05 August 2009

(Mapping Service) http://www.schmap.com/picks : browse opinions for trending local restaurants and bars from fellow Twitter users.

(Map Curators’ Group Workshop) From paper to screen: Putting maps on the web

Settlement Maps

(Wiki) Map Room - Indiana Jones

Survival of Information Timeline : Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media (From Cave Paintings to the Internet)

Barriers to knowledge transfer

Amazon Secretly Removes "1984" From the Kindle

The great Renaissance art cover-up : creating artworks purely to hide and cover over secret paintings.

Sculpture / Installation

(Definition) "dual graph" of a given planar graph G is a graph which has a vertex for each plane region of G, and an edge for each edge in G joining two neighboring regions, for a certain embedding of G.

"The mind loves labels because it then “thinks” it “knows”". - mindmapdrawer
"If you can just remember where this is all going, no road will be too bumpy, no night will be too lonely, and no price will seem too great." - The Universe
"There are one hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground." - Rumi
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
"We do our best work when we don’t know what we’re doing." - John Cage

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