Symmetry, space, stars and C ( PDF) - View as HTML "...most delightful property lies in the inherent charisma which arises from its elegantly simple and highly symmetric structure that is quite unlike any other."

Hex Grids : http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thinlines/hexmaps/index.html

"The Devil’s Graveyards Around the World" : http://www.deepinfo.com/WorldGrid.htm plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas

MAP OF THE GREAT WALLS AROUND BEIJING : http://www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/greatwallmap.htm

CrackMap : http://www.chicagocrime.org/types/narcotics/172/ from the freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago. Via http://www.urbancartography.com/technology/index.html

IPmap : http://www.oceantomo.com/PDFs/ot300/ot300_grid.pdf ( Ocean Tomo 300™ Patent Index) Member List (by company)

London: A Life in Maps Blog : http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/londoninmaps/ launched as a forum for discussing the exhibition of the same name currently on at the British Library.

9 to 5 Paintings : http://ni9e.com/9to5paintings.php are a visual representation of your daily computing routines (emails, internet browsing, and report writing).

Dia: http://hans.breuer.org/dia/ is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits (also evolving possibiliities to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape). [via DIA Home Page]

Good blogging resources sidebarred : http://anothershellyblog.blogspot.com/

Firefox flaw lets attackers steal passwords Via

Hexxagon ( game played like Othello or Reversi: strategy games) Via

First blog visitor from United Nations, 1st Ave. and 42nd St. NY, NY

Picked up by this 'reblog' reader

Life of Gandhi : video Intro to Non-violence (1946-1947, Part 12 of 14), from the whole 5 hr series.

"If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space." - Anonymous
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true." - William Ralph Inge
"In a time of darkness the eye begins to see." - Theodore Roethke
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence
"If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found." - Unknown

Information Visualization: Principles, Promise, and Pragmatics ... ( Powerpoint) - View as HTML (Tree Visualization Approaches)

Several Hex-related links

London: A Life in Google Maps : http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/exhibition.html (virtual exhibition)

Interactive Map of Macroeconomics : http://www.economicswebinstitute.org/essays/is-lm2.htm Via http://thinkingonthemargin.blogspot.com/2006/08/interactive-map-of-macroeconomics.html

Magic Lens Interface Project : http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/MagicLenses/ (old PARC) Via http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36025

Build your Site Map online : http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Also Sitemaps Pal is at http://www.sitemapspal.com/ , and Free Sitemap Generator's at http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/ .

A complete chapter from the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth : http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2060427,00.asp (a detailed explanation on building your own community site through Google Maps). Via http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/2147-.html

Bibliography of Map Projections (comprehensive 200 page pdf)

Google Panoramas : http://www.eznom.net/s5/panoramas/panoramas.php hosts a collection of panoramic virtual reality scenes (on a Google Map interface).

TeaMap : http://www.teamap.com/

Interactive Map of Outland : http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/outlandmap.html (NOT using GoogleMaps).

Windows Vista : the good, the bad and the ugly

The Most Insane Pixel Art You'll Ever See... : http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/ Via

GRID is a program born to make life easier for all who use hexagon maps. Included are some ready settings, but it's easy to create new ones from scratch. Download : Grid (220kb)

Independent Movie Making Lifts The Lid On America's Foreign Policy In The Middle East: Breakdown - Video Excerpts

One way to do a thorough image search

"When imagination is celebrated, innovation thrives." - dwf
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." - Mohandas K. Ghandi
"Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning 'bad hunter'." - Anonymous
"There is less to this than meets the eye." - T. Bankhead
"But what ... is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, (1968, commenting on the microchip).
"The lack of abundance in one's life is not a cause, but an effect, of other thoughts on the subjects of life, work, and happiness." - TU

Mapnik : http://mapnik.org/ Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Examples : Vancouver, BC
Oxford, UK

Cartography Workshop : http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarhaus/UnivChicago/1ndex.html

2learn.ca eLearning provider

A visual/spatial presentation of survey results : http://www.thesurveys.org/

Fibonacci's Life and Times : http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html

Metamorphosis and Place : Via (Conference)

(#8 of) Ten Most Important Technologies for Humanity : http://downloads.truthpublishing.com/thetenmostimportantemergingtechnologiesforhumanity.zip
Via http://www.truthpublishing.com/Top10tech.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/james-burke-science-historian seems to include all of wikipedia postings +

One of the earliest alternative cartography bloggers : http://www.filterfine.com/links/archives/cartography/index.html gone silent over past year (?).

