30 May 2005

Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. : http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/

Adjust the display's view, including automatic zooming by holding down the left mouse button on the background of the display and dragging. : http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/demos-autozoom.html Akso nice radial map: http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/demos-radial.html Using this toolkit, developers can create responsive, animated graphical interfaces for visualizing, exploring, and manipulating these various forms of data. prefuse is written in the Java programming language using the Java2D graphics library and is designed to integrate with any application written using the Java Swing user interface library.

Examples of non-statistical visual explanations, visual thinking, and just plain fun: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/

Concept-mapping idea goes global as educational tool: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050530.gtcmapsmay30/BNStory/Technology/

"And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA ( downloaded onto her own iPod)." : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/arts/design/28podc.html

Here is a very high resolution satellite image of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" in Central Park. "From 423 miles in space moving over the Earth in a north-to-south orbit at 17,000 mph, this perspective showcases the size and scope of the 23-mile-long project." Taken opening day, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. Also see flickr tag: gates (of course). : http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/spacepics/central_park_12Feb05.jpg

Interactive (Flash) in-depth study of the Gospels : http://thirteensquares.com/gospelspectrum/index_flash_itp.html

Fonts (free) : http://simplythebest.net/fonts/old_fashioned_fonts.html ( Home > Free fonts > Old fashioned fonts )

PESKY PATENT TROLLS : http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1115370308794

Bookmark: http://www.ist-ec.org/ and check periodically for new material and information on upcomingevents promoted by IST-EC 2 as well as funding resources available through NSERC, IRAP,ITCan and others.

"A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have its own voice. It is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to look: discover this, reexamine that, put one thing in relation to another, orient yourself, begin here...Sometimes a map speaks in terms of physical geography, but just as often it muses on the jagged terrain of the heart, the distant vistas of memory, or the fantastic landscapes of dreams." from http://www.siliconyogi.com/mylibrary/doc/Library-999.htm#item0

"Be happy for an instant. This instant, it's your life ". - Omar Khayam.
''There is nothing to wait for and nothing to reach for. We are there. We are already there. We have always been there. '' - Pierre Levy
"Have you also ever wanted something so badly that all your wishing, hoping and praying kept you from seeing that you had it all along?" - The Universe

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