(Mapping Service) http://www.schmap.com/picks : browse opinions for trending local restaurants and bars from fellow Twitter users.

(Map Curators’ Group Workshop) From paper to screen: Putting maps on the web

Settlement Maps

(Wiki) Map Room - Indiana Jones

Survival of Information Timeline : Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media (From Cave Paintings to the Internet)

Barriers to knowledge transfer

Amazon Secretly Removes "1984" From the Kindle

The great Renaissance art cover-up : creating artworks purely to hide and cover over secret paintings.

Sculpture / Installation

(Definition) "dual graph" of a given planar graph G is a graph which has a vertex for each plane region of G, and an edge for each edge in G joining two neighboring regions, for a certain embedding of G.

"The mind loves labels because it then “thinks” it “knows”". - mindmapdrawer
"If you can just remember where this is all going, no road will be too bumpy, no night will be too lonely, and no price will seem too great." - The Universe
"There are one hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground." - Rumi
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
"We do our best work when we don’t know what we’re doing." - John Cage

Mapping the fourth plinth : Can you do something with this data? Post your visualisations and mash-ups on Flickr group

Twittered "Maps" : http://tweetmeme.com/search/media/image?q=%23map

(Tetrahedron) Merkaba Star

Mapping the human brain "connectome"

Inforgraphic : http://stripgenerator.com/

(Book by Glaser published in 2008 and of course designed by him too) uses his own drawings to show how art can be a form of meditation. Via


Science Tattoos (gallery)


(Collaboration Opportunity) Metal Arts Guild

(XKCD Comic Strip) 'Google Maps Have Hired Me'

YYYs - Heads Will Roll (remix)

"... a bold early statement is often key to a stronger work. Later and lesser strokes become just grace-notes to the greater theme. We're noticing how valuable are the early gestures--cursory, generous, thick and large--the strong and wrong." - Robert Genn
"This is the beginning of the second half." - Keith Richards, 1989
"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven." -Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
"Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives." - Carlos Casteneda
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." - Charles Baudelaire

Leonard Cohen Interactive Map Via : http://www.geist.com/stories/how-i-finally-met-leonard-cohen

Cahill’s Butterfly Map vs. Fuller’s Dymaxion Projection

Safety Graphic Fun

Tetrahedral Symmetry

The Day in 100 Seconds

Walking in My Mind explores the inner workings of the artist's imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art.

Misunderstandings around Non-Attachment

(Music) http://www.playingforchange.com/

(Definition) "wenn schon, denn schon" ; (German) "if you're going to do it, go the whole hog". Via

First Twitter reference from this engineer in Bangalore of http://bit.ly/B5p0P

"We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." - Jean Paul Sartre
"Is mapping addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating." - R.B.Wild (after Richard Neville)
"The Cosmos is an utterly malleable experience that feeds back to us what we want to perceive." - Chris Ladue
"If there’s a place you got to go, I’m the one you need to know...I’m the Map, I’m the Map!" - Dora the Explorer
"I don't recommend asking for what you can have, or even for what you can give, nearly as much as I recommend asking for what else you can know. Because there is always more you can know, and knowing it will radically increase all you can have and give." - The Universe

Top 25 Blogs in GIS, GeoWeb and Cartography

4D™ approach to solving complex problems : Facilitation, Visualisation, Contextual Analysis and Information Design

Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning Workshops

Leadership Map

Spreadsheet Art

Emmanuel Radnitzky = Man Ray

SPONTANEITY IN JAPANESE ART

How to Dress Like an Astronaut

(Definition) "the cake is a lie" : your promised reward is merely a fictitious motivator.

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

“I want to put a ding in the universe.” - Steve Jobs
"Be still, be calm, and listen. You'll find there's nowhere you can't go, no challenge you can't master, and no reason whatsoever that you can't have it all." - TU
"People carried away by their own importance seldom have far to walk back." - The Irish Digest
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing." - Maria Mitchell
"A fool who persists in his folly eventually becomes wise." - Taoist wisdom via Alan Watts

Navigating Maps

Neighbourhood Boundaries : uses the Flickr shapefiles to show you where the world thinks its neighbours are. More.

InfoGraphic / Timeline Resume

The Bacon Flowchart Via

http://www.mediacloud.org/ extracts the substantive text from the downloaded story content (minus the ads, navigation, comments, etc) and associates a set of tags with each story based on that extracted text. Via

Causes of Color

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/

Paper Sculptures

How do you go from struggling, emerging or even semi-established artist to selling a complete show for $198 million?

(Definition) "Strong and Wrong" ; it's better to blow a strong note off key than to produce a wimpy one that doesn't get noticed (term currently used by some New York musicians). Via

"Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well. Only 20 years earlier." - Banksy
"Childhood is a branch of cartography," - Michael Chabon (in The New York Review of Books) Via
"In fact he spent a lifetime morphing himself to the point of denying he was ever called anything but Raw'n Wild." - Raw N. Wild
"Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down with everbody else." - Charles Holloway, in 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'
"These maps are nothing but the territory." - Via

The original (?) cartogram paper

Latest Map on H1N1 ("Swine Flu")

(Book) Handbook Of The Navigator

Crappygraphs proves graphs don't have to be so functional (but can actually be fun).

How to Develop Your Visualization Skill

Elvis Costello's talent for reinvention

How Artists can use Social Media to sell artwork

Collage Cards

SQUARE FOOT Show : http://www.awolgallery.com/square_foot/index.php

Young audiences have "very little interest in jazz"

"I had in mind to do something big, and I did it." - Simon Rhodia Via
"A blank page is a wonderful curiosity, proposing all sorts of mischief and magic." - Andrew Bee
"Being famous to 15 people is a huge advantage if they are the right 15 people." - Brian Oberkirch
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." - Marston Bates
"There's no such thing as an undiscovered genius." - Robert Genn

(Video) Building Better User Interfaces

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Wheel

X-Men Relationship Map Giant full-res version HERE ( for all the characters in the universe) Via

A short enquiry into the origins of the term “neogeography”. [PDF]

(Video) Al Franken can draw a map of the contiguous United States in under two minutes! (skip ahead to approximately 6:30 where you can view his "Stupid Human Trick")

(Slideshow) The Pattern That Connects...

Problems of Regional Definition and Colonial/National Boundaries

(Flickr Group) Map-Themed Signs & Graphics

Wall-painted animation

The Art of Being an Artist : http://www.artadvice.com/advice/index.php

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind." - Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001)
"What other people think about you, is none of your business." - Unknown Via
"Sports is like a war without the killing." - Ted Turner
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Kenneth Galbraith