South Park discussing the important questions raised by the Danish Cartoon controversy in a humorous way : http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/04/cartoon_wars.html

Now side-barred as 'BLOGS+WEBS / CARTOGRAFIAS GLOCALES' : http://cartografiaurbana.blogspot.com/

Very targeted search by someone in Africa(?) accessing the UK version of Google(?) via saix.net

Sony digital camera recall

"A man with an open mind travels on the path of opportunity." - dwf
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Starr Jordan
"For you shall walk by faith and not by sight." - II Corinthian 5:7 Via
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers." - Erich Fromm
"Where there is passion, there is hope." - W. Wolfensberger

Grid computing 'Mappa mundi' unveiled : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/ppa-gc111506.php

(Hex) Modeling Influenza Viral Dynamics in Tissue (PDF) - View as HTML

Topic Maps for repositories : http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s29-04.html

Geodesic Discrete Global Grid Systems (PDF) - View as HTML

Nintendo WiiSeeker : http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/11/find-nintendo-wii-with-google-maps.html#links (find the closest Wii source with Google Maps). Via Google Maps Mania

How do they accomplish starting a map as a sphere, & then zoom in until they are on a flat map without stretching & distorting the edges? Via

Tiled : http://mapeditor.org/ a generic tile map editor.

Interactive Map of Downtown L.A. : http://dcbid.cartifactmaps.com/

Direction to Makkah : http://www.amislam.com/qiblah.htm

Creative Visualization : Best in Show. Via http://del.icio.us/TomC/infographics

How to make your own hexagon tessellation - some fun

Necker Cube : http://dogfeathers.com/java/necker.html (animated using Java). When a stick cube is drawn in two dimensions, it can be perceived as a three dimensional cube from two different perspectives.

“Second Life is Web 2.0 more than anything else” (Why Second Life Is Stunning) Via

Resistant Maps : http://neural.it/projects/rm/ artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory' looks to cartography, that medium long problematized by postmodern scholars, for answers to questions about shifting balances of agency. Taking as its premise the idea that the 'representation of territory holds a historical role in the privileges of power,' participants will consider the role of psychogeography, new locative media devices, and other means of redrawing lines in reclaiming contested space.

The Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index represents a diversified portfolio of 300 companies that own the most valuable patents relative to their book value. Via

"When in doubt, dot." : http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit11-10-06.asp

"Natural" and "artificial" fools : http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/fools.html

"Canada" Designs on T-Shirts and Gifts : http://www.cafepress.com/buy/canada?CMP=EMC_20061121canada

"When you have that really big, disruptive, amazing, incredible, world-changing idea, it should not mark the end of your innovation process. Rather, it should mark the beginning." - Jeffrey Baumgartner
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot
"Courage is choosing to go beyond where the eye can see." - dwf
"Art should not be different from life, but an act within life. Like all life, with its accidents and variety and disorder and only momentary beauty." - John Cage
"Now that I have proven that an individual can be world-effective while eschewing either money or political advantage-making, I do my best to discourage others from taking patents, which almost never `pay-off' to the inventor." - R. Buckminister Fuller ( Critical Path p. 149) Via

MapLib.net : http://www.maplib.net/ turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map and makes it zoomable & draggable; MiddleEarth Map , GroundZero , PhotoMosaic , MosaicXL , FakeMosaic ...
+ Create geographical maps like Google Maps instantly (example)
+ Show large pictures with zoomable and draggable viewing experience (example)
+ Exhibit product pictures with annotations by the owner (example)
+ Share pictures and let visitors represent annotations on them (example)

VISUALIZING RELATIONSHIP NETWORKS : http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/visrel.php

The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa map : http://www.tagzania.com/item/29985 ( Tagzania) The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs of the Pharaonic funeral cult.

Second Life Webmap API : http://secondlife.com/developers/mapapi/ allows you to embed Second Life Maps onto your web pages.

