http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-maps-five-reasons-that-apple-others-shouldnt-even-try-to-compete/2979

Musicovery Map displaying songs by degree of consensus, with at the top the most consensual songs tagged by listeners).

Using SketchUp for digital fabrication

Some awesome facts about numbers

(Definition) "schema" are a set of 'types' (each associated with a set of properties). arranged in a hierarchy.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/ to replace MobileMe

Where, Exactly, Are Israel's Borders?

"Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it." - Alain Rene Le Sage
"It's often from a sense of discontent, feelings of incompleteness, or even a twinge of true unhappiness, that the seeds of great accomplishment are sown." - The Universe
"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better." - Brian Eno
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." - Oscar Wilde
"The universe was made by a god who botched the job. Therefore, we must proceed mostly by abstract and fanciful maps, rather than by empirical observation." - Via

Designing Maps Applications for Usability

TinEye ( http://www.tineye.com/ ) is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

139 song mashup in 46 minutes

http://mycitystories.com/index.php?view=theme

User-Created Geographies of Religion: Allah, Buddha, Hindu, Jesus

Make 3D models from any file on your computer

Art images made with Processing

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace." - George Santayana
"Hallelujah, the winds are blowing." - TU
"Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it?" - Frank O. Gehry
"Art is an adventure not a habit." — Kathleen Munn

http://www.google.com/mapmaker (for the United States only) Add and update the places you know for millions to see in Google Maps.

Re-examining Dropbox (and its alternatives)

NXNEi panel programmer forum

This study demonstrated that student retention of material across a wide range of subjects and difficulty levels can be significantly improved by presenting reading material in a format that is slightly harder to read.

Flip-Flap Books allow you to see all the photos in the book at once (instead of flipping through page by page by page).

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Canadian_inventions

Down with art!: the age of manifestos

"To give yourself over to chance is to embrace freedom, the unknown, total openness. And today, with the popularity of co-productions, collaborations and works-in-progress, that’s exactly where contemporary art is going." - Claude Gosselin
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul." - Emily Carr
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." - Kahlil Gibran
"Insisting on details always limits you." - The Universe
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world..... On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds." - Anne Rice

Bing Maps Streetside view has flattened steet-level images and lets you scroll the images as one gigantic panorama to navigate the map. Via

http://taxonomy2watch.blogspot.com/2011/05/tool-to-build-faceted-navigation.html

Mapping Escorts

Amazing Interactive Installations

Ben Shneiderman : leader of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. at the University of Maryland

Best choice for a free photo manager–editor

Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Fund APPLICATION deadline: August 26, 2011

"You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so." - Francois Rabelais
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." - Confucius
"There's always more than one right answer, path, possibility, nuance, or flavor - so insist upon none." - TU
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(23 layer mash-up) Punk song...Visualized

(iPad app) allows users to view and study Cubist works with a level of detail and precision (designed by Reza Ali) Via

When is sharing stealing?

(Video ON CREATING AND CURATING CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE) A CUTTER'S EDGES - JAMES GALLAGHER

The Good Fight (Some kinds of conflict can actually help us)

(Definition) "desultory" : skipping from one subject to another, disconnected, unmethodical.

Cyprus Residency Opportunity : http://www.cornaroinstitute.org/

"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind." - Rudyard Kipling
"Design, in all its forms, can often be distilled down to its three core principles: colour, composition, and noodle collage." - Design Exchange
"In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch." - Jonas Salk
"How you feel is more important than anything else (and this is something you get to choose, moment by moment)." - The Universe
"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission." - Sally Ride

Geoweb Density in Israel and Palestine

Photo Shadow Play

Thingiverse : place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects.

Top 10 moments in Steve Jobs' career

Library Map used as an example here

Artists using appropriation

Antique Map Bedding

"My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be." - Yarn
"Be creative whenever possible. It is always possible." - R.B. Wild (after the Dalai Lama)
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Sitting still is highly dangerous." - James A. Levine
"Love it all, before it's just a really, really, really, really, really beautiful memory." - TU

Yellow Pages Encourages entrepreneurs to build location-based services

Free Science, One Paper at a Time

(Digital comic book series) In Maps & Legends : a fantasy mapmaker finds herself drawn into a mysterious world she’s been mapping. Via

http://collagista.wordpress.com/ : an online, bi-monthly zine – dedicated to promoting and supporting collage art in all its forms. Issue May 2011

Added example TimeLine to Amazon book

(Definition) "Internet of Things" : refers to uniquely identifiable objects (Things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-alike structure (by which a developer can link real world items to the online world using RFID tags and QR Codes).

Artwork From Old Maps made by.

Gaudi’s Barcelona : http://googlesightseeing.com/2010/04/gaudis-barcelona/

"We humans appear to be genetically wired to focus more on differences in our environment than on similarities." - William Seidman, Cerebyte Inc, 2008 Via
"For the one who continues, failure becomes impossible (and winning becomes inevitable)." - The Universe
"Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted." - Confucius did NOT say
"Mapping is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - R.B. Wild (after Claude Monet)
"If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of." - Cindy Sherman