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WebUrbanist | Archived Articles for June, 2007

Lost Spaces and Urban Reuse

Imagine being able to walk for miles through the heart of New York city - without ever touching the ground!

Freegans Find Ways to Creatively Reuse Society's Leftovers

Freeganism is a truly fascinating way of approaching life, that involves reusing leftover food (dumpster diving), living in unused spaces (squatting) and avoiding jobs or owning vehicles whenever possible.

5 Weird and Surreal Google Street View Images

With so much focus on Google Street View privacy issues, many people have missed a whole subset of non-controversial but much more strange Street View images.

Map of the Internet

Wow, a map/picture/image/representation of the entire internet - amazing except for the fact that, like many things, it is presented entirely without useful context.

Where to Move if you Want to Get a Date

Perhaps it comes as no big surprise that the West Coast has way more single men and the East Coast has more single women by far.

Graffiti and Street Art in Melbourne, Australia

For reasons no one seems to fully understand, Melbourne has become the world capital of street painting with stencils.

Second-Life Avatars and their Real Life Users

Many people who have an avatar (digital representation) in online communities like Second Life choose to appear completely different, but some people bear a striking resemblance to their virtual persona

Wikimedia Gets More Monthly Page Views than there are People

According to Wikizine, Wikimedia Foundation websites bring in an astonishing estimated 7 billion+ page views per month between Wikipedias and other Wikimedia pages.

Urban Street Art Installation Projects

Amazing but non-commercial forms of urban street art, from silly and creative projects to works both sublime and socially relevant.

Images From The Google Street View Van: Invasion of Privacy?

Already someone is asking Google to take down an image of her house cat - if Google complies, what could it mean but the end of this tool?

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