HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. : http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
A novel synchronoptic concept depicts a full panorama of history in such a way that it will appeal to a cultivated public at large. A spatial representation of time has obvious educational advantages: here history is no longer learned but viewed.

Famous Curves Index : http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html including; Lituus, Equiangular Spiral, Involute of a Circle, Hyperbolic Spiral, etc.

Conflict Cartography paper at : http://www.viewcraft.com/pdfs/ViewCraft_ConflictCartographyMarch04.pdf

Map Application proof of concept using; SQLServer 2000: Stores data for States, Borders and Border Points. - Visual Studio .NET: IDE for C# and ASP.NET - C#: Middle-tier and ASP.NET Code-behind - ASP.NET: Front end - XML-SVG: Use of W3C vector graphic standard to pipe graphic instructions to internet client. - ADO.NET: Database Interface : http://boltmap.com/Home/default.aspx

How can I take a screenshot from a DVD, - in Windows Media Player go to View->Options, then turn off the Hardware accelaration(under Playback) by moving the slider to None. Now play the video and press the PrtScn button (above the Insert button on your keyboard) to take the screenshot, last launch your favorite photo editor and paste(ctrl-v) to get the screenshot. From http://www.videohelp.com/faq.htm#screenshot

"Everything is an experiment." - Tibor Kalman
"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." - R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002)
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_quotes.htm
"The longest journey begins with a single step." - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." - Raymond Inmon (from http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/walking.htm)
"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive at where we started And know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."- Antonio Machado
"The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends."- Tom Brown, Jr.
"Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path."- Author Unknown
"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."- M. C. Richards
"All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart." - Carlos Castenda
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."- Ursula K. LeGuin

"I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know." - W.B. Yeats 1865-1939 (from The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry, 1900) from http://www.faklen.dk/en/weekly/quotes/

"No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, Easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way." - Adapted from Sanskrit by Octavio Paz and translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger (from: "In Light of India").