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Mae's, Pleasant Ridge, MI - Revisited [DTW]
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- Jack Freeman May 24, 2011 08:10 PM
I'm either extremely picky or there are truly very few excellent breakfast spots in Metro Detroit. I stopped by Mae's for the third time and again....eh. I love that the place is retro and fun, the fact that they rely heavily on local ingredients is a definite plus, I would love to give it a great review but I just cannot.
The concept is excellent, the location great, the owners super nice and the menu is inspired and sounds like it will be fantastic. The problem: everything comes up just short of excellent. The omelets are not seasoned well, the pancakes don't have a lot of flavor (a little vanilla, cinammon or nutmeg would cure that) and the bread and baked goods are fine but nothing spectacular. I love that they make their own jam, which is great, if it were really jam. It's fruit and sugar, there is obviously no pectin in the jam and ends up being soggy and too wet.
I have mentioned this before, I know my wife and I perhaps more critical than the average diner ..but I have found that to be true of many Chowhounders. Am I alone here? I know they are getting a lot of attention and feel horrible that once again I am left wanting after trying a place that is supposed to be fantastic.
I'm thinking maybe we should just stay home and make our own breakfast. We do have a few go to spots that are always pretty good. Breakfast Club (Farmington location) and Chocolate Gallery have never let us down. Any other suggestions?
I've heard that Toast is good, but I haven't been there myself. Then again, the only real recommendation I can make for breakfast is Frittata in Clawson, unless you're just wanting eggs, bacon, hash browns, and toast.
What can I say? I guess I'm just not a big breakfast guy.
I agree with your other favs. Boagman's recommendations are also good. I prefer Fly Trap to Toast ... and will add that we like Recipe's (Troy), Rendezous (FH) and LA Cafe (Waterford).
WRT to Mae's; I have not yet visited. I did visit the same location when it was Anna's, and
found the breakfast to be below average.
Fly Trap Restaurant
22950 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 48220
Just as good as Breakfast Club but with more seating is Uptown Grille on Maple between M5 and Haggerty. They don't have as many super sweet items like stuffed French Toast etc, but they do have a crab/avocado omlette similar to BC. Last time I was there for breakfast I had a savory crepe and I would order it again.
re: Wooderson
I thought they only did Sunday brunch.
re: Fibber McGee
You may be right, I usually go after my Sunday morning soccer game and never gave it a second thought. They do list their hours as
6am to 2am M-F
8am to 2am S-S
Ok, I just confirmed on their website, they do serve breakfast 7 days a week:
re: Wooderson
That's good to know. I'd like a breakfast option that's more than just the coney places or Breakfast Club and Gest. Next time my family wants to head to Siegel's, I'll mention it.
re: Fibber McGee
Recipes at Grand River and Haggerty isn't bad either. Moe's on 10 (10 and Haggerty) is slightly better than a Coney Island for breakfast.
re: Wooderson
I do like Recipes, but have only had lunch there. I did like it for breakfast when it was Amy's.
I find the atmosphere in Mae's to be very cosmopolitan which is part of the resto theatre. You can also get the prime counter seats in front of la plancha and watch Charles make the play unfold as the orders come in and the communication and prep. Betty Ross II in Madison Heights has a similar lurking perch. I find the breakfast food at Mae's to be satisfying and fulfilling if not inspiring. Having a meaningful conversation about a NYT article that both you and the Gay/Lesbian counter mate both read this morning adds a little spice to your life, Mae's is the place. BTW, the owner is a freak for NYT crossword puzzles so you can slip her one (or 10) the next time you go. Damn good coffee too. I give the lunch sandwiches a pass. Try the biscuits and gravy with two poached eggs. You won't need to eat again until bedtime.
re: goatgolfer
I truly have nothing against Mae's, the owners are very nice people and as I mentioned I really like the feel of the place. The guests are definitely an eclectic crowd, which is fantastic! We have been a total of three times and on our second visit I ordered the biscuits and gravy, the poached eggs were overcooked. It's a food issue with me..otherwise I really like the place. I agree, the coffee is very good. I simply wish they would take that one more step that would make their food excellent! Thanks for the breakfast suggestions!
re: Jack Freeman
I was totally agreeing with you and just adding another colorful element to the experience. You were spot on and I was giving a backstage appreciation of your encounter. That's what's cool about CH. I get fun out of interaction with a Sunday morning eclectic crowd and the food is pretty good and the atmosphere is cooooool,.
re: Jack Freeman
Hey Jack,
I have a similar issue with a restaurant a few blocks away. I love the location (obvioulsy) and the feel of place, but not the food.
When we moved into our house, we were blessed that we could walk to "The Fonte", the Fonte de Amore, for authentic Italian food and superior service. (And being able to walk to dinner allowed me to briefy pretend I lived in Manhattan. * if only *)
The Fonte broke my heart and went out of business. I had hope again when the restaurant across the street, DePalma's, burned down and Guilo's Cucina Italiana opened. Sadly, they too only to need to take one more step to make their food excellent, but they just don't do it.
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Couldn't agree more with the Breakfast Club recommendations.
Some other suggestions:
Russell Street Deli at Eastern Market is my ultimate breakfast favorite. I had an amazing veggie omelette with swiss chard and cremini mushrooms there last Saturday, fresh squeezed OJ and cherry walnut toast from Avalon Bakery. My husband loves the corned beef hash. He has no interest in Eastern Market, but is happy to join me any time as long as we stop at Russell Street for breakfast. Order the organic eggs for an extra buck if they're available, so worth it.
If you're feeling adventerous when you're done, there is usually a mushroom guy in the southernmost shed. Last week we bought Morels, black garlic, fiddleheads and ramps. The mushroom guy tried to talk me into truffles, but I told him I had to have something to look forward to in my old age. : )
Another favorite Saturday routine is yoga at the Yoga Shelter in Royal Oak followed by breakfast at Cafe Muse. Try the orange rum raisin pancakes or any of the egg dishes with fingerling potatoes.
