http://maps.google.com/ ...When you click on one of these steps, you see a (drop-shadowed) floating bubble with a magnified view of the area mentioned in the directions. Explore Google Maps : http://www.google.com/help/maps/tour/

What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you're working on at the same time? Open?Source Project Looking Glass by Sun Microsystems : http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ ...Java technology-based developments will bring 3D windowing capabilities to the desktop.

Vivisimo doesn't use predefined categories. Its software determines them on the fly, depending on the search results. The filing is done through a combination of linguistic and statistical analysis, a method that even works with other languages. A similar process powers Grokker (15-person company), a downloadable program that not only sorts search results (combined from six search engines: Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Wisenut, Teoma, and FAST), into categories but also "maps" the results in a holistic way, showing each category as a colorful circle. Within each circle, subcategories appear as more circles that can be clicked on and zoomed in on. It takes a few minutes to get used to Grokker. But the value of its nonlinear approach quickly becomes clear.

Number Patterns (Fun with Curves & Topology) : http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbfunpatt.htm#TOPIC3

Collage Artists: Mercedes Alabern-Montis (Spanish artist in ceramics & collage), C. K. Bleistein (collage), Robin Chandler (Collage, Computer Imaging, Photography), Denise Enslen (watermedia collage), Dianne Erickson (collage), Karen Hatzigeorgiou ( altered books, collage), Nancy Hunt-Bartek (collage art & keepsakes), Janet Jones (collages), Barry Kite (outrageous photo collage), Collages, Dorothy Mendoza (colorful collage and mixed media), Nancy Egol Nikkal (content-rich site with fine-art collages), Jonathan Talbot (fine art collage), Kathryn Uster (colorful collage), Ashok Varma paper collage

"Genius, unlike virtuosity, is judged by the greatness of results, not by the brilliance of performance." - Vincent Tomas
"I hold to the doctrine that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Thomas Buxton
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J. K. Rowling
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special gift. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-critique, have brought me my ideas." - Albert Einstein
"There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art and knowledge." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The priceless quality of ease is present when one knows one knows." - Edgar Whitney
"Design ideas are more apt to flow from a mind that has been imprinted with rich and varied visual experience." - Jack Stoops
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
"Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play." - Nita Leland
"Creative vision contains a playful quality." - John Briggs
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula le Guin Above from http://www.nitaleland.com/quotations/talentquotes.htm
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells

Search for points (hotels) by clicking on a point on the map. The (database generated lookup) list will show the nearest hotels with calculated distances in km/miles. : http://www.tobook.com/SearchMap.asp?region=Paris
Fracster (fractal generator) generates montage updated nightly. "Click on any image to explore" not working today. http://www.boutell.com/fracster/montage.html

Optical Art is a mathematically-oriented form of (usually) Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, an exaggerated sense of depth, foreground-background confusion, and other visual effects. In a sense all painting is based on tricks of visual perception: using rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to give the impression of light and shadow, and so on. With Optical Art, the rules that the eye applies to makes sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork. M.C. Escher experimented with Optical Art, although not abstract, also deals extensively with various forms of visual tricks and paradoxes. In the 1960's, the term "Op Art" was coined to describe the work of a growing group of abstract painters including Richard Anuszkiewicz .

di·at´·ro·pe : n. [dia + tropos] One who exhibits the urge to head through to the next opportunity

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts". - Albert Einstein

The TAO of Topic Maps; finding the way in the age of infoglut : http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s11-01.html

Tree-branching FlowChart : http://www.flipflopflyin.com/whatif/ (provides small pop-up window on click with same ALT roll-over info, but slightly bigger).

Spatial Brain Research : http://www.spiralsofevolution.nl/en/hersenen.shtml

Diagrams of Mark Lombardi (post-Conceptual reinvention of history painting) : http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/lombardi.html (seen at AGO in '04... spatial syntax of Lombardi's drawings—which map in elegantly visual terms the secret deals and suspect associations of financiers, politicians, corporations, and governments). Also at http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lombardidrawingshow.html

Old but still hosted; http://www.thegreatideas.org/links.html Not listed (yet?) on new one; http://www.thegreatideas.org/resourcelinks.html

Still popular with James Burke fans; http://www.palmersguide.com/jamesburke/burke_words.html

Digital Environmentalism: http://www.bookforum.com/boynton.html (evolving copyright).

