David Rumsey Map Collection is setting up a Second Life presence (this long blog entry on Not Possible IRL has all the details). Via

(Online puzzle) buckymap-puzzle : a screen-based application of the Buckminster Fuller Projection "Our Spaceship Earth" satellite map.

Combinatorial Tiling Theory : http://epinet.anu.edu.au/mathematics/delaney_dress

Online crime maps directory : http://journalistopia.com/2007/09/06/journalistopias-online-crime-maps-directory/

Map Brightness Adjuster: http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=42.475&lon=-77.172&zoom=4&mix=0.565 (lower right corner).

Map Pixel/Bar Charts

InfoGraphic Map : Via

“Cartographers don’t lie, but they take a position” (The problems of cartography are the same that exist in diplomatic relations).

Digital sculpture given form : http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000174

The formula with which to find an equilateral hexagon's area is 2.5981 times the length of one side squared.

"Labor, even the most humble and the most obscure, if it is well done, tends to beautify and embellish the world." - Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938), poet, author, soldier, political activist, 1920, in Survey of Labor Relations, 1987
"What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity! - Jakob Bernoulli
"It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere Via
"I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears." - Maurits Cornelious Escher (1898-1972)
"The future influences the present just as much as the past." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Gmap Uploader : http://gmapuploader.com/wiki/index.php/How_To_Useis a service that allows you to upload any map or image you want into the Google Maps interface

Online Maps: 50+ Tools and Resources

Algorithmic Mathematical Art : http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t1/cmaci_larcu3.html

PaganMap : http://seapagan.org/pagan-hierarchy/pagan-hierarchy.gif

Discombobulating Sierpiński triangle

Phi, aka the golden ratio (about 1.618), means that "wherever you go there you are". Via

Contractors Needed for Research, IA, Interaction Design : http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/about/careers.html

Via'd by http://technogui.blogspot.com/2008/02/facebook-sur-un-mapminding.html

UN Resolution 242 Revisited for "Road Map" pointers : http://www.israpal.com/

Scarlett Johansson's upcoming album of Tom Waits covers, 'Anywhere I Lay My Head', which features 10 covers (and one original song, 'Song for Jo'), is due for worldwide release in May. Via

"[Work] Something made greater by ourselves and in turn makes us greater." - Maya Angelou, novelist, poet, actress, in Black Scholar.
"If you knew just how scared most people are, you'd be even braver (running faster, jumping higher, and laughing louder)." - The Universe
"Creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness." - Eric Temple Bell
"Bet you could get used to a little more presto, bingo, and ta- da, huh?" - TU
"For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of interface design or to that of map art." - R.B. Wild (after M.C. Escher)

Spatial Aspects of Task-Specific Wayfinding Maps : http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/books/VR99/Freksa.html

Native American Indian Tribe Maps : http://www.flutekey.com/htm/tribemap.htm (click to zoom).

ManureMap (where the amount of phosphorous in manure that must be disposed exceeds the entire assimilative capacity of the county’s farmland) Via http://www.backspace.com/notes/topic/mapping

Hexagonal Graph Paper PDF Generator : http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/

(Animated) Diamond Theorem : http://finitegeometry.org/sc/16/DTanim.html

2D Hyperbolic Tilings : http://epinet.anu.edu.au/mathematics/hyperbolic_tiling

Globe source : http://www.novarico.com/

(Definition) "Triptych"

Institute for Anarchist Studies : http://www.anarchist-studies.org/ (promoting critical scholarship exploring social domination and reconstructive visions of a free society).

Mathematical Art Exhibits : http://www.bridgesmathart.org/amsmaa.html

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." - Dante
"... like a face in a cloud: some see the head of a sheep, some the contours of a ghost while other the backside of a minotaur, all in the same cloud." - Jacques Vache, the Selkirk behind the Surrealist movement
"There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art-lessness." - Via
"It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly great generality is in essence the same as a small and concrete special case." - Paul Halmos in 'I Want To Be a Mathematician'

Covering Maps (of Minimal Surfaces) : http://epinet.anu.edu.au/mathematics/covering_maps

Bach Math : http://finitegeometry.org/sc/4/dd/NetsVersion.html

60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off

We Need a World Visualization Day! : http://eagereyes.org/blog/we-need-a-world-visualization-day.html

CollagedMaps : http://mnheartor.blogspot.com/2007/12/map-artists.html

"Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design" : http://webmail.rogershosting.com/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.backspace.com%2Fnotes%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fx.html (free pdf download)

MashUp = Star Wars + Monty Python

(Second) start page site (mind) map : http://www.mindmaps.moonfruit.com/ (First) Via

Writing the Arabic language

Curator of the works of a little known artist named Sternime : http://jakejakob.blogspot.com/

"The crown of a good disposition is humility." - Arab Proverb
"In the middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, it came into my thought one day, that all this might be a mere chimera of my own, and that this foot might be a print of my own foot." - Robinson Crusoe
"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"The main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from (the main thing is keeping focused on your true end result, not the "hows" of getting there). And there is no more effective end result than happiness." - The Universe
"In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images from Google, Yahoo, SmugMug, Flickr, Photobucket, and DeviantArt. Just type a query and view all the results in the PicLens interactive "3D Wall" (drag, click, and zoom your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience).

