Hugely important point: "If we come to accept that [data] just is, it's too easy to forget that it reflects a specific set of contexts, contingencies and choices, and that crucially, these could be (and maybe should be) different."

Near-realtime listing of all emergency-service calls in Finland. See also http://www.tilannehuone.fi/halytysmap.php

Top-notch work.

Taking Kevin Kelly's "woolly theosophism" to task - and rightly so, in my opinion. Man may mean well, but good god you can slap me right here if he's ever been right about anything.

This just can't be meant seriously.