09 October 2008

(Google Code) SpatialMap : new tools for the visualization and sharing of knowledge in the Second Life virtual world.

Mapping McCain's homes Via

The Flow of Visitors (inside Switzerland)

Is ‘mind mapping’ the fast track to learning?

Add a blog search gadget (for the future of mapping interfaces) to your Google homepage.

(Just Launched) New look & new features for Picasa Web Albums

7 Signs of Bogus History

Art Prints (How to Buy Graphic Prints Online)

(Video) Where the Hell is Matt (Dancing)? Maps

Fractal furniture

"We had no trouble finding the park entrances, but where are the exits?" - Tourist, Yellowstone National Park
"The little things are infinitely the most important." - Doyle "
"If this weren't your only lifetime, this weren't your only timeline, this weren't your only galaxy, would *you* be an alien?" - eve11 "Appreciating what you have little of is easy. Appreciating what you have lots and lots of takes a spiritual master (And you so have lots)." - The Universe
"Taking over the world is fun." - Lux

08 October 2008

GoThere is a location-based search engine that mashes together Google Maps and location information to create a highly informative, interactive and intuitive web service. Via

Web 2.0 Eco-system Via

Mapping the Health Cyberspace : http://healthcybermap.org/

Software War Map Via

Indian Reserve Maps

kottke.org posts about 'maps'

Starting a New Blog? Start With a Mind Map

John Heartfield Series

Art Directors: BEWARE!

Still some kind of eLearning link from

"You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark." - Annie Dillard)
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." - Ray Bradbury
"Rather try than think." - B.J. Fogg
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of things left unsaid ..." - Dostoevsky
"(... And for those who ponder and wonder and wrestle with exactly what will bring them true happiness, I have an answer that each would wholeheartedly disagree with:) "Just do something, do anything, as soon as possible, and do it with care." - The Universe

07 October 2008

Alternative World Map Creator

Vortex Maps Site Guide at Rosetta Geometric Maps Home

Charles Dickens London Map

(JavaScript) Navigation scripts : http://javascript.internet.com/navigation/

(Huge Depository) Unusual Fractal Links

(BNMI) Co-production Residency: Liminal Screen

(Animation) Fractal X

(User) Experiences that foster happiness

Dada Font

(Definition) "& Ampersand" : As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of "et," the Latin word for "and." (Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint at this origin, sometimes in very oblique ways.) Via Discussed

"The only person you really have to make happy, is you." - The Universe
"In practicing his healing, the shaman has a view of reality very different from the one most of the world uses..." - Via
"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."- Clifford Stoll
"Now is the time to live your ideal life." - Cousineau
"Room service? Send up a larger room." - Groucho Marx

06 October 2008

OnionMap (It's Like Google Maps with Sim City 2000)

Musicovery empowers visitors with a visual map to discover music.

The Icosahedral Hexagonal Grid

Male Life Expectancy USA Map

Maps in teaching History

Artists Without Borders Map (image geo-positioning)

The Sierpinski Gasket

Whole Lot Of Things Going On!

Aboriginal concepts related to title, rights and territory do not easily conform to European or Canadian terms such as “territory” and “boundary.”

(Essay) THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY

"Due to the newness of this medium, some applications and uses have yet to be tested or fully explored." - R.B. Wild (after Golden Information Sheet)
"The magic moment is that in which a "yes" or a "no" may change the whole of our existence…" - Coelho
"War Dims Hope For Peace" - Bad Headlines
"Whenever your perspective on something creates emotional pain, it's always because your perspective is still so narrow that you've yet to see all the good it will make possible." - The Universe
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen Via

03 October 2008

(From Armchair Archaeology to Pseudo-Science) What Can’t Google Earth Do?

Mental Maps in Second Life

Chromium Developer Documentation: User Experience (behind Chromium's user interface design)

The Computer Artist And Scientist

What is a Print?

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008

(Flickr) Group Visual thinking school

Optical Illusions

(Definition) presence [prez-uhns] –noun 1. the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place; 2. attendance or company; 3. immediate vicinity, proximity; 4. the military or economic power of a country as reflected abroad by the stationing of its troops, sale of its goods; 5. chiefly British, the immediate personal vicinity of a great personage giving audience or reception; 6. the ability to project a sense of ease, poise, or self-assurance; 7. personal appearance or bearing; 8. a person of noteworthy or compelling personality; 9. a divine or supernatural spirit felt to be present.

($75 trillion) megahorror debts chilling America

"With an apple I will astonish Paris. - Paul Cezanne
“You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the same, you can still see new things. Isn't that enough to live for?” – Yuichi Kannami (in The Sky Crawlers)
"Make some corner of the world distinctively yours." - Chinese Saying
"Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do." - Never-Say-Neverisms
"MAKIA - Energy Flows Where Attention Goes" - Via

02 October 2008

Can Second Life Be Used As a Reliable Corporate Training Tool?

Neo-geography in the classroom

Caert-Thresoor : Journal for the history of cartography (in the Netherlands)

(Alaska) Natural River Art

Mindmaps Directory

LiteratureMap

7th Information Design Symposium : http://www.idsymposium.de/2008

Make a Customized Silhouette T-Shirt

Quotations about Self-Discovery

KandinskyBorderCollie (potrait?) --------->>>>>>>>>

"Artists have a long history of incorporating multiple perspectives in paintings to create better depictions." - Michael Kubovy, 'The psychology of perspective and renaissance art', Cambridge University Press, 1986.
"What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question." - Jonas Salk
"Once again taking action saves the day. " - TU
"... so to map it out you must look inside..." - Jay-Z
"Nichi nichi kore konichi (every day is a good day.)" - John Cage

01 October 2008

(Examples) Using Windows Live Web Services APIs, developers can create mashup applications to meet an endless number of business objectives : http://dev.live.com/mashups/default.aspx?api=virtualearth

Web 2.0's Most Ridiculous Sites

(Simple object property) Center a map (on your user's location)

589 maps for Lux Delux.

BedMaps ("We leave maps behind in our wake.")

(Self-paced, online workshop) Information Mapping Starter Kit

(Chinese Handcuffs) Red2Green Extensions

More Lordy Rodriquez (map artist)

Bid to ban "extremist" (South Park) U.S. cartoon

Referenced "Via"

Long time no see ----->>>>>>>>

"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going." - Goethe
"In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Earl Bertrand Russell (1872 — 1970)
"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics." - M.C. Escher (from To Infinity and Beyond, Eli Maor)
"There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with artlessness." - Piet Hein
"Create the world, the interface will follow." - Adaptive Path