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We went to the local public library last Sunday w/ Jasper to pick up some English readings. There I found Arthur (ex-NPCer) with his gigantic desktop computer in the children’s section, occupying one round table all by himself. He recognized me so I went up to him and was just about to ask him WTF he was occupying the children’s section, when he showed me what he was up to.

It turned out that he was doing some contemporary history research, namely, Hong Kong people jumping off from high places, and needed the public wifi for access to Wisenews. He was going through the local news looking for incidents when someone had done the bungee jump w/o the bungee and didn’t survive, and plotted the locations on Google Maps. He finished the one for 2008, and was about 1/3 through 2007. The news archive he has access to goes back to 1998 so when the project is completed it would be for 1998-2008, and he’ll do a short video clip showing the trend over the years and put it up on YouTube.

Arthur told me his idea came from one of his old course mates jumping off not too long ago, and there is on average one death from such jumps every two days.

Anyway, the Bungee Jump w/o Bungee blog is here.