Automatic Display of Complex Data in SL : This kind of visual display of information can be very important in making it easier to grasp and work with complex systems, and this is just the kind of thing that SecondLife does well. Via : http://www.3pointd.com/?s=map

Interesting Thumb-Grid-Menu : http://www.incident.net/users/gregory/

Knots in the Seven Color Map by Louis H. Kauffman Introduction (PDF) - HTML

The Architecture of Emergent Self-Organizing Maps (PDF) - View as HTML

3D Topicscape : http://www.topicscape.com%20/ is a memory aid, a thinking tool and a "let's get organized" assistant that helps with greatly expanding your mindmapping and concept mapping (in 3D on your computer).

LA Homeless Map : http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/la-homeless-map-knowledge-is-power-219740.php Via

Analogue Art Map Archive : http://analogueartmap.blogspot.com/ Also see the Mud Map Theology Via

Develop a "Rate My Anything" site : http://blog.ning.com/2005/10/rate_my_anything.html#more Also see http://tech.ning.com/

Charting the ‘‘Amnesiac Atlantic’’: Chiastic Cartography and ...
( PDF) alternative cartography of the Atlantic.

GeorgeWMap ------->>>>>

Image-Based Rendering with Occlusions via Cubist Images : http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hanson/papers/vis98.ibr.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

Map Ideas (Maps You Could Make with Photographs) : Photograph all of the trash you pick up as you walk. What does this tell you about the places where you walked? Via and originally inspired by HEADMAP.

Oriental translation of this blog

iconoplast - A person who makes images (or icons). Also see artist, iconogenitor, and iconographer.
iconoclast - Originally, one who destroys sacred religious images (or icons). One who breaks traditions, doctrines, convictions, practices, etc. (Dada artist Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) is the modern archetype of the iconoclast).

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"You can do any damn thing you want, as long as you don't expect somebody else to pick up the pieces." - Via
"If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern." - Ursula K. LeGuin
"If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing it badly." - G.K. Chesterton
"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?" - Oscar Hammerstein II

Self-Organizing Maps (PDF) - View as HTML

Real-time visualization of geographical data Via Oslo Graphics Lab : http://vefur.simula.no/ogl/projects.shtml
JOHN SNOW'S MAP 2 (The Grand Experiment, 1854) Via http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/great_exhibition_a11.html

The Vinland Map : http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm - Some "Finer Points" of the Debate. See contrast and saturation digitally enhanced 2.3MB enlargement

Restaurant Reviews With Yahoo! Maps : http://restaurantreviewswithyahoomaps.ning.com/ Via http://blog.ning.com/2005/11/yahoo_maps_on_ning.html

Mapping Corruption Around the World : http://www2.volstate.edu/kbell/mapping_corruption.htm (146 countries listed from best to worst in terms of perceived corruption of government officials); two hemisphere maps http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/americas.pdf & http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/e_hemis.pdf

Flexy Small Stellated Dodecahedron (00:29 video) "Using Second Life's new (1.10) Flexible Path function I've made a series of geometric shapes which appear to breathe. " Via

Experiment with this download : http://www.aduna-software.com/products/professional_search/autofocus/overview.view

The history of concept / knowledge mapping : http://knowledge-mapping.blogspot.com/2006/11/concept-mapping-today.html

Whence goeth KM? : http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2006/11/whence_goeth_km.php

The Territory Construed as the Map : http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/terrmap.php In search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships.

Gates of Vienna : http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/03/bloody-borders-project.html The Bloody Borders Project

A series of video tutorials on how to create a free videoblog using Blogger is at Freevlog.org.

Google ImageSearch for wild maps

Map Mash-up tool provider : http://www.mashupsoft.com/maps/downloads

GPS and Mapping Along The Trails : http://www.over-land.com/trmaps.html Map links

"The path up and down is one and the same." - Heraclitus
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." - Albert Einstein
"Win small, win early, win often." - Gary Hamel
"Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar." - Jane Hirshfield
"... I'll be Bach." - Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger
"We must cultivate our gardens." -Voltaire

http://hcl.harvard.edu/mercatorglobes/about_the_navigator.html based on the solid geometry of regular polyhedra.

Zooming User Interfaces (ZUIs) where zooming is a fundamental part of the user's interaction with the computer (also known as multiscale interfaces). Click on squares on the right

3D Mind Mapping : http://www.petillant.com/IMG/pdf/3DMindMapping20051.pdf (PDF)

RecreationMaps : http://www.recreationmaps.gov/viewer/ Via http://ajaxredux.com/forum/stories.php?story=05/03/25/8364157

Human FootPrint Layer : http://labs.metacarta.com/wms-c/demo.html (also serves as a tile caching demo).

