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I heard on BBC this morning a piece about a new wiki, WikiCrimes.org. The site was created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in Brazil with the intent of addressing underreporting of crimes:

"We have a problem in Brazil, in that crime data is a monopoly of the police. There are a lot of debate if there is a manipulation or not of the data." -- BBC article

Like all wikis, the site relies on the integrity of its reporters. For some reason this just feels like a bigger issue than it does on say, a wikipedia article about Britney. Still, I love the integration and juxtaposition of technology with real-life street-level reporting. I mean really, who can have too many stand-up-to-the-man movements?

I'm off to the land of lots of tents and no internets :)

I'll be back in a couple weeks with crop share, OLS and ocean pictures.

Bye!

PS: You can play with this while I'm gone, http://www.factoryfarmmap.org. And after you've had enough of reality, feel free to cheer yourself up at http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail173.html and http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/web_crash_2007.php.

http://www.freewebs.com/bluebricks/lifelove.htm

(via wooster)

You want to recycle what? http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/ :D

(via Treehugger)

I check Blue Jake daily for some wick'd cool (that's Rhode Island speak for pretty spiffy) street art and unconventional, creative portraiture. This entry's caption is fucking brilliant: http://www.bluejake.com/archives/2007/01/07/quest_mechanical_corp.php

It was a beautiful day-- it felt like late May. Almost enough to make you forget about the gigantic global warming catastrophe that is most definitely going to be fucking all of us in a few more years.

That about sums up every conversation I had this weekend.