Desire Path

Kottke has a link to a Desire Paths Flickr pool this morning.

According to Wikipedians, the desire path/desire line is:
"A path developed by erosion caused by animal or human footfall. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and amount of erosion of the line represents the amount of demand."

I love this. It makes me happy to think that strangers are forging useful paths together.(I guess that can be said for Wikipedia as well)

WikiGeniA

Eugene Efremov, friend and particularly vigilant truth hound, has run out of wrongs to right within the Wikipedia community. So he's going public. In his efforts to weed out the poorly written, sloppily organized, unsourced, vandalized or otherwise deficient Wikipedia articles, he is volunteering his services to friends and family. In his own words, WikiGeniA will, "review articles for quality, check sources, revert vandalism and verify validity, verifiability and neutrality."

SUBMIT AN ARTICLE FOR REVIEW:
Remember to include the article link and a brief outline of your beef. You can then use one of two ways to summon the powers of WikiGeniA:

• Email him at ask.eugene@yahoo.com
• Visit his Wikipedia user page and leave him a message

WANNA HELP THE CAUSE?

• Embed the above badge in your blog by adding the following:<href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eaefremov"><img src="http://www.hiyaablog.com/uploaded_images/EugenIA-707012.jpg" ></a>
• Join the Wikimedia Cause on Facebook
  

Back in Action

Oh baby. I am back on the internet like an Asian on rice. (Consequently the first thing I ate after camping) I have bathed twice, have finished the laundry and have even washed the car. I am a productive city slicking machine. Thank goodness for RSS feeds - before 10am this morning I felt like a misplaced time traveller or worse, Crocodile Dundee in New York City. Things I have already discovered this morning:
1. Wikipedia has a list of unusual deaths that began as "List of people who died with tortoises on their heads"
2. XKCD features an awesome comic about action movies and in a related move I dug up the old Josh Whedon videos for Serenity.
3. David Shrigley's photography is funny. I like this one because it reminds me of how my hair smelled last night.