NESTOR The Web Browser and Cartographer : http://www.gate.cnrs.fr/~zeiliger/nestor.htm promotes "constructivist navigation" by drawing interactive webmaps while you are surfing the Web. The maps provide a visual context so you always know "where you are" and "where you come from" !

S&P500 Map : http://geoindex.nabeelazar.com/index.php The weekly returns of the S&P 500 constituent companies are indicated by an up or down arrow, located at the center of the city in which each company is headquartered.

Map Bureau : http://www.mapbureau.com/ "Mapping for the rest of us ".

LECTURE NOTES FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION : sense, select, and perceive light and color eye, retina, and the brain visual cues: color, form, depth, and movement visual theories visual persuasion media stereotypes visual analysis perspectives typography graphic design informational graphics cartoons photography motion pictures television and video computers world wide web the more you know; the more you see

COMPARING A TEXTUAL INTERFACE, VIRTUAL PATHS INTERFACE, AND ICONIC : http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/~jtbiehl/publications/biehl-masters-04.pdf or View as HTML

The Search for Knowledge (Chapter Eight of 'The Age of Intelligent Machines', : by
Raymond Kurzweil ) : http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0311.html?

"In enterprises, you connect the dots by using a map as an interface to databases and to familiar applications...." : http://www.themanufacturer.com/us/detail.html?contents_id=3835

Knowledge Map (linked) http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/knowledge/knowledge_typology.html -->

ShakeMap : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/shakemap/sc/shake/14204720/intensity.html to see maps for the most recent earthquakes.

Performative mapping : http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2004/03/mapping_cardiff.html an exercise in mapping absence of access; reimagine cartographic activity through encounters with artistic and performance based work'.

Don Quixote movie review : http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/DonQuixote.htm

"To replace a map (or a part of the map) that isn't serving you very well, there has to be an interim period where the old map goes into temporary chaos, breaks down, and is then replaced by a new map, one that more accurately reflects reality and more resourcefully allows you to be happy, creative and spiritually connected to other people." - http://www.edgenews.com/issues/2003/08/harris.html

A Picture (links) Story (in words) : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/Images/LightofDay.htm

5,252 Designs about "palestine OR israel OR gaza strip" on 62,431 Products" - http://www.cafepress.com/buy/palestine+OR+israel+OR+gaza+strip?CMP=EMC-thewire011106&att=Palestinian

"If you don't give yourself credit for all that's good in your life, how can you expect yourself to create more? - The Universe
"From a purely semiotic point of view, comic strips constitute one of the most complex and sophisticated areas of drawn communication." - Clive Ashwin
"Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else." -Tennessee Williams
"Some such as David Hockney or Cornell or whoever, can be quite articulate about art theory, theories of approach, what art "is"and "is not"--others such as Picasso didn't discuss their work in any kind of articulate, analytical manner. For all I know Picasso may have had theories about art, but like Van Gogh he just churned out work and followed his gut as far as what he was interested in working on at any given time. " - Chad Henry
"Life rewards effort exponentially (no matter how small the effort, nor how challenging the odds)." - The Universe
"Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right. It's not about how much wealthy nations can give, so much as how much less they can take." - Vandana Shiva
"The peace making meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict." -