In West Bloomfield on Orchard Lake north of Maple, Zoe's House of Pancakes has a wide variety of pancakes - I particulary enjoy the pumpkin. I haven't tried them, but when the eggs and skillets go by, they look great too.
Finally, you can't fail with a farmer's omelette at any of the Senate Coney locations. They're fast, cheap and a tad bit greasy. Perfect for a Sunday morning.
Russell Street Deli
2465 Russell St, Detroit, MI 48207
Cafe Muse
418 S Washington Ave, Royal Oak, MI 48067
re: Rosedale
> Zoe's House of Pancakes
I concur. Their pancakes are tasty enough that I can enjoy them without butter or syrup ... and
their skillets are indeed tasty.
On Sunday mornings, if you arrive after 9AM, be prepared for a 15-20 minute wait. It's also quite noisy.
re: rainsux
15-20 minutes? Not bad at all compared to some places for breakfast. I've been wondering about Zoe's. Definitely sounds good and worth trying.
re: DiningintheD
DiningintheD...love your show! We have not been to Weekday Cafe or Recipes yet but plan on visiting both very soon. Glad you guys found a new home on the local PBS station! We look forward to watching all the new episodes!
Jack, we feel the same. Totally underwhelmed by the food at Mae's despite our real interest in it. Actually one of the worst breakfasts I've had -- egg MacMuffin was better than their egg sandwich. And way too $$. Wanted to love it, but can't. Love the Fly Trap but even better is Deli Unique at the Kinglsey (now Radisson Kingsley) Inn at Long Lake and Woodward. Best corned beef hash I've ever had, including my own. Turkey hash is also great. Everything done perfectly, seasoned staff and no rush to turn over tables. Never disappoints and is always a treat.
Deli Unique
39495 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Fly Trap Restaurant
22950 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 48220
re: berkleybabe
Thanks, bb! We have been to Fly Trap and we do like it very much. My wife is in love with their gingerbread waffles. I'm more of a savory fan but the few bites I nabbed were very good. We've never tried Deli Unique but we will definitely give it a shot. I love corned beef hash, looking forward to trying it!
Deli Unique
39495 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Fly Trap Restaurant
22950 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 48220
re: Jack Freeman
Went to Mae's with the g-f yesterday morning.
Location: 50 yards south of 696 on woodward, ont he east side of the road. Itty-bitty, hard to find, but interesting location. The place has tons of character. Lots of vintage detroit items. Ample parking
Service: Excellent. Quick, personable, fun. Good music coming from someone's ipod.
Food: I wanted to like it. I really did. Alas, I really didn't. Two smoothies: Mixed Berry and the nutter butter. Mixed berry was ok. Not very smoothy-esque though. More like just.. berry juice. My Nutter Butter was plain gross. I think he forgot the banana or something, but it wasn't very good. I ordered the aebelskievers, and my g-f had the hillbilly. The menu is available online for anybody interested.
My Abelelskeievers were five doughy, deep-fried spherical balls with a syrupy raspberry sauce on it. The first one was good. Each successive one was an act in carb, sugar, grease overload. I really couldn't eat more than two. However, this is coming from somebody who can't finish a slice of cheesecake or creme brulee by himself. The bacon that came with it was decent. thick-sliced, slightly sugar cured. meaty without being too salty.
The Hillbilly was a biscuit + chickenfriedsteak + sausage gravy + Cheddar cheese + hot sauce + poached egg. Biscuit. Not your normal crumbly moist, stick to your ribs biscuit. It was doughy and chewy. Personal preference, I like the former. Chicken fried steak patty was decent. Crunchy with some good flavors and moist. Way too salty though, in my tastes. Sausage gravy was ok. The poached egg... wasn't poached. They were just hard boiled eggs.
Maybe my expectations were too high, but I left the restaurant kinda disappointed. Looking back, the food was decent (except for the smoothies). But everything was just TOO much, and not in a good way. I'd probably give it another whirl, but would not be my first choice for breakfast, esp with so many other excellent options in the area.
re: donbui82
Sounds like nothing has changed at Mae's over the past year. It was just about a year ago that I went, for the first and only time.
Thought the exact same as donbui82 about the aebelskievers--too greasy, too overwhelming. It's billed as a "pancake", which makes one think things like "grilled", "fluffy", "soft". No, this was like a donut hole that sat in a vat of oil before being served. My plate had a little dribble of whipped cream, where they had reached the bottom of their aerosol can of it, then ran out. They didn't even bother to clean off the dribble. They just served it, and said "we're out of whipped cream." Funny that a breakfast place would be out of whipped cream at 8:00 a.m.--they obviously weren't keeping tabs on their inventory/supplies.
Bacon was cooked burnt on one end, raw on the other.
Cappucino was FLAT without any foam. I was told that the "machine wasn't working properly", but was not even asked if I wanted a different drink.
Just seemed like they didn't know how to run a restaurant or serve customers... I thought it might've been growing pains, since they had recently opened. But it doesn't sound like much has improved over the past year. Too bad.
re: jjspw
I have to say I am somewhat relieved. I thought I was the only person that was disappointed in Mae's. Several of my friends/family rave about the place and I keep going back thinking it's got to get better. It's certainly an ok place, the atmosphere and retro vibe go a long way but it's really difficult to understand why the food is consistently...um...um...blah? Not sure what is going on with the lack of seasoning in any egg dish but then the overseasoning in other things. The last time I met friends there I decided to eat before I went..haha. I had the same Nutter Butter, mentioned above, and I couldn't finish it. What a gross smoothie. Anyway..the fun factor must be the reason this place is still in business. The people watching is excellent, the coffee is good and the toast is fine. No doubt I will be dragged back there again by another friend who "just loves that place".
re: NomNomNomNom
No, Nom, you're not the only one. As much as we wished we'd liked the place we won't be back. Food was beyond mediocre. Nice for coffee/tea and cool atmosphere. But otherwise, they need to step up their food, way too much $ for lame breakfasts. Looks can only get you so far.

