing (
Strategy Page (what Jim Dunnigan does now that he is not a game designer)
Greg Costikyan
(another old
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed (blog from the author of the book of the same name)
FlyerTalk (frequent flyer and travel discussion boards)
Charity Navigator (rates charities)