A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol which represents an object or a concept by illustration. : http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Pictogram

Amazon's new visual search(?) application uses horizontal sliders and icons http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/finder/104-0904780-3886345?productGroupID=loose%5fdiamonds to allow users to specify what would otherwise by drop-down database criteria for the purchasing decision (from a blog with good AJAX discussion http://jszen.blogspot.com/2005/05/ajaxed-out.html )

Useful Sites for MapInfo Users(And all people who love maps) : http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html#hotlists

eMail Illustrated showing (linked) thumbnail sketches of documents referenced in the message : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/DiscoveryEmail.htm

Wiki Engine Comparison : http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:compare

The Visual Mind II (Leonardo Books) by Michele Emmer (Editor) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262050765/qid=1116622299/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-0936594-6492010 Mathematical forms rendered visually can give aesthetic pleasure; certain works of art can seem to be mathematics made visible. (ala Fibonacci "maps"?)

“What I’m proposing to myself and to other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude—that you act as though you’ve never been there before. So that you’re not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.” – John Cage, 1992 (John Cage advocated paying attention to the world around us; that the purpose of art is “to sober and quiet the mind, so that it is in accord with what happens.” He is mainly known as a composer who affected the course of music in our time, but he also lectured, wrote commentary and poetry, and made prints, watercolors, and drawings. He died in 1992, but his work continues to affect people conscious of shaping their own lives.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891300164/qid=1116624268/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/002-0936594-6492010?v=glance&s=books

"The trick is learning to maintain an unwavering focus upon your desired end result, your completed dream, the "finish line", without insisting upon, or even contemplating, its means of attainment, no matter how logical, obvious, or tempting it may seem." - The Universe