29 April 2005

Multimap ( http://www.webmapper.net/maps/dhtml/ discusses how http://www.iandodd.comre-wrote the code for the lens to work as an information filter; moving the lens over the map, the lens would show the aerial photo as a transparent layer on top of the map at the same scale.) http://www.mappy.com/ Mappy has taken this feature even further. Instead of having the aerial photo only show up as a transparent layer when moving a lens over the map, the full map view is taken up by either the map or imagery. A slider widget
allows users to change the transparency of the map layer for the aerial photo to appear. The lettering, such as street names, remains visible at all times. All in all, it's a really neat trick to make the transition between map and imagery more subtle. From http://www.webmapper.net/archives/2005/04/

Directional Idioms (including on the warpath, primrose path, at http://www.bartleby.com/59/4/) and proverbs (including All roads lead to Rome, There’s more than one way to skin a cat, Where there’s a will, there’s a way, You can’t go home again, Two wrongs don’t make a right, Out of sight, out of mind, The road to hell is paved with good intentions, All’s well that ends well, etc. at http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/index.html ).
"Sic transit gloria mundi" (SIK TRAN-sit GLAWR-ee-uh MOON-dee) Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

From http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cleary/quotes.html :
"You get an A not for effort but for results, and that it's almost always easier to start from a good partial solution than from nothing at all. " - ?
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery." - James Joyce
"Whenever you fall, pick something up." - Oswald Avery
"It's not the load that breaks you down - its the way you carry it." -
"The road to success is always under construction." -
"No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination." - Ben Gaye III
"Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more." - Cowper
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.- Christian Bovee
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."- Bertrand Russell
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"The first time anything is done, it's done by amateurs." - Art Buck
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each man must discover his own way." - J. Sartre
"There is always a better way." - Thomas Edison

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