26 April 2007

How Google Maps' path-drawing works : http://brevity.org/code/google/draw.html

Exemplar dynamics and the emergence of categories (PDF) - HTML Gardenfors (2000) : meanings are arranged in conceptual spaces, conceptual space has geometrical structure, and dimensions are founded in perception/cognition.

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) began making its electronic topographic mapping data available to all users free of charge over the Internet. http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=290039

Navigate a New Way : the cozy personal navigation world is being overrun by a horde of new, fabulously outfitted nav tools.

StateMaster is an online resource which allows users to compare US states in 2,500 ways.

It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time : http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/04/03/1175366240499.html

The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art : http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/

Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'" : http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/articles/akerlof/ A Personal and Interpretive Essay

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) : http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2007/04/2007_ted_prize_.html conference is an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration (slideshow of James Nachtwey photos). Via

Uncommon Ground : Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (home to the golden-capped Dome of the Rock shrine and Al Aqsa mosque, and believed to be the site where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven), and to Jews as the Temple Mount (site of their biblical temples, where one of its outer walls — known as the Western Wall — is the holiest site in Judaism), has repeatedly been a flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

"We need the tonic of wildness." - Henry David Thoreau
"The map is a help provided to the imagination through the eyes." - Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas historique (1705)
"All education must be, in the end, self-education." - Robert Henri
"This haphazard arrangement of forms may be the future of artistic harmony." - W. Kandinsky, 1911
"An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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