Clusty Cloud Creator : http://cloud.clusty.com/ used to instantly visualize a topic using the familiar tag cloud display ( you can create a cloud based on any topic or query - you don't need tags or months of content on a subject to create an interesting cloud).

KnowVis : NSDL Cognitive-based, Semantic Query Service [PDF] View as HTML

Mapping the “War on Terror” : http://backspace.com/notes/2006/09/17/x.html ( read more about the project at http://clockshop.org/here.php )

Visualisation of music collections : http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/hum/visualisation_o.html

http://www.housingmaps.com/ : Powered by craigslist and Google Maps

Visual IP Trace : http://store.esellerate.net/a.asp?c=0_SKU52252711689_AFL863348026&at= In addition, by seeing the actual route path to the destination point, the locations of last few network hops provide valuable clues to the end-point’s true location. [Download Free Trial]

ImageSquash : http://www.imagesquash.com/ web-based tool that allows you to upload images, resize them, and change their format, and save the newly transformed file.

To create a custom 'blogs I read' search : http://www.alpern.org/weblog/php/blogsearch/writeup.html

Free e-Learning modules (audio and outlines) : http://vip.itworldcanada.com/t?ctl=9AD9:49B16 Via http://www.masie.com/futures/ (2 to 3 minute per module)

Information graphics : http://infographics.quickseek.com/ Defined

Hexahedron Fractal : http://www.public.asu.edu/~starlite/mengersponge.html (the Menger Sponge)

Free Photoshop brushes : http://cgindia.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-photoshop-brushes-by.html

The Sovereign Map : http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/159414.ctl Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History. (Book argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography)

'Muscle Memory' presentation : http://davehopla.com/speaking.php Via http://www.learning2006.com/hoops/ 50 minute Video

Artist & writer Joe Grant ( whose credits include Dumbo and Pocahontas), has died at the age of 96 while working at his drawing board at Disney where he was still working four days a week . Read on

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books." - Charlie Chaplin
"The really juicy new approaches are not the ones insiders reject as impossible, but those they ignore as undignified." - Paul Graham
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -George Washington Carver
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether." - Alfred North Whitehead
"For absolute success in life, there are 2 rules you must follow. Rule 1; Never tell people everything you know. , .." - Yarns