(Review) Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share...

The benefits of mnemonic mind maps : http://memoryrhetor.blogspot.com/2008/02/memory-maps.html

Navigable Structures

Fictional Road Maps : http://www-personal.umich.edu/~aleskiw/maps/home.htm

Infographic columnist

May 10 Pangea Day

http://www.flickr.com/groups/mapsandcharts/

(Video) http://snowflakebentley.com/vid.htm about the simple, self educated farmer who taught us that "no two snowflakes are alike" by taking amazing pictures (still found on many products today).

(Magazine) VIZZ:Outrageous Visual Communications

Try before you buy

"Just because a thing doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless." - Thomas Edison.
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred Hoyle, Observer
"The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind." - Thomas Carlyle
"I thought that was an idea worth spreading." - Jill Bolte Taylor
"If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age." - George Burns

Uniform Interface to Grid Services : http://www.unigrids.org/links.html

The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them

Three Traditions of Self-Similarity (in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Islamic Geometric Ornament)

BedMaps

(Video) on John Snow's GHOST MAP

Territorial conflict as a challenge to mathematicians

Are Games Art? (Here We Go Again...) back-and-forth of meaningful conversation ?


(MySpace) Collage Artist

http://www.flickr.com/groups/picturesofmaps/

M.A.P. Making (is about crafting a life of Meaning, Abundance, and Passion).

"Happily the distance between having it all, and not, is usually only as great as you think." - The Universe
"Visualization offers a method for seeing the unseen. It enriches the process of scientific discovery and fosters profound and unexpected insights. In many fields it is revolutionizing the way scientists do science." - Visualization in Scientific Computing, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1987.
"I often quote myself - it adds spice to my conversation." - George Bernard Shaw
"Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess." - Susan Baber
"Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money" - William J. Cameron

GuyMaps : mash-up a Google map with observations on some aspect of a guy's life.

Tinderbox is a personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze, and share your notes.

First map of planet outside our system (Jupiter)

(Time-lapsed Video) The Base Map Installation @ Art-O-Matic

From Lateral Thinking to Voluminous Thinking : http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/uground.php

(Blog and Feed list) "map"

Map Caliper Watch

"...bandying this idea around (about doing large pieces)" :

What's He Building

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"Sometimes not knowing what you want is enough to go on (sure beats waiting around for an epiphany)." - The Universe
"The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else." - John Blake
"I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later." - Miles Davis
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." - Tom Robbins
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is the best defense." - Anon.

Visual Engagement is great for change managers : http://www.whitla.net/communication_practice.php

Library of Congress Photos on Flickr : http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_pilot.html

Where science inspires art and art informs science... and Maps

Ancient Knowledge and Modern Science : http://www.sacred-geometry.com/ancientknowledge.html

Towards Polyhedral Global Governance : http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/hellenic.php (complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors.

Glossary of cartography and map terminology

Where Toronto

'greatmap' (by Spell with flickr )

LinkedIn (typical?) Questions & Answers

Lots of people search for her

"Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it." - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream." - W.C. Fields
"Artistic appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got, and fifty percent what people think you’ve got." - R.B.Wild (after Sophia Loren)
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind." - Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley 1925
"You can always ask yourself what the "wisest you" would do (and prepare to be astounded)." - The Universe

SCIENTIFIC METHOD: RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS

Penrose Tiling Generator : http://www.stephencollins.net/web/penrose/#Deflation

Visualizing TED2008 with BigViz (Autodesk BIGVIZ pdf - 50988Kb)

Union for the Mediterranean is a proposed community of European Union member states and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

Triangle Flexagon Bestiary

BEIJING 2008 > Image & Look > Pictograms

Using maps as a background or frame allows her to emphasize the borders that exist between ...

Fancy Transitions : http://www.picturetrail.com/samples/flicks

(Illustration) Paper sizes

Alter Ego Bios

"Ever notice how when you stop trying to make something work that hasn't been working, new stuff appears and starts working? It's the coolest thing.... " - The Universe
"If you haven’t got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want." - Anon.
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." - Lily Tomlin Via
"No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You've got to get out and walk." - Jane Jacobs from 'Downtown is for People'
"Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself." - Robert Louis Stevenson

Where Britain has been Map

Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias : http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/journal/v7/n1/full/9500171a.html

Media attention cartograms

Jane’s Walk – a series of free neighbourhood walking tours happening in eight Canadian cities May 3 & 4, 2008.

Qualities of an Innovator (cards)

The Caveman and Fire (lessons for innovation and thinking forward).

Gmail Inbox vs Archive : http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-04-22-n21.html

Toronto Art Science Salon : http://artscisalon.ning.com/ (A group of Toronto based artists and scientists that meet to share ideas and good conversation).

(Summary) NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA

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"Although science and art are social phenomena, an innovation in either field occurs only when a single mind perceives in disorder a deep new unity." - J. Bronowski
"Life is 'trying things to see if they work.'"- Ray Bradbury
"And now you get to think of whatever you like... no pressure." - TU
"The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish." -Siddhartha, Herman Hesse Via
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas A. Edison

Great Basin Map Via

The Dome of the Rock : (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة = Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע = Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark in Jerusalem. (completed in 691, making it the oldest extant Islamic building in the world).

The Coming Decline of Oil Chart

...expose the behind-the-scenes of creating complex graphs : http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2008/04/making-maps.html

Data Visualization Discussion Group : http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/seminar/DataVis.html

4 ways to get more out of TEDTalk

Michel Foucault [miʃɛl fuko]) (October 15, 1926–June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist who held the "History of Systems of Thought,"chair at the Collège de France, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

Backup Your Blog

(Definition) ex·per·i·men·tal [ik-sper-uh-men-tl] adjective 1. Pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment 2. In the nature of an experiment; tentative 3. Functioning as an experiment or used for experimentation 4. based on or derived from experience; empirical

Gratitude Dance

"Nature is a damp place where ducks fly, uncooked." - Oscar Wilde
"Artists magnetically draw the attention of others to their creations, to their vision, into the imagination, into the collective future." - Iona Miller Via
"Always listen to your doubts: not just because they might teach you of your fears, but because, sometimes, they might teach you of your wisdom." - The Universe
"Attachment is the source of all suffering." - Buddha
"What I am to be, I am becoming." - ?