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Clarke was a Staff Accountant for Clarke, Bradley, Wicks and Baker from 1979 to 1983. He has been a Certified Public Accountant for the same firm since then. He has also worked as Partner for Clarke, Bradley, Wicks and Baker from 1983 to the present.
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Clarke was a member of the Washington County Board of Education from 1987 to 1991. He has also been a member of the Washington County Republican Executive Committee from 1992 to the present. He joined the Mississippi State Senate in 2003 and has served in that position since. He represents the 22nd district.
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Largest city of Gujarat has as much as 8 traffic policemen on traffic signals and still 50 % of the traffic flows in wrong direction in wrong lanes. , when asked u check belts, helmets why not wrongs, answer, we are acting as per instructions . is ther any other city where so mush traffic flows in wrong direction ?
what would happen if pedal riksha owners are appointed transport commissioners ?
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The people of Gujarat are peaceful but they are also worst offenders of traffic rules and regulations.Answered by mandook, 01 Jul '12 08:33 am
I had no ideaAnswered by anil garg, 30 Jun '12 11:40 pm
seems a serious problem
seems a serious problem
Its not only in Gujrat, d same position is every where in India n I think we r d main culprits for not obeying d traffic rulesAnswered by vedprakash sharma, 30 Jun '12 11:11 pm
What does our home minister say ?Answered by Mrinalendra Banerjee, 30 Jun '12 09:03 pm
Let every politician answer this question in right earnest...!Answered by Dil Se, 30 Jun '12 08:55 pm
We yet to follow traffic rulesAnswered by jameel ahmed, 30 Jun '12 08:55 pm
This question should be put to the BJP Govt. which has been responsible for economic development of the sate.Answered by Damodar Biswal, 30 Jun '12 08:50 pm


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Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion
A group of web preservationists called the Archive Team is trying to save most of Geocities for the ages before Yahoo! erases the beloved old-school web-hosting service from the face of the internet. In honor of the dearly departing web host, we'll continue in a more suitable format: Welcome to my Geocities story!!! …
Loving the article style
Also, I agree, it is good someone is making an effort to save this monument to Web 0.2... For all its rather obvious failings, there is something about it that is actually more appealing than all these 'Web 2.0' sites like Failbook and Shitter. Probably nostalgia of a time on the internet which is now gone, around the time I started using it, I remember making a fair few Geocities style pages, although I am proud I never did anything really stupid, like text and background colours that are almost impossible to tell apart..
Oh that took me right back. Well done.
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Anyone asked Yahoo?
People should just ask yahoo to make a tar.gz file and send it to internet archive, or post it on the pirate bay...
It should be kept somewhere, even though most content is junk... it's a big part of history now...
That was like flashbacks from some freaky acid trip. I remember fledgling geocities web pages back in the day. Even then I thought most of them were hideous. Full points though for bringing back mr. peabody and the wayback machine.
My Geocities....
some people have collect plethora of images. How about Hon Saddam Body, it was blue & mostly wrapped in Sail cloth. Above killed over 1,000 people in World Wide Riots. So Go figure.
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Netscape icon
It makes be feel a bit sad looking at that Netscape icon and realising that Microsoft killed them. Netscape was a true pioneer and had so much potential, but I guess we have Google who fulfilled the great internet vision that Netscape failed to do.
Good effort
That's a good effort to replicate the old style, but it would have been much more authentic if you changed the background :)
It has already been archived!!!!
These guy's are wasting their time.
Look for your fav geocities complete with a time line, here ... http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Efficiency and history
This might have been a great loss, but fortunately MySpace has used Web 2.0 technologies to greatly improve the speed at which visually appalling web pages may be created.
More seriously, I do think Geocities is worth some preservation effort as one of the more accessible hosting providers that encouraged the DIY Internet. More than once I have directed people to Notepad and Geocities as a zero cost pathway to the world of web, especially for folk who have information worth sharing.
Poor Emulation
only 3/10 for the Geoshitties impersonation.
After all, for it to be accurate, clicking the story title should bring up nothing but a "geocities page not found".
Gotta wonder how many 404's they've archived.
Probably the only thing worth archiving (aside from personal email & the RFCs, et ali) from the first 30 years of (D)ARPANET wasn't actually run over NCP (later TCP/IP), but rather over UUCP. I'm talking Usenet, the place where we built the tool now know as "The Internet". If I was prone to histrionics, I'd have cried when I heard google bought DejaNews ...
The latecomer WWW was always, and always will be, ephemeral at best. Archiving random personal cob-web pages is a fool's errand ... too much noise, not enough signal
But whatever floats their boats. More power to them.
(Before you say it, yes, I know, modern Usenet has the same problem as the Web. The time frame I'm discussing for Usenet is roughly 1980 to 1995.)
Ah the netscape icon
I've missed it.
*nostalgia glasses on*
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Very well done
That was a wonderfully presented article and it certainly brought back memories of my early days on the web. The funny thing is that I felt that I could 'trust' web content then, whereas nowadays it's all slick corporations pumping out brain bilge and half a ton of bandwidth eating bullshit
Note: I think that fluffy kittens are brain bilge but at least you could see them coming at you from a distance.
But only *one* web-ring?!?
Thanks for the laughs - nice satire :)
However, I don't get the whole nostalgia bit that some people have for Geocities. Geocities was *always* shallow and stupid, just canned plastic stuff with everyone trying to look like everyone else using the same tools and techniques and widgets etc., the same (in a different way) as a lot of today's idiotic fads are. Maybe if a person is under 30 or something, Geocities might be nostalgic, but for the rest of us, Geocities was just another stupid new fad and it *always* sucked. Same as things from other eras such as pet rocks, hula-hoops, go-go boots, and corsets. Oh wait, some people still like those latter two ;)
Anyway, I like the article, it's funny :)
Love the Geocitiesisation...
...but you missed out an overly colourful and patterned background that makes the text even harder to read, a background MIDI tune and none of your links were underlined in blue!
Still, as someone else said - it did take me back a few years!
Excellent idea.
