CollageMachine is a creative web visualization tool that learns from the user’s surfing. Instead of waiting for the user to navigate by clicking hyperlinks, the program proactively crawls the web, seeking content of interest.. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~andruid/ecology/collageMachine/indexAbout.html

"Spherizing" images in golden circle zoom view to simiulate hyberbolic lens view (concentrating more on what is at centre, rather than edges)

Here Be Dragons: "How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed in to princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

Information density you can achieve with maps. Edward Tufte has a lot to say on this; the maybe 30% of the map's real-estate that is primarily-graphical contains much more information than the 70% that is primarily-textual. And of course the 30% is still laden with text.

Idea to make a "MapRug" http://www.shining-armor.com/fun-dimensions/index.html

Musicplasma is a visual search engine that allows to find music tracks and authors according to the musical genre they belong to. Through the basic application of some essential information design techniques Musicplasma shows once again how powerful information visualization can be in the realm of search applications. ..http://www.musicplasma.com/

"Better to be lost than to find yourself in the wrong place." Cecil Touchon

Then there's that wonderful R.E.M. song, Maps and Legends (?)