10 January 2007

Dynamically load vector data into a svg mapping application : http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/postgis_geturl_xmlhttprequest/ (each time the user zooms or pans).

Navigating Space : How Your Brain Knows Where You Are

(Ancient) JerusalemMaps : http://maps-of-jerusalem.huji.ac.il/html/gallery.html the holy city of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Photos of Jerusalem

China Maps : http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/china.html

Double-meaning Pictures : http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/2006/05/multiple-meanings-category.html
Citing Maps : http://library.owu.edu/citing222.html Via

Pages tagged with "hex" on del.icio.us : http://del.icio.us/tag/hex

The production of the Great Books of the Western World : http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/ideas5.html proved to be a much more labor-intensive task than anticipated (two years lapsed in to eight years and the estimated $60,000 ballooned to over $2,000,000).

(Documentary) How Art Made the World Via http://www.kk.org/truefilms/index.php

According to Hoyle (Any one of these eccentricities might explain his Nobel exclusion. None provides an excuse.)

Spilled beans (?) Data General Corporation DGC, 4400 Computer Drive, Westboro, MA 01580 US

“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834
"We ought to have a diet salad dressing called "500 Islands." ... See, I'm a visionary. I'm ahead of my time. Trouble is, I'm only about an hour and a half ahead." - George Carlin, "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" (HBO, 1990)
“Whether right or wrong . . . imagination is shaped by the pictures seen.... Consequently, they can lead to stereotypes that are hard to shake.” - Walter Lippmann, 1889 - 1974
"He was tried in absentia, and hanged in effigy — but I can't find either of them on the map." - Ashleigh Brilliant Via
"Are there any questions?" - Steven Wright

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