It takes me back to the good old days when a basic knowledge of HTML was enough to make you a web guru and if you could put a animated gif together then you were teh God of Interweb.
Seriously though - haven't we lost something now all sites look the same. After all, they wern't all crap were they ?
You got the style badly wrong!
Seriously, what's the matter with you? How could you forget Rule #1 of GeoCities web design?
" Thou shalt have no other font but MS Comic Sans "
Also, the links shouldn't have worked. For preference they should point to "C:\Documents And Settings\User\Desktop\some_website.url" or other shortcut on your local hard drive.
*And* you forgot the "Last updated:" footer showing that it hadn't been updated in years. Sheesh! This has to be _the_ worst imitation geocities website I've seen all morning!
Wouldn't it be quicker...
...if Yahoo just sent the data to the Archive Team directly? Much like organisations and individuals donating their records to a suitable institution or library.
Not as exciting or newsworthy as the mad download frenzy currently underway though.
In years to come
Will we see Geocities pages on the Antique's Road Show.
Young kid walks in with CD-ROM and an Win 95 Machine to view it.
Presenter: Ahh.... Win95 I remember this. Why don't I go and have a cup of tea while it starts up.
...2 hrs later its running.
Presenter: Show me what you have then.
Kid: My Daddy done a back up of Geocities before Yahoo killed it.
Presenter: What all of it?
Kid: Well as much s he could
Presenter: This has got to be on of the most complete archives of socail history I have ever seen. This is fantastic. Do you have any favorites?
Kid: I espically like the websites about a game called Tombraider.
Ahh Lara Croft. Yes I remember Tombraider.
Presenter: Any other favorites.
Kid: I like this one which is about a ladies cat that died.
Presenter: Yes there was lots of sites just like that one. ..........continues in this vein.
We may think its all crap now but in years to come. Goldmine
Never mind the stupid graphic design/layout skills, there is some useful content.
I saved a few myself
wget -r will save all of them :-)
wget -r -np will save one site.
(Linux and Windows versions available)
Mines the one with the "css for Dummies".
Wot, no Angelfire?
Fantastic article - it reminded me of being 14 again. Only things missing are a badly tiled eye-watering background image, locked so text scrolls over it and excessive use of blink and marquee tags.
So long, and thanks for all the gifs
The first website I ever built was in 1999 and was on Geocities and now it's my job. It was really quite pleasing to use in a way although I don't think I ever looked under teh hood to see what sort of codeMess it spewed out.
Love the layout of the article. Genius!
Farewell, Geocities
I'm sure I have a couple of Geocities accounts from way back when - assuming they've ascaped the purges. Somewhere, they'll be preserved into perpetuity now.
Oh dear.
Waiting for Google to buy it
Why don't Google add it to their Google Pages empire? Their search service would be poorer without all these Geocities pages, yes pages that might not look great, but at least have some original content!
This is a serious task
Well done that man. In 10 years time I want to be able to tell my son that I was there at the beginning of the web. I remember when animated gifs were the coolest thing on the planet; I've seen web pages with 20 frames, none of which quite fitted properly; I remember a time before CSS and DHTML; I remember how the web changed when Netscape 3 was released. I want to be able to show him these pages so he can poor scorn on his old Dad.
All this is after I teach him BASIC on my BBC Master though.
Mines the one with the spinning logo.
Turn on animated gifs 4 full effect
It occurred to me to tinker with about:config to see if the story had any of the dreadfully horrid animated gifs. Yup, sure enough. Can't.stand.it.anymore have.to.turn.animated.gifs.off now...
But thanks for the reminder of how truly awful some of those Geocities self-proclaimed 'web designers' were.
Of course now those 'designers' are much more mature and have other, more modern even more-dreadful-in-other-ways websites.
I havent seen that Netscape gif in ages!
Won't archive.org be doing this automatically anyway?
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And let's not forget 'Best viewed using Any Browser':
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Oi, where's the rotating mailbox?
No self-(respecting/abusing) person would omit the US-style mailbox.
And no embedded MIDI file, either.
Love the article style - this really was the golden age of the web! Sites built by enthusiasts, not corporations... a community feeling... and nothing of any actual use or benefit to mankind. (mind you, that last point is still true)
I might be wrong but........
isnt this already archived on the wayback machine (I admit I havent looked, or even to being that bothered)
Yeah, its been years since I have seen those animated gifs. The Best seen in netscape navigator brought back a few memories. :)
To be fair, while a lot of them are crap there is probably more useful websites on web 0.2 than web 2.0!
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Aaaaaah! Fecking brilliant
I remember the Geocities page I made for my Quake clan back in 1998! Knocked up from a collection of horrible wordart in MS Frontpage or something.
Gradients! Everything had to have Gradients! And I definitely remember having one of those counters... Ah happy days!
Memory, turn your face to the moonlight!
The Netscape 1.1n logo! The first browser to support backgrounds! Begone, boring, grey background! Hello "about:mozilla"!
I started creating websites back in 1994 for MCSA mosaic 1.0 and I remember the first time I was able to <CENTER> text and images and things in Netscape 1.0 "Blue! Throbbing! N!". It was incredible, the extra creative freedom you suddenly had! Ahhh, nostalgia. Sepia toned memories of sitting at an AIX terminal writing markup in asedit.
On a more serious note, how come we all applaud Netscape for extending the HTML standard with proprietary tags but pillory MS for doing the same with IE? I mean, IE didn't "kill" Netscape, Netscape deciding to charge for it's previously free browser did that.
GeoCities and me
Wow, what a project! I love saving things for posterity. I don't have enough disk space for the whole of GeoCities though lol
I became an inhabitent of GeoCities in early 1997. Having just ventured on to the Internet for the first time I wanted to have my own home page online. I got a book from the public library "Learn HTML 3.2 in 24 Hours" and created my first web page. I was hooked. My address was www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Sands/9439 and my site went through umpteen incarations, both framed and non-framed, and Netscape and Internet Explorer viewable designs. Oh, how I used to love it. All hand-coded too.