The Vega Science Trust : http://www.vega.org.uk/ An Independent Broadcaster of Informed Scientific Visual and Audio Media

Linked by fellow critical cartographers, space invaders, mapping aficionados, friends and foes of all stripes at the 'counter-cartographies collective' : http://www-dev.ibiblio.org/3cups/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=33 to construct mappings that refigure relations in ways that render alternative worlds; New Cartographies of the Borderlands

MiddleEastMaps Via : http://www.corkpsc.org/db.php?tid=23 ( documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist). Cartoons

.. one of the most logical shapes for a geometric world would be a truncated icosahedron (soccer ball) or a regular isocahedron (20 sides, all equilateral triangles)... ie; ertainly not an oblate spheroid... Via

oook.info/mt/ (aspires to be a connoisseur of context, a metasource, a serendib).

Manufactured Landscapes : http://www.clubvibes.com/magazine/article.asp?id=2813 (movie)

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Only those who are willing to risk all, will know the true limits of the possible."- dwf
"Fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life's path." - Kahlil Gibran
"Little else fires up the old turbines of manifestation like gratitude given in advance." - TU
"He conquers who endures." - Persius
"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." - Chinese Proverb

Doormat Navigation : http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=doormat (Nothing important is hidden, and all options in the doormat are accessible in one click).

IP Locator Based on Google Maps : http://www.blueforge.org/map/ Via http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/newsdetails.php?itemid=12

Visual Brainstorming Index : http://www.csaimages.com/visual.asp Via http://www.spellboundblog.com/2006/11/21/amazing-visual-tools/

Mapping London : http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200032 Also Peter Barber on “London: A Life in Maps”; More About “London: A Life in Maps”; London: A Life in Maps. Via : http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/

Emotional Mapquest : http://scaryparent.blogspot.com/2006/11/emotional-mapquest.html Via http://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast/2006/11/emotional_mapqu.html

(3D) WIRE AND COLUMN MODELING (PDF) - HTML

Digital mapping system (patent) : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20050270311.html
View PDF Images , View patents that cite this patent , Click for automatic bibliography generation

Mulit-media researcher : http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~anup//

Morse Code Generator : via http://www.ablestable.com/resources/tools-hub.html

Searched by someone at ST. VINCENT HOSPITAL, 20 Worchester Center, WORCHESTER MA

Breaking the Law in the West Bank : http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=61&fld=191&docid=2024 - The Private Land Report - Nov. 2006 Click here to go to the interactive map.

Hex Astrology : http://www.gaiamind.com/Jerusalem.html

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
"Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves." - Edward Bach
"The right to be left alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men." - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"Being endowed be nature with a sophisticated and subtle disposition, he took pleasure in nothing save in investigating difficult and impossible questions of perspective ..." - said of Italian master Paolo Uccello Via

Top ten (non-Google) map innovations : http://www.lifehacker.com/software/maps/technophilia-top-ten-nongoogle-map-innovations-211149.php Via http://del.icio.us/ujaval

Billboard Map : http://www.outdooradnet.com/default.aspx (in California). Via

Like : http://www.like.com a visual search engine (in alpha) that allows you to shop visually instead of by keyword. This is a meta-search, with items available from Amazon, Zappos, Lands’ End, and several other merchants.

PostItBoard WPF : http://xamlxaml.com/2006/10/05/postitboard-update-for-net-30-rc1/
add photo http://xamlxaml.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/postitboard_3.jpg

Interactive Media Division Weblog : http://interactive.usc.edu/

Creativity in Exploration: A Quotation Database Approach ( PDF)

Digital map generator and display system : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5140532.html
(patent) View PDF Images , View patents that cite this patent , Click for automatic bibliography generation

GamesOnGoogleMaps : http://moloko.itc.it/trustmetricswiki/moin.cgi/GamesOnGoogleMaps Via http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/24/gaming-with-google-maps/

KFC's logo first to be seen from space : http://michaelcastellon.blogspot.com/2006/11/kfcs-logo-first-to-be-seen-from-space.html is not as impressive as natural? Indian with iPod : http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/2006/11/indian-with-ipod.html

JavaScript Framework : http://mootools.net/ Via http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/2299/another-great-javascript-library

Apparently added to this guy's private network : http://del.icio.us/alsaeed

Financials in the LBS Sector : http://lbs.gpsworld.com/gpslbs/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=386132

Muslims Take Cartoon Case to UN’s "Allah" Commission : http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/924

"Judging yourself for what you haven't yet accomplished, is like taking rocket fuel from the rocket so that it might fly higher." - The Universe
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." - Ehrlich's Rule
"... the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.” - Daniel Bell
"We're all going down the same road in different directions." - Farber's Third Law