Searching for Tao

A good friend of mine has been going through hell lately with a bedbug infestation in her Church & Wellsley apartment. For my part, I'd only heard of the little bastards when I returned to Vancouver this year and my brother recounted his own horrible experience with them. My understanding though is that they are beyond horrible.

With that in mind, I thought that I might direct you to an interesting site Lara posted on her own blog called The Bed Bug Registry. They have interactive maps of known infestations in various cities including Vancouver and Toronto as well as a reporting system you can (and should) use to help out other apartment seekers.

I ran across this in 24 this morning and decided to check the guy out online. Calling himself the bulletproof courier (though I'm not sure how he arrived at that name), he rides his bike around town with a digital video camera strapped to his helmet.

From a social perspective, the act itself is interesting, and for those of you who will probably ask, despite my opposition to CCTV, I don't really have a problem with what this guy's doing. He's an individual in a free country exercising that right in a public space. The ambiguity comes with his broadcasting this stuff in a public forum, which is the grey area. I'd be curious to see what my other activist friends think of this.

Regardless, it's pretty neat if you have a few minutes.