Sierpinski Tetrahedron : http://www.public.asu.edu/~starlite/sierpinskitetrahedron.html

Transparent New York : interactive series of layers that allow you to construct your own maps of Manhattan. Via http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/search?q=map

Watching cities in 4D

(Map Show Review) Picturing the World, Around Us : (Maps Have Always Worked On More Than One Level: There's the You-Are-Here That Lets Us See Where We Are and Where We're Going).

Geometry and the Imagination : http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/doyle/mpls/handouts/handouts.html

3D Model Monk

(The talk show you won't see on TV) The Influencers : http://webmail.rogershosting.com/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinfluencers.org explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.

Google Pack is software specifically selected by Google (always free - no trial versions or spyware).

Got 'pie'd by an RSS reader/blog

"Navigation is about more than going from one point to the next. It's about fulfilling one's aspirations." - James Akerman of the Newberry Library in Chicago
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions; as attempts to find out something." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900, German
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." - Kin Hubbard
"A city changes shape, alas, faster than a mortal’s heart." - Baudelaire
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edward Degas

Complex system modelling in Second Life

Golden Ratio Spiral Orbit Trap : http://nylander.wordpress.com/2005/03/03/golden-ratio-spiral-orbit-trap/

MailboxMap : http://www.mailboxmap.com/ (helps you locate blue USPS mailboxes). Via : http://youareherehon.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

Art = Science = Map = Way Cool

Tesselations : http://www.polytess.info/ Via

(Zoom animation) http://www.hadron.org/~hatch/teresa120frames.mpg (created accidentally while playing with a test pattern for a multi-resolution earth browser).

ideaCity : http://www.ideacityonline.com/featured-speakers-2008.html ('Canada's Premiere Meeting of the Minds') is an eclectic gathering of artists, adventurers, authors, cosmologists, doctors, designers, entertainers, filmmakers, inventors, magicians, musicians, scientists and technologists.

Dynamic Image Wall : http://www.bloglines.com/about/wallofimages

(French Blog) "Cartographismes" : http://cartomane.blog.lemonde.fr/

"Whatever interest attaches to your subject-matter must be evoked here and now… The present contains all that there is." - A.N. Whitehead, The Aims of Education, 1929
"This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around." - David Byrne, Life During Wartime
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Anything can be justified." - The Universe
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." - Oscar Levant

Google Map Zoom Animation

Talking Heads Map


Paris RoadNoise Map : http://www.v1.paris.fr/fr/environnement/bruit/carto_jour_nuit/cartobruit.html

Corporate Connection Map : http://flickr.com/photos/zoharma/97214235/sizes/o/

(Project A7, Sub-project) Cartographic Models in Contemporary Art : Dr Susanne Leeb - Research Associate, Free University Berlin. Beginning in the 1950s, the map as a pictorial form and medium of information, as well as cartography as an aesthetic and histological praxis, has undergone a process of artistic re-appropriation, and has been theorized under the concept of mapping. This theoretical rediscovery begins with the redefinition of maps as models for forms of behavior, and as capable of disclosing new modes of experience, as programmatically formulated by the Situationists.

Click on the engineering challenge you think is the most important : http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/default.aspx

Laminated Lattice ; a lattice which is built up of layers of -dimensional lattices in -dimensional space.

The Writing Is On The Apartheid Wall : http://peoplesgeography.com/2008/02/08/the-writing-is-on-the-apartheid-wall/ and More guerilla graffiti in the Holy Land: Israel’s apartheid barrier as a canvas

http://www.theartistprojecttoronto.com/home.php four day exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art (featuring over one hundred juried independent artists).

Listed : "Greatmap, la cartographie du mind mapping'

Recent Sale : LibraryMapPoster in WildMaps on February 12, 2008 sold to anonymous user.

"In information mapping you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - R.B.Wild (after Johann von Neumann)
"The Cubist moment was…a beginning, defining desires which are still unmet." - J. Berger. 'The Moment of Cubism,' 1969
"Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." - Law of Logical Argument
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"The 'easy way' is rarely the glamorous way (unless, of course, you can see the glamour in baby steps and blue jeans)." - The Universe