I'm so glad that someone is preserving GeoCities :)
I've looked and the last incarnation of my GeoCities is available at the wayback machine
Plus one point eight
The only difference between Geocities and the Blogosphere is that Geocities had eye candy.
Now the wastelands of the Tubewebs are a bland place indeed.
love the article formatting :)
"In honor of the dearly departing web host, we'll continue in a more suitable format"
Loved it! Especially the "web ring" and the dated netscape info.
Most amusing and deff brought a smile :0
You can knock it, but back at one point the only way to get "free" website hosting was to be on Geocities. My brother and I started up our first websites on Geocities (actually, we shared one) and eventually it grew so popular that we had to pay Geocities to get rid of the annoying ads, we had our content stolen and mirrored and eventually had to move onto our own hosting (which gets more bandwidth taken up each year). That site now stands proudly at www.scoutingresources.org.uk and stresses the (very kind) host that it's on at regular intervals!
Geocities was a seed. Yeah, there was a lot of crap, but that statement can be applied to the Internet as a whole. What it did, though, was seed the ideas of HTML and putting content online to a whole host of people who couldn't afford hosting, or didn't know if hosting was for them. It greatly simplified things like forums, etc. and I'm not saying they were the first, but they had a good community and if you were just starting out, it allowed you to do *just* HTML without learning FTP, Unix permissions and a ton of other stuff. It was a fantastic intro and testbed.
I don't even know if our original website is still up, (it was mirrored and archive.org'd, though, that's for sure) but I would like to think that some of the stuff in my old bookmarks that happened to be on Geocities would stand a chance of surviving. It's a bit of Internet history, even if only for lessons learned, and one of the first real social networking sites (think about it - webrings, forums, "street names", it had everything needed to be a social networking site, not just a HTML host).
Even today, I'm porting code from a GBA port of a Spectrum game (http://www.geocities.com/quirky_2k1/) - all of which is hosted on Geocities and would be a great loss if it were to disappear.
Not everything useful has to come in a leather bound binder, with top quality paper. Similarly, not every website has to be on www.website-topic.com to be relevant or useful. Things like circuit diagrams, pinouts, obscure information on machine internals - I often run onto Geocities while hunting down this type of vital information and to lose it just because it was Geocities would be stupid.
@Chris Adams.
It wasn't just the charging that did for Netscape.
The fact that Netscape 4 shipped as a bloat-laden shitheap that needed a RAM upgrade on our Dell P90s to get off its fat arse and do anything useful, while IE4 shipped as a lean, mean, fighting machine prompted a mass migration where I was at the time. We had the global, paid for license, it's purely that the product stunk like a pile of rotting badgers that forced us off it.
I remember remarking at the time when I compared the two, that if you were to take a guess as to which was the product of the exciting, go-ahead, small, responsive company and which was the product of the bloat-addicted, corporate sales focussed, evil software empire, you'd be wrong.
Ah, the memories...
Fun to read article, just the nostalgia is worth it... I also had my first site on GeoCities, at the time they had those funny names (I think mine was on CapeCanaveral or the like). Later, when Yahoo bought it, I updated the name, but the look is the same as in 1996 -- when I made it as part of a grad school course in bioinformatics using nothing but Notepad -- as required by the prof, but there wasn't too much choice back then anyway... HotDog anyone? And later, Netscape Composer...
Of course, I did have a couple of animated GIFs, including the "under construction" one from the article, a bad background (amoebas, although I took care to have the text legible at least), and plenty of broken links (by now, for sure). But I decided not to touch the main page anymore, just leave it as a web antique. :-) When I came to the US in 2002, I also added a photo/narrative page for my family and friends back home to see -- something people now do with blogs or the like -- which I updated for a year before getting sick of it.
@Chris Adams
"IE didn't "kill" Netscape, Netscape deciding to charge for it's previously free browser did that."
Nope. AOL bought Netscape, and then promptly licensed IE to be the under-pinnings of the AOL software. THAT is what put a fork in Netscape.
On the bright side, forks exist ...
Re: But only *one* web-ring?!?
One Web Ring to Rule them All...
Lest we Forget...
Lets be perfectly honest, geocities should never be forgotten, it means many things to many people; the perfect example of how NOT to do web design or the place where perhaps you had your first website, or perhaps you used to visit geocities sites. Its history and it needs to be preserved.
It was one of the first places where web advertising really kicked off, it was the first real coming of the cowboy copy and paste website maker. It was even the first social networking site thanks to its own templates. Lets remember it for what it was, keep a copy of it and hopefully NEVER employ any of the design styles used therein.
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Tiny and Big could use a sandbox mode where you just place WHATEVER you want. That would make the game 10x awesomer :D
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Nov 6, 2012Really interesting arcade game. Cool vibe and funny story. Interesting ideas. It is a pity that the graphics look so poorly and I wish that the game does not have more weapons / opportunities because after a short time, the possibility offered by the game just bored. For this game has some not elaborate and it can sometimes upset. It is a pity that such an idea has not been fully exploited. My Rating - 6/10… Expand
Jun 5, 2013Tiny & Big is an innovative adventure that suffers a bit from lack of polish (small team). You're armed with a lazer that cuts rocks half (and creates ledges for you to use), hook to pull rocks near you and a rocket weapon that let's you shoot a spiked rocket to any surface and then activate it to push it away. Combining these tools you are tasked to get back your grandpas old magical underwear, cutting through levels filled with huge rocks, statues and stairways. If you like the artstyle of Borderlands you will find Tiny & Bigs' sandy temples rather pretty. I must warn though that the controls and camera feel a bit slippery in certain tight moments and you might end up dying "for the wrong reasons". The game is also very short as I completed it in 2 hours. I didn't try to pick all of the collectibles, secrets etc. though, so if you're a completionist the game will offer you much more. Also, Tiny & Big is good enough to fool around after being completed.… Expand
Jul 3, 2013This game is like any other 3d puzzle platformer with all the fun sucked right out of it. The graphics are pretty cool, but that's not what most people play games for. The puzzles are repetitive and dull, and don't ever seem to use Tiny's arsenal to its full extent. The controls are awkward and almost broken, and it is riddled with glitches. I was bored most of the time.
