30 October 2009

Visualizing the Bible

London Bomb Damage Map : photographs of all the old WW2 bomb damage.

Collection of visualizations and datasets : http://http://www.data360.org/index.aspx/index.aspx (all freely available)

(Slideshow) Overlooked Features of Google Maps

The world's toughest math questions

Adobe Photoshop on the iPhone (Free)

Toronto Open Data Lab (launchs Toronto.ca/Open)

On cartographers and neocartographers

THE MaRS BLOG : http://blog.marsdd.com

Six-Word Memoirs

"In much of science and engineering, the most productive way to deal with a problem is to turn it into one that somebody else has either already solved or proven impossible." - Robert J. Lang (consultant specializing in the application of origami to engineering problems) Via
"Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense." - Douglas Adams
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." - Einstein
"If you don't give yourself credit for all that's good in your life, how can you expect yourself to create more?" - TU
"What dreaming does is give us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense of knowing this world." - Carlos Castaneda

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