12 September 2007

Avatars & Bots In Google Earth : http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/2007/09/avatars-bots-in.html (A Whole New Social Networking And Advertising Medium?)

War in the Pacific Map : http://www.bur.st/~akbrown/witp/map_mod.html

London Tube Map with Walklines (sometimes it's quicker to walk) Via

Scanned old maps : http://www.hipkiss.org/data/themaps.html Via

(Infographic) Thanksgiving Dinner Marathon

3D Simulation of a hexahexaflexagon

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. ("It's like a free Photoshop." - Netphoria Forum Post )

Guy Debord (1931 - 1994) spokesperson for the Situationists International, social critics who, in the 1960s, were the first to suggest that image was the real commodity in our society and that image would replace more traditional goods in the economy of the future.

School of Thangka Painting - Buddhist iconographic paintings used as visual support for meditation practice (and extremely beautiful works of art).

http://spamusement.com/ : Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

"Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one." - Sir Winston Churchill
"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christ-like potential of others." - Anthony Burgess
"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers." - Bernhard Haisch, astrophysicist
"The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end." - F. Chopin.
"Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will." - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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