Hacking Knowledge : http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/hacking-knowledge(77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better).

Hexagonal style isometric environments are popular amongst RPG like games like Age of Wonders and Hexplore, but also used in other game genres like Civilization II. Via

Geomatics Innovation in the Marketplace : http://govm.geospatial-online.com/gssgovm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=389107

The Internet Archive’s Collections Team started this blog : http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/ to highlight new collections and interesting items from the Movies, Audio, and Education collections. Via

Leading Open Source web mapping group : http://www.dmsolutions.ca/sitemap.html

Quality Satellite Image Prints : http://www.satprints.com/

An enlightened search

The 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments

Somebody at Google really likes something I noted last September. Y'er welcome.

Diaspora : http://www.utpjournals.com/diaspora/diaspora.html is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas A. Huxley
"We work to become, not to acquire." - Elbert Hubbard
"As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance." - Hui-neng
"Success is 99 percent failure." - Soichiro Honda
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

Multi-dimensional information visualizations : http://www.otal.umd.edu/Olive/Multi-D.html

del.icio.us / clustrmaps / best.reviews : http://del.icio.us/clustrmaps/best.reviews

Overview and Preview Tools For Navigating the World-Wide Web ( PDF)- View as HTML Early review of site map styles.

How to Make a Buckyball : http://www.webdesign.org/web/3d-graphics/tutorials/how-to-make-a-buckyball.597.html (carbon-60 is the most symmetrical molecule possible).

City and Routing Maps : http://www.thelivingweb.net/maps.html Driving Directions.

Cartographic " PLAY OF INTELLECT" (1450-1570) : http://www.geocities.com/bblank11/geography/cartointellect.html

Honeycomb (geometry) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_(geometry)

6 (six) ■■■■■■ Via
• Six is a natural number.
• 6 = 5 + 1.
• Six has 4 factors: 1, 2, 3, 6.
• Six is the smallest natural number that has exactly 4 distinct factors.
• Six has 3 proper factors: 1, 2, 3.
• Six is the smallest natural number that has exactly 3 distinct proper factors.
• Six is a composite number.
• Six is the smallest perfect number.
• Six is a factorial number.
• Six is a triangular number.
• Six is a hexagonal number.
• A hexagon has 6 sides.
• A hexahedron has 6 faces.
• A carbon (C) atom has 6 protons

Self-Organizing Maps : http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/student-pages/jdouglass/coursework/hyperliterature/soms/ A Tourist's Guide to Neural Network (re)Presentation(s)

Knowledge Discussion Forum : http://groups.google.com/group/gurteen

A podcast : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting is a multimedia file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

The Lucid Dreamers Manual: From the Basics to Beyond (PDF) - View as HTML

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - ?
"I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top." - ?
"Good men usually have around them somebody who expects them to be much better than they have any intention of being." - Unknown, Albert W. Daw Collection
"If you choose to be joyful enough, it's physically impossible to get angry, fret, stew, or worry. And if you choose it often enough, it's physically impossible to be broke, sick, lonely, or confused." - The Universe
"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale Via

iMapping Wikis— Towards a Graphical Environment for Semantic ... (PDF) - View as HTML

Exploratory Search : is a strategy that allow us, with the help of visualisation, to refine our search and reach the goal of our exploration by means of successive iterations (when we don't know precisely what we are looking for, and even what its name is). Via http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=185&lang=2

Tag and view bookmarks from del.icio.us (social bookmarking site); then view in Google Earth and do a virtual tour. Via http://myfavorites.earthlink.net/tags/maps

Second Life Webmap API : http://secondlife.com/developers/mapapi/api-ref.html : SLMap , Marker , MapWindow , Img , Icon , XYPoint , Bounds

Census / Google Maps Mashups : http://maps.webfoot.com/ Via Who are the maps for?

My next step with Google Map API (?)

Polish Mapping : http://www.igipz.pan.pl/ksig/

How To Build an Effective Knowledge Map : http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/How_To_Build_an_Effective_K_Map.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

To the Best of Our Knowledge: http://www.wpr.org/book/061203b.html 'maps and the imagination'; hour 1 Listen!

The classical honeycomb conjecture : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/math.MG/9906042 asserts that any partition of the plane into regions of equal area has perimeter at least that of the regular hexagonal honeycomb tiling. PDF, or Other formats Does not the chamber in the comb have six angles, the same number as the bee has feet? The geometricians prove that this hexagon inscribed in a circular figure encloses the greatest amount of space.

