Google Maps are a new approach to web applications that we call Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML; core technologies that are mature, stable, and well understood), and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web. Tthe challenges are for the designers of these applications are to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities." http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
and JavaScript (The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language; http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html ) binding everything together.

Science (database-driven) Timeline project : http://www.timelinescience.org/index.php

An effective tool for online research / writing (clipboard capture to HTML publishing) : http://www.brainstormsw.com/bm.html

Golden Ratio resources : http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/GoldenRatio.html

321 Definitions of the word 'map', 1649-1996 : http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/essays/andrews.htm

"There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap" - Einstein
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
"It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas." - Charles Deguy
"Ideas are very much like children - your own are wonderful." - unknown