The Strangest Sights in Google Earth : Badlands Guardian, Giant Bunny, Crop Circles Oprah maze, Military Secrets, Hi-res Beach African Water Break, Impossible Auto, Elephants on the move Virtual Sight-seeing, Big Advertising, Airplanes in Flight Shipwreck, Caught as it happens, Map Mysteries Via

Collection of handdrawn maps

(Maps) The Ancient World index of places

"...war teaches us much about geography..."

Photovido (Shareware) - produces AVI/WMV/MPG files from a sequence of images and audio files (multiple files at different resolutions from the same project). Automatically adjust frame durations to suit accompanying soundtrack.

(Video) Escher Stairs

Kandinsky drawing illustrative of 'Data on the Web' (From relations to semi-structured data and XML)?

Toronto Public Labyrinth Via http://www.labyrinthnetwork.ca/

Canada Takes on Russia in Race for North Pole

Blog still being mirrored using pkblogs free Blog Gateway (providing unblocked access in India, Pakistan, Iran, and China?).

Repeat visitor Who Owns 206.80.1.253

http://www.mindjet.com/us/sitemap/index.php ------->>>>

"How do I work? I grope." - Albert Einstein
"Limitations and even constrictions may be vital to creativity." - David Masello, Writer on architecture and urban design
"Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear." - Lao Tsu (Tao Te Ching 41) Via
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"Without error, there is no brilliancy." - Emanuel Lasker

RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2007 - Update August

Geometry of Partial Cubes (PDF) - HTML (isometric hypercube .... projects onto hex lattice).

Brain Maps : http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/11/brain-maps.html

Manipulation and Exploration of Semantic Web Knowledge (PDF) - Version HTML

Document Visualization : http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/vvrg/emorse/papers/soa/DocumentVisualization.htm ('98)

comapping.com online mind-mapping tool

The Theory of Relativity mind mapped Via

Flags by Colours : http://shaheeilyas.com/flags/ (Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag).

BusinessSummaries.com releases Mind Maps of Books

ArtFlock.com : http://www.artflock.com/freefolio/ is a dedicated website for promoting and selling your originals (not prints of) artwork. Via

Added to; http://del.icio.us/w.renden/dailynews?page=2 (most popular tags: 29maps , 19visualization , 16blog , 15design , 15map , 10mapping )

(Definition) ' DILLAGE' = digital collage

"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own." - Carl Jung
"Being in the right place at the right time, isn't something you can force. It just happens when you keep busy. Effortlessly." - The Universe
"Do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas." - John F. Carlson
"There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them." - Charles Baudelaire
"A man without a home can't be lost." - Kurt Vonnegut

GoogleMaps: "Geopedia"; ESRI: Keep GIS for professionals; Discussion

Mindmaps directory : http://www.topicscape.com/mindmaps/ - all mindmaps (page 1 of 40)

More about how Seed Wiki works : http://The_Seed_Wiki_Book.seedwiki.com

Democracy’s invisible line : http://mondediplo.com/2007/08/02democracy (Forms of oppression and injustice that were once barely recognised, less still disputed, are no longer allowed).

UP sketches available for purchase at : http://www.imagekind.com/member/Default.aspx

(Sculpture) 'Ceci n'est pas un cube'

People have me on their Flickr contact list

Mini calling-cards : http://www.moo.com/products/minicards.php (with your own photographs or designs) Via

"A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." - Thoreau
"Forty layers are not enough." - Rubens
"Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there." - Bruce Mau, Canadian Designer, Author of 'An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth'
"Absolutely nothing is important, yet everything matters." - The Universe
"Even though you have to prepare carefully, you want something fun and interesting to do as you play and manipulate the final work. Keep it alive while you're actually doing it." - Alan Wylie

Knowledge Discovery : http://www.knowledgediscovery.info/ (Resources and Sites)

URL Shortening Services : A Mini-Guide

Nature of Science Concept Map : http://www.geocities.com/jjmohn/sciencemap.htm

(Freeware) Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.1 Generator

The Secret - a Mind Map (to clarify your goals and achieve them - abandoned?)