Jul 12, 2013Not a bad game, but feels a bit more like a tech demo than an actual game. The way you can cut pretty much any piece of the level is really fun for a while, and can help you come up with outside-the-box-solutions to puzzles. It's short enough to stay interesting to the end.
The other ways to manipulate stuff the rocket and the hook feel somewhat less pleasant. The way Tiny takes the device off his back every time you use it gets somewhat annoying. The other thing I didn't like was the art style, but that's a personal preference.… Expand
Aug 4, 2013Very underrated and very fun game, great design, great soundtrack, great gameplay, any fan of 3D platformers will really enjoy their time with this game. One drawback though from making this game a 10 out of 10 would be how short the game is, to finish the game without getting all the collectables will take about only 4hours of gameplay. But a very fun 4hours, I'd also recommend picking up the soundtrack too if you're into indi bands. 8/10… Expand
Aug 23, 2013I really, really wanted this game to be good, I waited so long for it to come out, and what do I end up with? A broken platformer with 3 hours of gameplay. 1 1/2 hours will be falling off the same platform because the running and jumping is so broken it feels like you're controlling a brick.
Jan 10, 2014Joeberto's Short Review:
- Great and innovative platform-game
- Nice arts, and funny 3D graphic, it remembers Psychonauts
- Too short! I mean.. 2 hours of gameplay.. seriously??
Jun 24, 2014This game is different. I liked the style and the atmosphere. But it feels incomplete, collectibles and secrets have zero value and there is no incentive to replay. Near the end I felt frustrated by multiple deaths caused by falling through black cracks in a black floor in a black level. Not good. Overall interesting experience, good for the 1 EUR I spent on it. Definitely not a 10 EUR title for my tastes.… Expand
Jul 30, 2014It's a fun little 3D platform game, but it gets old quite fast, even though it's already short. The physics part looked like it had some great possibilities, but didn't end up to be what it could've been. There isn't much variation in the puzzles (if you could call them puzzles). Sometimes you need to play parts over a few times just to get a laser-cut exactly right, otherwise something you're creating (say a bridge) doesn't drop perfect, falls down and is gone for good, leaving you stuck. Worst part of that is that if you've collected some collectibles and need to reload a checkpoint, you need to grab those again too.
On a whole it seems well put together though, but I've played demos that kept me entertained longer than this.
Get it when it's on sale, the full price is a bit much for this game.… Expand
Jun 23, 2012A **** awesome game. I love it as much as super meat boy, but as an adventure-kind-of-type game! but even a little more, because you're chasing the magic underpants. I like it a lot :-)
Jan 28, 2013Tiny & Big has very different and fresh game mechanics that make for a great gaming experience. I haven't been so pleasantly surprised by a game in a long time. This one is worth checking out.
Aug 28, 2014Grandpa's Leftovers is short, sweet, and has a novel game mechanic that actually works. Most people will get less than a day of play time from this game.
Nov 3, 2014Well, what to say about this game. It isn't entirely bad, but it gets repetitive and boring in a few hours. When I look at it in my steam library, I don't really want to play. Yes, the game shows some original mechanics, which can be really cool and funny, but I don't think it saves the game at all. I think 5/10 is what I feel.
I liked the game, but i found it quite repetetive. The Slice, Push, Pull mechanic gives you some interesting gameplay but perhaps there is more puzzle potential than the developers realised. Again, the radio constantly giving you hints which kills what little difficulty the game has anyway, got on my nerves a lot.
It passed 2 hours of my time anyway and quite enjoyed it, shame there is no replay value to it other than cutting stuff up.… Collapse
Oct 1, 2012Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers is a good, but not great, indie puzzle platformer.
Aug 31, 2012Tiny & Big is not an altogether bad game. It's certainly not broken, it has a lot going for it, and on paper it would sound great. But it also serves as a good example as to why publishers can be a good thing. I think that with additional play testing and someone higher up to reign in the focus a little, Tiny & Big could have been another entry into the growing list of awesome "indie" games. As is, it's a game with solid base but one that fails to do anything with it.


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A mother and her daughter confronted a man Tuesday night who had broken into their home on Grandview Drive in Pittsfield Township.
Maria Rodriguez and her mother Sarah Rodriguez were down the street shopping at a nearby Walgreens when a man broke into their home. They arrived in time to catch him in the act.
The couple entered their garage and saw a man standing in the kitchen. He started to flee the home in the Rodriguez's new Ford Escape that he had loaded with items from the home, including electronics such as a TV and computer.
The women tried to stop the man. They grabbed his arm through the driver's side window, but he threatened to shoot them.
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Washington State was similar to Fresno State purely in the sense that they threw the ball more than just about anyone in the nation in 2013. The Cougars rarely relied on the running game and did little to control the play clock throughout the season. In week two, the Cougars traveled to USC and left with a 10-7 upset victory over the Trojans. Taking a deeper look into the game we see USC's defense allowed the following:
Passing yards allowed - 215 yards, 1 TD, 2 interceptions
Rushing yards allowed - 7 yards, no touchdowns
Turnovers forced - 2 interceptions, 1 fumble recovery
QB Sacks - 4
We are able to see that although the Cougars put the ball in the air often, USC was able to limit the amount of passing yards the Cougars compiled. USC also controlled the time of possession in this game as they held the ball for over 32 minutes.
Arizona State is the closest thing to the Bulldogs offense USC faced in 2013. Arizona State was able to throw the ball with relative ease as well as run it effectively against the Trojans. In their 62-41 victory over the Trojans, Arizona State racked up over 600 yards of total offense against a Trojans defense that had been stellar up to this point in the season. Arizona State's offensive breakdown went as follows:
Passing yards allowed - 351 yards, 3 TDs, 1 interception
Rushing yards allowed - 261 yards, 4 touchdowns
Turnovers forced - 1 interception
QB Sacks - 1
USC's struggles against the Sun Devils can be traced to the fact that their defensive line was not able to pressure the Devils QB. At the same time the Sun Devils had relatively no problems opening up running lanes as they carved the USC defense for over 250 yards rushing.
