18 August 2006

BurningMan (Googlized) Map : http://burningman.beatmaps.com/ The BMorg (people who organize Burning Man) are kind of secretive about geo matters, so anyone doing tech is likely to just use the data from the previous year generated by participant hackers.

Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework : http://nunaliit.org/index.html aims to make it easy to tell stories and highlight relationships between many different forms of information from a variety of sources, using maps as a central way to connect and interact with the data. (The word nunaliit means "settlement", "community", or "habitat" in Inuktitut - the name given to the dialects of the Inuit language in Canada. )

Hiding and Highlighting Power in ... Maps : http://www.newberry.org/smith/slidesets/ss31.html

Faceted browse interfaces : wine.com, RawSugar, Siderean (fac.etiou.us), and mefeedia.com are different ways of going from tags to facets. Via http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/06_07/tag-findability.html

The Long Tail of Mapping : http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=2208&trv=1 Watch how "consumer mapping portals" merge with "Web GIS" very soon.

Spherical coordinate system : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinates#Spherical_coordinates is a three-dimensional polar coordinate system.

Honeycomb Navigation : http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/26075 discussion and examples.

Let website owners actually provide reward to the bloggers : http://creamaid.com/howto.html

Comic Strip Generator : http://www.kaboodle.com/sign_generator/Sign-Generators/Comic-Strip-Generator-Over-1-000-Toon-Choices (Over 1,000 Toon Choices)

Perfect Maze Creation Algorithms : http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm

Graphic Design for the Web : http://www.fred.net/dhark/graphics

MANDALA SYMBOLISM : http://www.michaelbrown.org/html/mandala_symbolism.html

Google Translates English To & From Arabic : http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060428-094516

Querying Geographical Names : http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/search_e.php (of Canada) Geographic Names Information System - Online Data Base Query Form- (US).

Long-forgotten papers may offer a new road map for peace? : http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/longforgotten-papers-may-offer-a-new-road-map-for-peace/2006/08/02/1154198206054.html also http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00235_12.x?cookieSet=1

The Uses of Anti-Semitism : http://politicscentral.com/2006/08/15/the_uses_of_antisemitism_by_ne.php

"The place you are right now God circled on a map for you." - Ibraham Hafiz
"Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"You can always tell an old soul by how indifferent they are to setbacks." - TU
"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart." - Mencius
"The work is done and then forgotten. And so it lasts forever." - Lao Tzu
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." - Jerry Gillies

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