London Murder Map

Sadly, our capital is not all sunshine and blooming flowers. Parts of it suck. Remember my Pocket Guide to Judging Areas of London? Well, now I have one additional source for you: a spooky Google Maps mashup that shows the locations of all murders which took place in London over the last couple of years. (And you can even find the murders by Jack the Ripper.) The location tags are conveniently colour-coded according to the weapon used: red for gun, dark blue for knife, pink for vehicle, turquoise for blunt object, light blue for bomb and so on. I love it, in a perverse kind of way. OK, not perverse, I mean, I'm not a pervert or anything but ... oh, never mind, just go on and explore at http://www.murdermap.co.uk/murder-map.asp

P.S. Who would have known it's so therapeutic to take photos with fake blood? Red food colouring + gravy = massive anger release (+ one smelly apartment afterwards)!