MyLifeBits, the brain child of 72-year-old veteran Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, who has stuffed decades of metadata into a “lifelog” (creating a near-total digital record of his experience). Via http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1249

New Firefox Extensions : "All Your Maps Are Belong to Us"

A Course in Pictorial and Multimodal Metaphor ( PDF) - View as HTML

Search online maps in over 600 websites : http://mapshark.com/ (only brings back results with live interactive maps?) Via

Cartouche Illustration and Clip Art : http://www.fotosearch.com/illustration/cartouche.html

Second Life panorama can be viewed in Quicktime VR : http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/andy/qt/secondlife1.html (1Mb). You can download the high res PDF to cut out and keep, full instructions are included. (7.9Mb).

Leafletter : http://www.leafletter.com/ Create Interactive Image Portfolios That Can Be Embedded On Any Web Page. Via

http://www.mapygon.com/ ???

First Amendment Gets Challenged By New US Bill: Grassroots Bloggers At Risk?

(Discussion) "SLurl," a web application that gives the general public read/write access to an interactive overhead map of Second Life. (If you have Second Life installed, clicking on the map link will automatically teleport you to that location in-world.)

http://bombsite.com/mehretu/mehretu.html : talks with Mehretu about the interstices among geography, architecture, language and media that her work articulates. Via

Flickr Toys : http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/is a collection of web-based services that extend, enhance and augment images...

Fractal image coding scheme specifically designed to code images represented on a hexagonal grid : http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=23286 ($pay) "... Alternatively hexagonal grid pixel representations are able to provide more natural image capture and display capabilities due to its close correspondence with the human retina." From Proceeding (516) Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications - 2006

Funny: Potential of humour-playfulness in methodological reframing of transdisciplinary incongruities

Paper-cut / installation artist : http://www.petercallesen.com/index/index2.html

"I hate women because they always know where things are." - Voltaire
"Just because you can have it all doesn't mean there's something wrong with you until you do." - The Universe
"Woman pointing to fishing pier: Where did that bridge used to lead to?" - Overheard by Lifeguard, Wildwood, New Jersey
"All arts is but imitation of nature. (Omnis ars naturae imitatio est.)" - Seneca
"It is not enough to be busy; the question is: what are we busy about? " - Henry David Thoreau Via