24 May 2007

A Quick Flexagon Survey (PDF) - HTML (fold it around into a hexagon, and secure the ends to get a ring of nine) http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/comun/gonafle/node1.html

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/ blog of Google Earth & Maps Team.

"e-discovery" = finding and managing electronically stored information (ESI)

G-Map pedometer site

iDiscover Magazine discusses a series of maps of the blogosphere (created by Matthew Hurst).

HE XA GO NS : http://www.cienciateca.com/stshexag.html in a packed World

The Mathematics of Paper Folding : http://www.theiff.org/lectures/04p.html

Added to Web Biennial 2007 Pavillion Six : http://webbiennial.org/galleries/g4.htm

Now tagged by 50 delicio.us

Main map apparently discussed here : http://www.nyx.cz/index.php?l=topic;id=9189;n=59a4

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." - Peter Benchley
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays, First Series: Self-Reliance)
"Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?" - Arthur C. Clarke
"We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were." - Natasha Jasefowitz

23 May 2007

Image Tricks That Make You Look Good (PDF)

Web-Based Instant Messengers : A Mini-Guide

Hacking Xconq Graphics Via

Folding Snowflake : http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/images/flakes/origami-inst.gif Via

Hex Spirals : http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~jaszczak/Iminerals/im.html

Hand drawn maps from Flickr fan (?)

Ideas for Maps WITHout Borders presentation

Cooridinates Tattoo Via

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace." - Via
"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns." - Anonymous
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish." - Warren Bennis
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." - Michelangelo

22 May 2007

Imagining the Tenth Dimension (flash-animated information graphic) to understand why "String Theory" has ten dimensions and what they are.

Discover Magazine discusses maps of the blogosphere (created by Matthew Hurst).

Recent Trends in the History of Cartography : http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesb/no6/b6.pdf A Selective, Annotated Bibliography

"One Land Two Systems" winners : An Existence of Exile, Spatial Justice, and Confluence.
In the idea category four honorable mentions were given; Ein Hud Underground, Connective Art, a study in seamless de-territorialization http://www.onelandtwosystems.com/person-201.3333-en.html , Realizing Connexion , and Red-blooded Carpet.

RSS (explained in Plain English) : video

Discombobulating Sierpiński triangle

Web 2.0 Name Generator

The Green Line (artist Francis Alÿs )

Now 'Linked in" : http://www.linkedin.com/home?trk=tab_h to experience social networking benefits.

"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves." - Thomas Merton
"Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction." - Oliver Prince Smith Via
"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton
"All dreams come with built-in challenges, and all challenges come with built-in dreams." - The Universe
"Dadaism was very political in a way which most art these days is not. " - Bill Kenny Via

04 May 2007

QuadrantZooming Example : http://www.fractal-recursions.com/zoom1195/img134121.html (Click on a quadrant to zoom in 6 more levels; click an arrow to move around the image at the current zoom).

My-Mapping Houston's red light cameras

Finding local bloggers (that have already geo-located themselves here).

Genomic Art : Practitioners / Links

101 Ways To Improve Your Digital Photography

MapMonster Movie

Sidebarred under 'crítica y acción' : http://hipercroquis.wordpress.com/

Web translation site : http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Comments: # posted by MMM (coment_arte) : 5:01 PM, May 03, 2007 "Hola! No sabía que estarías en Santa Perpetua. He hablado hoy con Victor Lobo en el concierto de la Sala d'Art Jove... Podrías anunciarlo en el blog!"= "Hello! It did not know that you would be in Santa Perpetua. I have spoken today with Victor Wolf in the concert of the Room d'Art Jove... You could announce it in blog!" ????????? confusing the author of http://www.frre.org/ with me.

"Why do you produce paintings, sculptures and animations, as well as drawings? ... Because I can." - Ben S.
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs." - Via
"Fortune favours the fool." - Desiderius Erasmus
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. (If you love what you are doing, you'll be successful.)" - Albert Schweitzer
"Destinations, dreams and end results, while helpful, handy, and often quite dandy, are all still 'hows' when it comes to happiness." - The Universe

03 May 2007

Iterated Function Systems : Collage Theorem (it is possible to begin with the shape and determine a dynamical system whose attractor looks like the shape).

Map of Online Communities : http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png (preorder as a poster.) Via --------->>>>>>>

James Burke's Knowledge Web (10 minute video overview) Via

Cartography links : http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/may07.shtml

desire line (di.ZYR lyn) n. An informal path that pedestrians prefer to take to get from one location to another rather than using a sidewalk or other official route. The Word Spy Via

'Map Interface' Image Search

New Cartography 01 (movie)

BookMarked : http://www.magnetbox.com/?p=2524 Great Map (tags: information design map visualization weblog)

"The further back I look, the further forward I can see." - Winston Churchill
"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself." - Epicurus
"The more one hurries, the less time they have." - The Universe
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been." - Alan Alda

02 May 2007

PDMarker : http://www.pixeldevelopment.com/pdmarker.asp is "a Javascript library that extends the Google Maps API, making it easier to customize marker behaviour". Examples and a demo are included. Via

The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science : help the viewer better understand by presenting many perspectives of the subject, rather than presenting one singular perspective.

Class HexGridFactory : http://styx.davisor.com/doc/api/com/davisor/graphics/chart/HexGridFactory.html

Google 3D Warehouse : database of 3D objects that people have built using Sketchup (and can then be viewed in relation on a Google Map or inside Google Earth).

Mountain Peak Sketches : http://www.heywhatsthat.com/

Global Arms Trade Map : http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2006/10/maps-maps-maps_03.html

Example blog incorporating GoogleReader sidebar : http://blog.makemaps.net/about/

Can He Get There From Here? (article) : devoted his weekends and evenings to studying old transit maps in an effort to produce one of his own.

Map Animation / Movie Via

http://greatmap.blogspot.com/ url has been saved by 48 people; common tags ( cloud list ) : 24maps , 15blog , 13visualization , 12design , 12map , 8mapping , 7blogs , 6cartography , 6gis , 3geography , 3graphics , 2history , 2interesting , 2mind , 2mindmapping , 2place , 2trends , 2visualisation , 2web , 2web2.0
Would anyone at Who Owns 207.46.169.60? care that employees at Who Is msnbc.com? use Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 ?

"The artistically-active get attracted and caught on art and redirect their procreative energy." - Robert Genn
"I didn't mean it when I said I didn't mean it." - Jan Nordgreen
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A.A. Milne
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." - William F. Scolavino

01 May 2007

Satellite map images with missing or unclear data : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_blurred_out_on_Google_Maps

Herodotus GIS Author : http://www.herodotus.biz/v3/GIS_Products.html is an advanced GUI application for creating, viewing, importing and exporting GIS data. Author is ideal for managing large volumes of data for custom GIS applications.

KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API March 2007.

Creating a hexagon grid layout : for a hexagon JPanel in Java (Discussion)

What a typical RSS reader picks-up (diagrams at full size)

(The now-classic book) Metaphors We Live By : changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind.

GI-Days 2007 : http://www.edparsons.com/?p=454 - Young Researchers Forum announced.

Map tags : http://delicious.com/rgreco/maps?setcount=50

Space Blindness : is more common than people may realize.

The Sad Tale of a Bolivian Cartographer (movie)

Sidebarred here : http://comentarte.blogspot.com/

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere." - W.S. Anglin
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"To fill the hour---that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Answer this question wrong: Which of the two numbers 68 and 42 is not divisible by two?"