Oregon State fielded one of the top passing QB's yardage wise in the nation in 2013. Sean Mannion began the season on a tear leading the Beavers to a 6-1 record. Unfortunately for Mannion the Beavers would drop their final five games of the season to finish a disappointing 6-6. However, the Beavers offense was similar to Fresno State's in the sense that they also threw the ball at a level most teams in college football did not. Against USC the Beavers offense was shut down in a 31-14 loss. Here is how the Beavers offense fared against the Trojans:
Passing yards allowed - 277 yards, 1 TD, 3 interceptions
Rushing yards allowed - 92 yards, 0 touchdowns
Turnovers forced - 3 interceptions
QB Sacks - 2
USC was able to pressure Mannion into three mistakes which directly led to points for the Trojans. We are able to see a common theme with the Trojan defense. In games where they shut down the opposing team's running game they came out victorious because they were able to constantly pressure the QB. In games where USC could not keep the running game down they struggled to compete. Obviously USC was not victorious against Washington State, but they shut down the Cougars running and passing game giving the Trojans a chance to win the game.
The last team USC faced with a potent offense was UCLA. The Trojans would lose to the Bruins by the score of 35-14 to close out the regular season. UCLA's offense was not the most potent numbers wise, but they were able to move the ball on the ground and as we have mentioned when a team can move the ball on the ground against the Trojans they tend to have success overall. Here are the stats from the UCLA game:
Passing yards allowed - 208 yards, 0 TD, 0 interceptions
Rushing yards allowed - 188 yards, 5 touchdowns
Turnovers forced - 0 turnovers
QB Sacks - 2
UCLA was able to move the ball on the ground which directly led to a lack of pressure on the Bruins QB and a total of five touchdowns on the ground.
What would all of this research do for us if we could not use it for some type of analysis on the game itself? Fresno State is going to have to find a way to run the ball against the Trojans. The Bulldogs have been a pass first offense all season. They have faced very few teams that can bring defensive pressure with their front seven like the Trojans will be able to. San Diego State and Utah State may be the only two teams who were able to pressure the Dogs QB Derek Carr anywhere remotely close to what the Trojans will be able to do. If the Bulldogs are not able to use the run game to alleviate Carr and the passing game it could be a long day for the Bulldogs and their record breaking QB. Expect the Trojans to pressure Carr throughout the course of the game. This may be the one aspect that will decide who wins this game. At this point there is no telling how the Bulldogs will handle the Trojans pressure, but if they are able to do so look for the Bulldogs to walk away with a victory. If they cannot USC will have little problem shutting down the Bulldogs defense and leaving with their tenth victory of the season.


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The Forest Man of India
Meet Majuli, India native Jadav Payeng. For almost 45 years now he has been planting trees on the Island of Majuli, in North East India. Through his work, he has brought vegitation back to the barren, eroding island. Alone, he has now planted a dense forest larger than Central Park in New York City. His efforts have been recognized by the Former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kamar as the "Forest Man of India"! Check out the video below for more information on this amazing accomplishment and the man who saved his island!
The Cost-Efficient, and Energy Efficient Future of Power Bars
Energy waste can take many different forms, such as failing to turn the lights off when leaving a room. Now, with Cactus, this is no longer an issue. Cactus is a power bar which connects to the household WiFi, and allows users to turn devices which are plugged into it on and off using a smartphone. It also has a sensor that turns the lights on when someone enters a room and then turns them off again when they leave. On average, "standby power" accounts for 10% of American energy bills, which can total over $100 a year. With Cactus this can be easily managed. The video posted below was made by the inventors to promote Cactus as a crowd sourcing project, but it also shows the device in action. They have since met their monetary goals and are developing their prototypes. These power strips can currently be ordered for about forty dollars, which is the least expensive of the smart power bars on the current market. Check out the article that creator Giuseppe Crosti wrote for the Huffington post about his journey to make Cactus an energy saving reality, and developer Paul Rolfe's blog entry about the device!
The Future of Manitoba Food Policy is Up In the Air
Over the past year, events catalysed by a government seizure of dried cured meats from Harborside Farms have propelled Manitoba Food Policy unto uncertain waters. A burgeoning market for local foods, which Manitobans ensure is socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable, goes to battle against government food safety regulations. The regulations are claimed to be unclear, which makes them hard to follow. A coalition of fishers, processors, farmers and citizens have rallied in support of the local food market in Manitoba and are calling themselves FEAST (Farmers and Eaters Sharing the Table). They are demanding a say in policy-making, and from the FEAST report last month, it seems they are doing just that! The province is currently reformulating the regulations towards "outcome-based standards". This means the process by which the food is produced is less important, provided that the resulting food passes safety standards. This works in the favour or small-scale growers and providers as it allows methods to be used outside of regulated mass growth projects, and does not require the purchase of expensive equipment. Issue still remains within the criteria for safe food though; the onus lies on the producer to create a safe product, but the judgement from regulators working within a guideline. Further work at defining the standards for safe food is needed, although the policy is moving in the right direction!
Watch this video for more information on Harborside Farms: http://bit.ly/1nGZY9N, and check out Sustain Ontario for a full article: http://bit.ly/WIznlJ
Eco-Sense Living for the Modern Era!
Meet Ann and Gord Baird! This family strives for a biocentric life, a way of living that utilises gardening and the earth's many natural energy sources to allow them to live symbiotically with the land around them. Their life philosophy focuses on family, community, the environment, and on teaching others how to live in a sustainable way. Their home has been deemed the "World's Greenest Modern House" by the Living Building rating system – the greenest rating system used worldwide. Their house features thermal hot water, passive solar power, rainwater harvesting, compostable toilets and a living roof! Their blog has information on workshops they do, good plants to plant in your garden, and a documentation of their life in a living building! Check out the page for inspiration, and witness the great work they are doing!
