Google Grows With Inxight Search Extender : http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=193101278 provides better summaries and makes it easier for searchers to navigate through long documents (the results are automatically clustered on-the-fly).
View-Based Search Interfaces for the Semantic Web : http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2006/makela-view-based-search-2006.pdf#search=%22hyperbolic%20tree%20ajax%22 (PDF) - HTML-Version
Making Visualization Work : http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/presentations/MakingVisualizationWork-Bederson.ppt or View as HTML
Hexagon-based images : http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dunlapg/tiles/aao.html Example
Fibonacci Sequences Arising from Paperfolding : http://www.mevis.de/~anna/publications/goslar.pdf
Map Projections : http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_projections.html From Spherical Earth to Flat Map
Maps of War : http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Via http://www.mapsofwar.com/ via http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/10/middle-east-map-changes-through-time.html
Waymarking.com provides tools for you to catalog, mark and visit unique and interesting locations around the world. Example project : http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/default.aspx?f=-1&WTGUID=5fd76818-c3b2-49d6-952a-c599e7fe8c53 and related Image Gallery
All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging : http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-the-cool-kids-are-deep-tagging/
"Make Windows XP Start Faster" : http://askbobrankin.com/make_windows_xp_run_faster.html You can do all of these things yourself, and all of the software recommended is free.
Interesting discussion of the Smiley (map theft) affair on Public Radio "Where we live" program (aired Friday 29 September) : ">target=l>http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wnpr/local-wnpr-531786.mp3> The story runs about 25 minutes , beginning about 10 minutes into the program.
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Technology Blog Directory : http://dir.blogflux.com/cat/technology_19.html Listed
The Ideas Bank : http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/category.php?catId=19
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943), Speculum Mentis
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"It's Not What Happens to You, It's What You Do About It." - W Mitchell (book title)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." - Arthur Koestler
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