27 September 2006

worldKit : http://worldkit.org/ is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It's a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects. Examples page for links to live uses.

Information Visualization : http://www.infovis.net/index.php?lang=2 is an irregularly published e-zine that discusses information visualization topics of interest to cartographers (all 183 issues of the e-zine are available). Via http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/information-visualization.html

Great Wall aerial photos : http://citi.sdsu.edu/gallery/projects/greatwall/photoalbum_view

The ultimate "Where's Waldo" type picture : http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm (2.5 Gigapixel Image) Via http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com/2005/01/hidden-in-plain-sight.html

Mind Mapping : http://www.blinklist.com/tag/Mind%20Mapping/ user submitted websites and related content chosen and rated by contributors from http://www.blinklist.com/

Sarajevo Survival Map : http://www.famainternational.com/images/map/survivalmap.jpg Via http://www.famainternational.com/map/map-f.htm

Maps in Literature : http://www.stanfords.co.uk/newsletter/current/archive/september_letter/htm/maps-in-literature.htm#conan_doyle

Jerusalem coordinates in GoogleMap.

Historical German (& Prussian) Maps : http://members.cox.net/hessen/hesse.htm

Early Modern Cartographic Resources : http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/04-2/sanfinte.htm on the World Wide Web

So You Want A Transparent GIF : http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3480011

Fauvism : http://www.sanderhome.com/Fauves/ an excellent resource on The Wild Beasts of Early 20th Century Art.

Sir Peter Blake, the arch exponent of the genre, defined collage as "anything where something is attached to something else". Via http://colinrobinson.com/collage.html

Walking Meditaion : http://www.egreenway.com/meditation/walk.htm
Contemplative or Spiritual Walking Practices (Labyrinth Walking, Pilgrimages, Quests)

Legendary and Historical Jesters : http://www.thenoodlebowl.com/jesters/pages/legreal.html Imagery

"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author
"Don't be so humble. You're not that great." - Golda Meir
"Go ahead and push your built-in 'happiness-now button' (since we never could get the 'do-over button' to work)." - TU
"The whole of life lies in the verb seeing." - Teilhard De Chardin, Catholic philosopher
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up." - Oliver W. Holmes
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet." - William Lloyd George Via http://www.gocreate.com/quotamaze/qpol.htm#hear

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