'Fat Friends Network' (View Animation) (7.5 MB) Via

An Introduction to the fascinating patterns of Visual Math

Isometric Pixel Art : http://shonegold.deviantart.com/journal/12884820/

YouTube - James Burke - Balanced Anarchy Watch video - (4 min. 50 sec . )

Animator vs. Animation : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34244097/ (Flash)

Best URL ever (?) Via

Top 30 reasons why readers unsubscribe from your blog feeds

LibraryMap sale

"Die to yesterday's illusions and be reborn to the truth of your vision." - The Universe
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." - Leo Tolstoy
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R. Buckminster Fuller, Philosopher, Architect and American Inventor.
"So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut Via
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ), English author of science fiction

MindMeister : http://www.mindmeister.com/ (supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, with many simultaneous users) Via

How to Correct and Validate Your HTML Via

The editorial cartoons and related lesson plans : http://www.congresslink.org/cartoons/index.htm will teach students to identify issues, analyze symbols, acknowledge the need for background knowledge, recognize stereotypes and caricatures, think critically, and appreciate the role of irony and humor.

'NeuroZappingFolks' consists of a non-linear zapping through del.icio.us accounts (...) simulating a frantic navigation through the web.' : http://moebio.com/santiago/english.html

('06) MindManager Contest : http://www.notetalkers.com/2006/06/19/note-talkers-mindmanger-contest-winners/

(Video) Mandelbrot Zoom

Brian Harley has been dead for fifteen years, yet the impact of his writings continues to reverberate not only through cartography and the history of cartography, but much more widely across the humanities and social sciences.

Al-Rowwad Center: http://www.alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/ is an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children. Via

(Webinar) Rules for Renegades: Breakthrough Innovation from Basements to Boardrooms

"Atta Boy" (20th Anniversary) Pat on the Back ---->>>>>>

"What you see with your eyes is never as important as what exists out of view." - The Universe
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
"Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists." - Marcel Proust
"We drive into the future using only our rear-view mirror." - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Philosopher, Futurist and Founder of Media Studies
"Thinkers perish, thoughts don't." - Malcolm Forbes

Digital Concept Maps for Managing Knowledge and Information (PDF) - View as HTML (Model of concept map-based representation and access of domain knowledge and related information).

FlickrBrowse : http://labs.metacarta.com/flickrbrowse/ Browsing the World’s Interesting Flickr Images via OpenLayers.

POLYFOAM! : http://comp.uark.edu/~strauss/foama/ (The first class, while producing periodic structures in the limit, is often quite interesting before the limit is reached).

Pixelated Mosaic Edges : http://www.photoshoplab.com/pixelated-mosaic-edges.html

Gateway to the Great Books : http://www.thegreatideas.org/gbgateway.html#volume1

(Video) Large Scale (8' x 256') Mural production techniques

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (probably the paper to read about how Google works, written by Sergey Brin and Lawrance Page). Via

Any ideas what NET-198-81-128-0-1 could find so interesting about http://greatmap.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html (?)

"Even though you have to prepare carefully, you want something fun and interesting to do as you play and manipulate the final work. Keep it alive while you're actually doing it." - Alan Wylie
"Didn’t know how lost I was until I found you." - Madonna, Like A Virgin
"A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED)
"Nonsense and beauty have close connections." - E. M. Forster
"... even as you would ideally imagine every conceivable detail of your heart's desire, don't attach yourself to those details, only to the bigger pictures of wealth and abundance, friends and laughter, health and harmony..." - The Universe

Image Cutter software for Google Maps (Download version 1.0 )

Variable resolution on quasi-uniform grids : (There is more than one way to formulate the map space on the octagonal grid).

(Installation project) A Dot and A Line Via http://mooonriver.blogspot.com/2007/07/dot-and-line.html

Isometric Game - Part 1 : http://www.lingoworkshop.com/Articles/Isometric_Game_1.php and Part2. Which tiles and perspective to use? : http://www.allegro.cc/forums/print-thread/592079

The basis of visualization : http://www.munterbund.de/visualisierung_textaehnlichkeiten/essay.html#CSamplesketches

'Make your e-mail a picture!' service : http://www.mailonpix.com/

(Free utility) JPEG Lossless Rotator : http://pcwin.com/Multimedia___Design/JPEG_Lossless_Rotator/index.htm (When you rotate a JPEG photo, most image editors decode the photo, rotate the bitmap and then re-encode it back to JPEG, slightly decreasing the final image quality.)

Software for mindmapping : http://www.mind-mapping.org/ and information organization

(Built a Dragon Illusion Watch the video Via

US House panel backs patent overhaul bill

Prospective dealer : http://www.maryryangallery.com/ for my MapArt (?)

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than Fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." - Mark Twain Via
"Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you." - Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) Austrian-born British philosopher of science.
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." - Rabindrananth Tagore, poet
"Art is made to disturb, science reassures." - Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (one of the founders of Cubism)
"We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." - Henry Ford, 1916