The Thirteen Sacred Geometries : http://spiraloflight.com/proto/sacred_geometry.htm

Google’s Big Idea Challenge : http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-11-29-n28.html

Indexed as "Great Map - Provides extensive mapping information, links, and the related resources. [ATOM] " here : http://blogs.botw.org/Reference/Maps/ under Blog Directory: Reference: Maps:

Peace without Borders (a borderless solution to an endless argument over borders) : http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/01/29/edanand_ed3_.php Hard-liners in each country claim Kashmir wholly for their side. A settlement based on borders will, therefore, redraw the maps without resolving the rage. But a borderless peace has the potential to halt the firing; and then to rally two vast peoples around the project of their own development.

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." - Lewis Carroll
"I do not know what weapons World War III will be fought with. World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - ?
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau Via
"Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away." - Hakuin

PageBull : http://www.pagebull.com/returns (relatively large) screenshots of the pages in question, ordered on a grid, even highlighting the search terms right in the screenshots. (Comments) Via

Mosaic Creator (PDF)

Anxiety Maps : http://emptystreets.net/blog/?page_id=110

Referred by someone in Ireland as "greatest thinkers map" ------------------>

My House Is Not a Point : http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2339&trv=1
why has the use of multipatch not taken off?

First There Was the Grid : http://secondlife.blogs.com/prompt/2006/06/first_there_was.html "...hex grids lost out to a Cartesian grid because we didn't have the resources to tackle problems that weren't absolutely necessary, and the benefits of a non-hyperlinked hex grid over a non-hyperlinked regular grid are marginal."

Research /Mapping listing at http://www.metaportaldermedienpolemik.net/wiki/Research/Mapping

Visual Literacy Resources : http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/artdesign/visuallit/

The Great Ideas Program : http://www.thegreatideas.org/gipi.html ...insightful Introductions and Reading Guides to each of the works. Each volume also has an important Preface and Foreword, written by Adler and outstanding scholars in their respective fields. Each reading has its own self-testing questions with answers at the back of the book. Via

Belief Systems and Reality Maps : http://www.energygrid.com/mind/2004/11ap-realitymaps.html

MoboVivo : http://www.mobovivo.com/index.html Download TV shows and video to your
computer, laptop and iPod.

Carbonite : You can back up any or all of the files on your PC, and it’s still only $5 a month. Via

Don’t be a 'one-innovation wonder' : http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/EnterpriseDetails.asp?a=247

Now side-barred at : http://gigaswarm.blogspot.com/

Global Artists for Peace : http://outofsight.co.nz/Dale/peace.htm

Remove your listing from the most popular online telephone directories

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome
"Always remember that you're unique, just like everybody else." - Anonymous
"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart." - Julien Green
"Places change us; in different locations we become other people." - J. Gerald Kennedy
"Perhaps the very best thing that happens to souls who are suddenly overwhelmed by torrents of financial abundance, is that they start working simply for the fun of it. Hey, you can already do that!, I got your back." - The Universe

Here is ...
Great Map using MapLib facility

The Graph of the Truncated Icosahedron and the Last Letter of Galois (PDF) - View as HTML

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html : uses Google's "related sites" feature to show what site is connected to each other. Via

You can now embed some NASA map servers into your own Swing apps: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2006/10/nasa_maps_in_yo.html using the JXMapViewer component in SwingX-WS.

Maps of European cities : http://www.welcome-2-europe.com/Maps_and_Views.html

Image forming method (US Patent) : http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6022673-description.html (
... shape composed of normal crystal such as cube, octahedron or tetradecahedron and a particle having plate-like shape of hexagon). Issued on February 8, 2000

Center for Knowledge Societies : http://www.cks.in/html/ (Bangalore, India) research and design practice that works in the area of media and technology. It uses variety of innovative social research tools, to understand user needs and practices to fine tune existing products and services and conceptualize altogether new technologies.

A Cartoon Epistemology : http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html An informal cartoon presentation of the central epistemological debate between naive realism and representationalism. Via http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/

New paradigm of holistic science : holistic science and systems theory ... (the systems approach or 'structuralism' ).

America’s official Tall Ships® : http://tallshipschallenge.wordpress.com/

Multi-step painting tutorial via http://drawn.ca/

The poem "Ithaca" by the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is recited by Sean Connery :
http://www.engelen.demon.nl/ithaca.htm (1 track CD performed by Vangelis); " ...May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time...".

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." - Anonymous
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine Via http://www.freemaninstitute.com/quotes.htm
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato, The Republic. Book II.
"We are all vulnerable to the unexplored." - Talmud
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. "- Alan Alda