But if "where" there was only me there's now you, who must you really be? - The Universe

A Drag'N Drop Flash map to visually test geography knowledge: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html somehow calculates (cumulative) margin of error.

http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/FibonacciZoom/ZoomTest/3LevelZoom4.htm#

A blinding flash of the obvious: "Content sites just present info that anyone could have found themselves (with a search engine and alot of time?)."

Map Visualization and fly-through example : http://www.lvmonorail.com/ride_05_attractions.html# (Flash)

"Drawmap", a software package that lets you draw maps using raw data downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) originally developed for use with the Linux® operating system. : http://www.ttc-cmc.net/~fme/drawmap.html

First RSS feed provided by Feedster ( rendered as HTML using an XSL stylesheet) : http://sjohnson.feedster.net/search.php?q=f-ostgproduct&id=10879&type=rss&nocache=1 This is an Atom formatted XML site feed. It is intended to be viewed in a Newsreader or syndicated to another site (see Blogger Help for more info).

A good Javascript resource : QuirksMode Homepage > (js) Table of Contents : http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html

A single line of JavaScript code monitors referrers ; http://www.truefresco.org/referrers.htm ; allows you to instantly (as soon as someone visits your page through that link) see which website has a link to your site and on which page the link to your site is located as well as which page of your site they linked to. Based on Stephen Downes code.

"The surest path to happiness is in losing yourself in a cause greater than yourself." - unattributable
"The obvious path is not always the right path." - Warren Jung, Arizona hiking guide
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need." - The Rolling Stones
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got." - anonymous
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and raconteur (1921-2004)
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant, American historian (1885-1981)

The Index Map is divided into 15 sheets along lines of folding of Copy a65 of Smith's (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/smith.html) original map. Clicking anywhere on the map brings up a page image of the designated sheet sized to print on 11 x 8 1/2 inch paper (set to print on landscape). : http://www.unh.edu/esci/indexmap.html

Take a look, if you can make it out, at this cartographer's island version of the Baja peninsula. Or at the shape of the New World in general. Perhaps we should keep these images in mind as we try to plot out and piece together what lies ahead. http://www.si.umich.edu/V2010/themap.html But we also chose this image to remind us of the necessity, even when they are inaccurate, of maps.

(Amazon) "Pictures of products in action, with captions - photos of product features ('see the simple controls on this music player'), products in use ('here's how to install the ink cartridge'), product performance ('this camera's macro mode is incredibly sharp') - anything you can imagine to help other shoppers learn about the product!" : http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-images/add-image-to-asin.html/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_add/103-5424249-4443863?%5Fencoding=UTF8&asin=0787903523

METRO MAPS OF THE WORLD : http://www.urbanrail.net/shop/metromaps/metro-maps-of-the-world.htm

"As we may think" - Vannevar Bush 1945, Memex
"As we may see" - Ron Wild 2003, GreatMap : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/ManifestoX.html

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche "
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." - James Rogers
"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." - Harry Millner
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. "- John Schaar
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." - Arab proverb
"Integrity is one of the several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost." - A 1000 Words Worth from Pictures
"Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox. : https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/ for Navigation https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&category=Navigation and Image

One main goal of the INA is to develop a new system of mapping our world -- one that does not rely on geography, but on more meaningful parameters... example at http://www.princeton.edu/~ina/maps/non_geographic/index.html developed by 10x10 creator : http://www.number27.org/ Good infographic examples : http://www.princeton.edu/~ina/infographics/index.html

Antarctica's visual catalogue interface http://ebooks.antarctica.net/cat/Top?ms=10;type=mekko; attempts to lead you to an online version of the book in question. http://ebooks.antarctica.net/help/2dTip.html

Kitware, Inc. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modelling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. http://www.vtk.org/

Current data visualization leaders like Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS), Antarctica Systems Visual Net and Spotfire DecisionSite offer further insight into data by demonstrating relationships that occur through multi-dimensional attributes and statistical patterns. This is an evolving field that shows much promise in the coming years in the enterprise analytics arena. http://webiea.blogspot.com/2004/10/data-visualization-now-you-see.html

History of Cartography Project : http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/broadsht/index.html includes Literary Selections on Cartography.

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures."
"Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don't know where you've been, you don't know where you're going, and you don't know quite where you are."
"I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool."
: http://nxopinion.robertsoninstitute.org/blogs/rcecil/archive/2004/10/21/150.aspx