27 May 2008

The 7th International Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualization : http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/KDViz.htm (KDViz’08)

('04 election results) 3D Map

Cities are like plants because they both develop by continually following a principle known as local optimisation.

Mindmapping everywhere : http://mindmappingeverywhere.blogspot.com/ A webpage to share knowledge about Mindmapping techniques.

(New book) The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World (Release Date: July 15, 2008)

(20 May http://www.metafilter.com/ ) : Ruminations on the Borderlands of Cartography, or: What is not a map? ".. [via] posted by peacay at 1:43 PM - 10 comments

(Definition) "Shibui" (or Shibusa) is a broad term that can mean irregularity of form, openness to nature, roughness of texture, and the naturalness of daily life. Also refers to the Japanese "Seven aspects of being" which are simplicity, implicitness, modesty, silence, naturalness, roughness and normalcy.

Great Isaiah Scroll : http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Great_Isaiah_Scroll.html

$55-million redevelopment of Toronto's Don Valley Brickworks

I Don't Want To Grow Up

"...I did not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolute, but on a narrow rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but the certainty of meeting what remains undisclosed." - Martin Buber, Between Man and Man, trans. by Ronald Gregor Smith [London: Kegan Paul, 1947] p.184.
"Cows in Space. The herd shot around the world." - Anonymous
"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known." - Hugh Prather
"You’re an Angel among us. Someone, whose eyes see what no others will EVER see, whose ears hear what no others will EVER hear, and whose perspective and feelings will NEVER, ever be duplicated." - TU
"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast or of one thing too exclusively." - Voltaire

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