24 August 2006

Geographic Visualization Research Priorities, Revisited : http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/research/2006research/chapter_11_update_new.pdf#search=%22infovis%2B10%20unsolved%22 or View as HTML

A Taxonomy of Browsing Methods : www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/visible-human/vhp/graphbrowse.ps

Of the three 2 dimensional shapes (equilateral triangle, rectangle, and hexagon) that can be used to tile the plane without holes, the hexagon is the most complex and has many interesting properties : http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/shm/index.html uses a base 7 numbering system for the hexagonal mesh.

How to find images on the mighty internet : http://urbanex.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/how-to-find-images-on-the-mighty-internet/

Statistically correct maps : http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/5/2087154.html Via http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog/cmd=search_keyword/k=mapping

VisSearch : http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/ylee12/VisSearchPages/how_does_vissearch_address_these.htm creates reusable visual computational artifacts for all Web searching processes.

del.icio.us : http://del.icio.us/ now provides thumbnails of the sites and posts which are being featured. Like the titles of the featured stories, the thumbnails also link to the original destination.

Cloud Shape Classifiers : http://cloudy.halo.gen.nz/famous (server examines each image, and reduces it to 57 numbers representing various visual qualities).

'The Civilized Explorer' features a wiki for folks visiting the Burning Man Festival with a link to a Tagzania map : http://www.tagzania.com/user/louise showing locations of places to shop in Reno.

Can Mind Maps Help You to Buy a Mountain Bike? : http://www.factograph.com/blog/2006/08/09/can-mind-maps-help-you-to-buy-a-mountain-bike/ also links to 40 Mind Map Examples

Blackboard patent : a showcase demonstration on the absurdity of software patents , reminds readers of the no learning patents campaign against software patents in Europe that has been underway for some time. Via http://www.downes.ca/archive/06/08_04_news_OLDaily.htm

Andrea McLean's pictures have been compared to maps : http://www.artspacegallery.co.uk/MainImagePages/Artists/Paintings/McLean/Morgan_writing.htm

Nitty Gritty Guides concept is pitched in episode 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=dragons_den, towards the end for around 30 seconds.

Crop (inside story) Circles : http://www.greatdreams.com/crpcirc.htm

"Your work is to discover your work, and then give all your heart to it." - Dhammapada
"If throwing a lifeline, make sure you don't knock out the person you're trying to help." - SAS Survival Guide
"All day long I have exciting ideas and thoughts. But I take up in my work only those to which my dreams direct me." - C.G. Jung
"A good indicator that you're crazy is an inability to ask the question 'Am I crazy?'" - Robert from 'Proof'
"Nothing is the infinite potential for all possibilities." - Layman John
"The wonder is this: that, as we walk it, the path becomes clear. We have only to trust it into action, then truth reveals itself, shining all the brighter for the darkness of our time." - Joanna Macy
"Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers." - Joan

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