Information Visualization, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management : http://my.web-zaz.com/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Discovery/Information_Visualization/Software/
Tile Engine : http://maps.civicactions.net/ is a web mapping engine that you can put in your site to present maps with clickable thumbtacks.

Music Map : http://www.stanford.edu/~dgleich/demos/worldofmusic/WorldOfMusic.html

Daniel Dream Map : http://www.raremaps.com/cgi-bin/map-builder.cgi?World+World+11618

"You Are Here : Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination" - Katharine Harmon, 2004 Princeton Architectural Press : http://www.papress.com/bookpage.tpl?isbn=1568984308 "Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention." Alsodetailed at http://www.georgeglazer.com/newyork/youarehere.html

Does Time Really Fly When You’re Having Fun? : http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:86FYWC8AKuUJ:faculty.uccb.ns.ca/philosophy/222/pdf%2520files/4%2520Time.pdf+alice+in+wonderland+industrial+age+correlation&hl=en

"Every path breaker has looked foolish, and been humiliated, yet society depends on them utterly... Only those who are willing to risk looking foolish can invent a breakthrough." - Farson and Keyes, 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins'
"The speed with which any dream may be realized, is always a function of how small the miracles have to be in order not to freak out the dreamer." - The Universe (It is odd though, given that there are only miracles, how some are more accepted than others).