Dress to Impress: Bird Courtship Rituals
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Birds exhibit some of the most elaborate and bizarre courtship rituals of any animals on earth. Here are a few of the more beautiful and zany examples:
The marvellous spatuletail hummingbird exhibits one of the most extreme courtship rituals (see video below). The male bird has two elongated tail feathers that end in a large violet-blue disc, or spatule. The male bird hovers in the air, waving his spatules in front of the female and making a snapping sound with his beak. To the hummingbird, which is the size of a ping-pong ball, this display costs a lot of energy. Spectators of this courtship ritual have reported that after he's done dancing, the male will have to flop down on a branch, exhausted, and sit still for over an hour to regain his strength. This species of bird is rare and endangered, and lives in only a few…
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Great or Gross?
A Detroit native suggests gross and great do not need to be separate: he plans to bike from Wisconsin to New York City and only eat food that has been thrown out along the way! He acknowledges that although dumpster diving is unsanitary, yet he wants to do it anyway because it is "not about him", but an important cause that people need to be aware of. He is hoping people will dine with him throughout his journey, and his efforts will help lessen the amount of food wasted daily! Read the full article via the link here!
Bee-Killing Pesticides Found in "Bee-Friendly" Plants Sold in Ontario
This is some serious news!!! Bee attractive plants that gardeners use to promote Bee procreation, have been tested and found to contain neonicotinoids! In Canada!
The seeds of these plants are treated the same way as farmers crops – they are soaked in the pesticide so that as it grows, the pesticide is contained within each cell of the plant. It is more effective than spraying and reduces labour hours, however at what price? These neonics are the same that have polluted the water supply throughout the states, and has been banned from use in animal fodder and animal and plant refugee conservation sites.
About 50% of the bee-friendly plants have enough of the pesticide to kill bee's outright, and 40% have two varieties of the neonics! Samples were taken from London, Ontario, Montreal and Vancouver, all with similarly disturbing results. How are we as consumers able to encourage growth in the bee population if the plants we buy to do just that, are actually detrimental to their numbers?
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A new study released by Friends of the Earth Canada shows that over 60 per cent of "bee-friendly" home garden plants sold at garden centers have been pre-treated with neonicotinoids (neonics) pesticides shown to harm and kill bees. Of the samples collected from London, 100 per cent contained neonics, the highest amount in the Canadian tests.
The plants tested were: Calibrachoa, Gerbera Daisy, Shasta Daisy and Zonal Geranium. All but the Zonal Geranium showed two neonic pesticides, increasing its sub-lethal effects.
The Canadian data is part of a larger study, Gardeners Beware 2014, released by Friends of the Earth in Canada and Friends of the Earth U.S. with Pesticide Research Institute (PRI). Garden plant samples were collected from top garden retailers from 18 cities across Canada and the United States. Canadian samples were collected in London (Ontario), Montreal (Quebec) and Vancouver (British Columbia).
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Your ecological footprint – what?!
Internationally Unrelated provides hard facts about the ecological footprint of our society. August 19th, Tania reports, was Earth Overshoot Day – the day which marks when we as a global society have used as much resources as the earth can replenish in one year. If this date was December 31st, then we would be a sustainable society. However, we still have four full months left on the calendar, and a part of August! This translates to a shorter life for the earth overall through harsher effects of harvesting resources, and land and habitat degradation. Read the article reblogged below for a fuller picture on Earth Overshoot Day! Thanks Internationally Unrelated!
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I could start with the typical "save the earth, it is the only we have", which is completely true, but I will start to tell you that we, as humans need to stop acting like the planet is infinite and it is never going to run out of resources, if not for the earth we share, for ourselves. It will. It is already… And still, it passes us by like it is nothing. Why? Because we don't see it truly in front of us. If we see war, we see dead people, we see injured people, we know it is happening, we know we need to do something. We don't see the impact of our actions in our planet, at least clearly. But it is happening.
Yesterday, according to the Global Footprint Network, was the Earth Overshoot Day. For those of you who are not familiar with this, the…
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Has Bottled Water Gone Too Far?
Bottled water, revealed by an article from Mother Jones, comes from either springs, or regular tap water. Companies then package it and ship it to stores, where consumers seem to prefer it over what they get from their own taps. The privitisation of a community resource, something that is required to be provided by the government, is my first issue with the product. Why should consumers pay for water that is bottled and moved around, if it is the same as what they already have? It boggles my mind to say the least.
What is even worse is that the springs and taps which provide water for these companies are centralized in California, which right now is experiencing their third driest summer on record! You'd think that the needless use of plastic, and commodification of a community resource would be enough to ruffle some feathers; yet the source of the water is continuing to degrade the Californian land! When will the issues with bottled water be enough to slow their sales? Nothing it seems compares with the taste of "real water" (quote taken from a comment on the source article! Can you believe it!?).
Look at the diagrams below show the concentration of water sources in California, in relation to the rest of the United States – or read the article for yourself here!


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A successful experience depends on who you hire to work by your side. As a Realtor servicing commercial and residential sales in Iowa and Nebraska, my commitment to you is to provide you with vital information in order succeed in your real estate transaction. Such information as market comparison analysis, different ways to finance your property and a marketing plan to maximize your returns when selling real estate. Also work in cooperation with mortgage brokers and title companies when assistance is needed.
Above all an agent performing under the "Realtor Code of Ethics"' to be reliable and dedicated to all her clients.
Gina Kopera
4 bed / 5 bath
5,261 sqft
3 bed / 2 bath
2,331 sqft


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So, uh, I feel like a person who has never played a video game before, but how the fuck do you download the DLC in this game? When I go to the eShop it tells me it must open the software to download the stuff, but I can't seem to find any sort of option within the game to download it. I just want to grab the free DLC before it's no longer free (3/5).
I downloaded the game from the eShop, if that means anything.
I really hope I'm not missing some obvious menu choice somewhere.