Google Acquisitions Mashup : http://www.shmula.com/238/googles-acquisitions-a-timeline

Advanced Visualisation and Virtual Reality in the Social Sciences ... (PDF) - View as HTML

MAKING CAMPAIGN HEXES : http://uk.games-workshop.com/warhammer/hexes/1/ (awesome-looking 3D hex map that can change with each campaign).

CoastLine Fractal Generator Via http://www.math.fau.edu/MLogan/Pattern_Exploration/MainDirections.html

If you’ve wondered how Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! online maps compare but haven’t had time to try them all, you can play with all three at once here; http://www.rockstarapps.com/samples/map-compare/ Via http://www.cyberhobo.net/hobolinks/category/maps/ (Sites that combine online services in a map interface.)

Helpful reply from the Google API Mandebrot guy re; 'make a flat map using google maps custom tiles'.

(Yellow Pages 2.0) MojoPages : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/10/30/yellow_pages_20_mojopages.htm - providing an excellent visual time capsule of the birth of a new web 2.0 start-up.

Simple way of unfolding a piece of paper ( for example a street map ) just by pulling the opposite corners : http://www.u3p.net/fold/pliage_a.htm

RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION GRANTS IN ART+SCIENCE+TECHNOLOGY : http://www.fondation-langlois.org/pdf/e/prog_ind.pdf

Mindmap-ish connection of geo-map fragments : http://www.mlac.it/img_luxflux/n9/drills3qg.jpg ------------->

Generating some blog views : http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56092

TradeSports : http://www.tradesports.com/ the home of real-time predictions (betting exchange).

The Pakistan mirror (?) : http://www.pkblogs.com/greatmap/ of this blog.

"A GREAT discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery. " - George Polya (1887- 1985)
“The successful man is the average man, focused.” - Unknown
"Never mind the map. We will find the place itself. " - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Gilded Age, Part 2
"Things and people are not what we wish them to be, nor what they seem to be. They are what they are." - Epictetus
"... Can you give me a lift?" I said " Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' ..." - ?