wiki scanner

there's a fun new tool that has been getting a lot of buzz and ruffling a few feathers as it lists all the organizations (by ip address) that have edited wikipedia pages, along with their edits. i've had some fun checking out a few that i thought might be illuminating - molson... labatt... stuff like that. but i found a pretty good one today... benny hinn ministries.

benny is a crook and liar and easily one of the sleaziest people around. he hosts a show wherein he claims to heal people - then he jet sets away on his luxury jet and lives it up in $10,000 a night hotels and the like. his suits cost more than i make in a year. the cbc did a little expose on him recently that was fun but only scratched the surface.

the wikiscanner page on benny hinn is a veritable feast of funny, albeit in a geeky cyber way.

and... it would appear that someone within the ministries is not a big fan of benny and his work... adding the following to a rather innocuous post about how he gives sermons in cities 'in which he take a lot of money from the lame and doesn't do anything which heals them but pretends that they can be healed. Hell awaits him.'

and to drive that home the next line was added...

"This man will surely spend eternity with his father the Devil."

a more puzzling edit was for the page for Don Garlits, the 'father of drag racing' where a criticism that he has professed anti-homophobic opinion was cleansed...