10 September 2008

Discrete Global Grids : http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/ascat/report_series/04_Discrete%20Global%20Grid%20Systems_2.2.pdf

(Discussion) A Map-Based Approach to a Content Inventory : http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/a-map-based-approach

Assessing the accuracy of hexagonal versus square tilled grids

(SketchUp) Paul Klee Glyphs

(Links) SketchUp 3D : 3D warehouse , Cadis/Crate 2006 , Digital Geography , Google Earth Blog , Ogle Earth , SketchUp 3D - Rendering and Modelling Via

DIY Sky-Cam

15 Ads That Prove Sex Sells : http://inventorspot.com/articles/ads_prove_sex_sells_5576

Selling art on eBay : http://www.osnatfineart.com/

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

LibraryMap featured at http://catalogblog5013.blogspot.com/2008/03/competency-7-multimedia.html

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss
"When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile examines the finger." - Buddha (564? — 483 B.C.)
"To do as little as possible in the long run, do as much as possible in the short run." - The Universe
"The map is the game board upon which human destinies are played out, where winning or losing determines the survival of ideas, cultures, and sometimes entire civilizations." - Stephen Hall (Mapping the Next Millennium)
"I’m a visionary; I’m ahead of my time. Trouble is, I’m only about an hour and a half ahead." - George Carlin 1937 — 2008.

09 September 2008

XY Axis Zoom

University Campus Maps

All Streets : is One more project by the interesting Ben Fry, who's passion for cartography and organic design have produced many interesting projects.

Best ways to improve your mind maps :

List of fractals : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension

One year on ScienceBlogs

Borat at Toronto Film Festival (Part 1) Via

Environmental and Social Surrealism

Body Mass Indexes categories illustrated

Side-barred 'Miscelaneoase' at http://www.jobsessive.com/

LineGrid dividing ----->>>>>>>

"It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but art that makes us struggle." - Albert Camus
"Just because something happens regularly, it doesn't mean it isn't special." - R.B.Wild
"The days are long enough for those who use them." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for." - Clay Shirky
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." - Mencius

08 September 2008

Heatmaps for Google Maps : Example or JS code

(SketchUp Model) 3D Sierpinski Triangle and Menger Sponge

Mapping thought (great example of documentation as art object itself, rather than simply support materials). Audio clips of an interview with Megan and Murray McMillan about their work and their collaboration. Via

(Map) Ancestry Groups in the United States

Belgium is shrinking : http://mapsandmore.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/belgium-is-shrinking/

The Mindmap of Book "Idea Mapping" (by Jamie Nast).

How to sharpen photos in Photoshop

The Greatest Inventions of All Times : http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/

Peace Anthem For Palestine

ImageLink to my BurkeMap at bottom of http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” - Dr. Seuss (American Writer and Cartoonist best known for his collection of children's books. 1904-1991)
"The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it." - Winston Churchill
"One picture is worth ten thousand words." - Fred R. Barnard (1927)
"There's really only one thing you can do to unquestionably change the scenery in your life? Physically move through it... in the fast lane." - The Universe
"The great myths show that when you follow someone else's path, you go astray." - Karen Armstrong (The Spiral Staircase) Via

05 September 2008

Knowledge Mapping and Bringing about Change for the Sustainable Urban Environment

Google SketchUp Competition Entries : http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/node/2125/entries

Events exploring community cartography, radical map-making, spatial activism

Grid Software : http://www.programurl.com/software/grid1.htm

(European) Geography Game Via

GameON: Finance returns in October 2008 to Toronto

atlas(t) blog (about mapping, urbanism, landscape, and geography) writer : http://clairelight.pnn.com/5913-about

Creative Business Cards Ideas

(Vancouver) Supplier (Via) of Plexiglass transmounted c-print photographs

Spanish version of this blog

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself." - Alan Ball
(writing credit: American Beauty)
"Maps are art with a purpose." - Lloyd Brown
"It's not enough to just imagine happiness. Like all dreams, one must then endeavor to experience it as well, knocking on doors, turning over stones, and otherwise giving your couch and your vision board a rest." - TU
"I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice... Forget it." - Matt Groening
"Today must not borrow from tomorrow." - German Proverb

04 September 2008

(Official Google) SketchUp Blog : http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/

Planet represented as an (80-face) isosphere : http://foth.wiki.sourceforge.net/Gui+Layouts+2 (The player could toggle between planetary mode, and zooming in on the sector, which would give a hex map of the current triangle, or (possibly) zooming in again and going to dungeon mode or first person viewpoint).

Conversation Map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media Via

Definition: Map : http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/map

Grid Software : http://www.programurl.com/software/grid1.htm

Rene Descartes Via Great Thinkers -- Great Minds

(Chicago) Map Show Review

36000X Zoom photo

Pull Out This Map Art focusing on three artists: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell Via

Side-barred under 'Liens'

"Me fail english? Thats unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
"The problem is doing blue-sky research and finding cool technology seldom results in dollars. It was cool, brought society forward but it didn't benefit the companies very much. That's better suited to universities." - Gzzy Wise, Aged Ars Veteran Via
"...construct mappings that refigure relations in ways that render alternative worlds..." - Gilles Deleuze Via
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so." - Matt Groening

03 September 2008

(Unlike Second Life) Lively does not require you to download any software. It merely requires an Internet Explorer or Firefox extension. "Linden Lab, in contrast, is still very much interested in providing a platform, rolling out their HexGrid project."

The Mind Map as a Creative Thinking Mechanism

What is mlearning (and what are the benefits?)

Human Cognome Project Map (PDF)

Isometric view programming : http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/tut16.html

Stories about Great Thinkers and Famous Inventors

Camera Tossing (Toss Your Camera and Make Some Beautiful Photos)

Interesting Netherlands search

(Memo to Ballmer) Hit the panic button now

Jewish comedian tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

"Think left and think right and think low and think..." - Dr. Seuss
"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better." - Henri Poincaré , french mathematician and theoretical physicist
"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) A PSALM OF LIFE
"Ha ha! Look at this country! ? U R Gay!? Ha ha! (looking at Uruguay on the globe)." - Homer Simpson
"Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven." - Chinese proverb

02 September 2008

http://www.ibermapping.es/index.php?lang=en : Mind Mapping, Information Cartography and Visual Thinking Portal

Isometric Game Development with Flash : http://blog.hexagonstar.com/isometric-game-development-with-flash/

Visual Thinking Networking Promotes Problem Solving Achievement

Random walk with no self-intersection

THE BOUNDARY OF THE MANDELBROT SET

http://www.20x200.com/our-story/ The smallest size is reprinted in the largest batch – an edition of 200 – and sold at the lowest price – $20. (medium-sized editions of 20 for $200, and large-sized editions of 2 generally for $2000).

Flickr Add-ons and Mashups

deletetheborder.org : towards a global network of movements against borders

Listed here under 'Blogs'

(Brian Eno) 'Just Another Day'

"Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color." - Paul Cezanne
"The best writing is rewriting." - E. B. White
"If your maps aren’t good enough, you’re not zoomed in enough." - R.B.Wild (after Robert Capa )
"Truth is a pathless land." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." -Colonel Oliver North