Google Maps Mobile (on Android) now have Offline Raster Mode for out of mobile/cell coverage

How the IPhone Knows Where You Are

LABYRINTH: MYTH, MEANING & SYMBOL

The next wave of online business models must focus narrowly, rather than blindly pursuing scale.

Fine Silver Coin - Toronto City Map

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/ and free iTunes podcasts

Top 10 Technology ETFs

"Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced." – A.N. Whitehead
"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once." - Ray Cumming, 1922
"The best thing about every meltdown, is learning that whatever was lost, can be recreated. Hold on loosely." - The Universe
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King

Genes Found That Respond To Distance

Hexagonal Graph Paper PDF Generator

On-line color IQ test

(Publication) EXPOSÉ 9 showcases 444 pieces of original digital art from 327 artists in 60 countries.

The 14 Biggest Ideas of the Year

(Teleclass) The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Your First Book

(Song) "speaking in tongues" // arcade fire ft. david byrne from talking heads

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." ~ Woody Allen
"Think of every single thing that you "have to" do to get through a day, as things you "get to" do (before your turn is over)." - The Universe
"One usually discovers what one is not searching for."- R.B. Wild (after Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin)
"What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!" - Jakob Bernoulli Via
"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix (1901 - 83)

TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by open source technology. Via

Scaling Boundaries

Designing Digital Media for the Internet of Things projects - Summer, 2011

The Map Room (blog by Jonathan Crowe) comes to an end (after more than eight years and more than 4,000 posts).

(Course Overview) Google SketchUp can help you work quickly to block out a 3D concept.

Picasso-style portraits of superheroes and villains

The Rise and Fall of (Raw'n'Wild) Pseudonyms

"Subconscious perceptions: What will you discover hidden in the details?" - Via
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"You're here because you prevailed." - The Universe
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." - Clifford Stoll

(Samples) Network Maps

Google+ Social Network

(Book) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto : guide to re-seeing the city’s familiar and hidden corners with fresh, unhurried eyes (and feet) Via

Organizational Charts is a very funny look at the corporate cultures and structures for some very high-profile tech companies using hand-drawn organization charts as the visual language.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Res-Artis-Worldwide-Network-of-Artist-Residencies/57312635896

(Scientific) Comic Archive

Barcelona ROJO Gallery

"I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. - Claes Oldenburg
"To succeed, one cannot afford to be a realist." - Albert Bandura (address before the American Psychological Association, 1998)
"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't." - Rebecca Solnit, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost
"All that you need to have, all that you want, will be provided as if by magic (once you know what you want and do something about it every day)." - The Universe
"When truly creative people come up with a new idea they don't reject it immediately because of its flaws. They play with it, looking for strengths and sliding over weaknesses." - David Campbell

Can artists really be considered to have made scientific breakthroughs?

Gravatar is an avatar image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.

Digital Collage

Arty Bollock's Generator writes your artist's statement for you!

(Video) 'Visions of the Possible' (using theatre to 'fire pellets at the complacent body of society')

Products That Were Invented by Accident

Boundary Condition Thinking

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." - Stephen Fry
"If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it." - Luke Parker Via #quotes
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win." - George Bernard Shaw
"If you hold out long enough, always keeping busy while you wait, your ship has to come in ... Promise." - The Universe
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." - Lao Tzu

WeePlaces.com : Map Your Foursquare, Facebook, and Gowalla Checkins Via

smART Maps = Weaving a Pattern of Contextual Associations

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

(Example) Sliding TimeLine (with zoom capability)

Play your mood on Musicovery

The Rap Songs Of The Arab Spring

The Importance of Being Opportunistic

"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over & actually read a volume of 4 or 500 pages. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson Via
"It liberates me not being encumbered by technical proficiency." - Alexander Gorlizki
"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions." - Susanne Langer
"Everyone loves you, no matter what they think or say or do (And it's quite good form to love them no matter what they think or say or do. Actually, you do anyway, so perhaps just admit it)." - The Universe
"Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes." - 41-st Law of Power Via

http://www.needmaps.com/

(Videos) Fractal Geometry

How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great

http://brainartexhibition.com/

How Do You Share Photos Across the Web?

Syndication info : http://great-map.livejournal.com/

(8'x12') Wall Mural

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." - Pierre Corneille (born 1606)
"You are now who you most wanted to be." - The Universe
"Prior explanation inhibits exploration and discovery." - Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz, UC, Berkeley
"We want our great artists and writers to be one thing or the other: saints or sinners, angels or devils. Either way, they should be heroes, with decisive achievements and expansive souls." -
Via
"In art, the obvious is a sin." - Edward Dmytryk