29 June 2007

How to insert a map in your blog : http://koti.mbnet.fi/ojalesa/tutor/maphowtoblogger.html

WikiMindMap : http://www.wikimindmap.org/ enjoyed a lot of attention and helpful feedback . Via

Waypath : http://www.waypath.com/topic/blackberry.html is a Blog Discovery Engine (=readr?) that lets you find new blogs you want to read.

Google Maps Integrates User Reviews (Finally) : the opportunity to read and write user generated reviews of businesses that show up in local listings in Google Maps.

Spread Hexagon Tessellation PDF Document Via

Orderly Tangles Revisited : http://www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/bridges2005/hart/index.html

Fractals and Scale : http://www.complexity.org.au/vlab/tutorials/fractals/

Referenced by "Mapping Bloggers and Information " : http://bgnonline.blogspot.com/2007/06/mapping-bloggers-and-information.html

4D Cube Swing (animation) : http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_fall_03/4dcube/4dcube.gif ----->>>>>>

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." - Krishnamurti
"To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub." - From Hamlet (III, i, 65-68)
"The life we live, the world we live in, is a mirage. If we understand a mirage, we understand a miracle." - Rodney Collin
"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." - Gertrude Stein
"Tao is not a concept, nor a mystical matter. Tao is the way the things are." - Jhian Yang

28 June 2007

"Memorable visualization of universal knowledge" : http://www.wolfram-stanek.de/mind_maps_memo_maps.htm

e-learning 2.0 : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20_all_you_need_to_know.php Via

"US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs" Map Via

The Map the Universe blog : http://www.maptheuniverse.com/ details a Canadian stamp honouring George Vancouver.

FRACTAL DIMENSION (Snowflake projects, Fractal curves , Order in Pollock's Chaos ) : Via

Edit Photos Online : Fauxto (web-based application software)

Joyce Walks a web 2.0 service which generates walking maps based on routes from Joyce's Ulysses for any city in the world. Via
Maps offer direction for wall décor (by Martha Stewart Martha Stewart ) Via

Cabalistic Map Via

Interesting search by Who Owns 131.107.0.77?

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. " - Salvador Dali
"... because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." - R. D. Laing Via
"Speed does not kill. Stopping very quickly kills. " - ?
"... but my livliest interest is not so much in things, as in the relations of things." - Charles Fort (1874-1932) in: Wild Talents
"You always have options." - The Universe

27 June 2007

Mapping OpenLearn XML : http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/010439.htmlPass 2 Discussed

MindMap-ish tracking(?) service : http://walk2web.com/surf/http://1-900-870-6235.com

Knowledge Base (examples) : Microsoft Knowledge Base, Symantec Knowledge Base

Mesh generation/refinement using fractal concepts (PDF) ...resulting maps are a union of the points, lines and surfaces in the domain (may be generated recursively).

Cartography and Cartography II catalogues for download (in pdf format).

Historical maps cry out for better clarity : http://mason.gmu.edu/~aoconnor/hist803su02/greatmaphunt.html

AlQaida Map : http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2007/jun/al_qaida/al_qaida_map.html (not Flash) with legend and roll-over hotspots.

The Fine Art of GIS Cartography : http://gis2.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap413/p413.htm

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Listed http://mark.brett.com/Links.htm under Mind Maps

Sophisticated Maze program : http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/daedalus.htm

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and found that life was duty. I worked and, behold -- duty is joy." - Rabinranath Tagore
"When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl." - 6&nL#bi~8r
"When a tiny series of the most unpredictable events occur that otherwise make no sense at all... it's just my way of winking, and hinting that something big is about to happen." - The Universe
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." - George Carlin

26 June 2007

Put your business on Google Maps

Mapping New Knowledge Ecologies : http://design.umn.edu/go/project/MNKE 'Design Institute Fellows' Program

Visual Thinking Software : http://www.visual-concept.co.uk/visualthinking.htm Example

Spherical Coordinate examples : star function Via

Spiral Fractal Zoom : http://video.aol.com/video-search/id/489036776 (video)

All 35 hexominoes Tile the Plane : http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/polypoly.htm

Space Junk Spotting is a project composed of equipment linked to a databas at a U.S. government-owned space observatory. Via

The Movie Map : http://www.movie-map.com/ is an excellent example of visual thinking in action. Via

Middle East Nuclear Map : http://www.world-crisis.com/images/uploads/israeli_nuclear_sites_1.gif Via

A mapping-independent primitive for the triangulation of parametric surfaces ( PDF) - View as HTML

(Old?) Fractal GIF Animation program

Funded PhD Candidate in Information Visualization and Geospatial Web Technology : http://www.ecoresearch.net/download/nmt.pdf

Side-barred here : http://www.wowblog.co.uk/

Map printer : http://www.imagekind.com/faq.aspx/

"You go to heaven... God sneezes... What do you say ?" - Peter Houppermans
"Everything, up until now, has just been practice for the really, really good stuff." - The Universe
"The seekers of the Way of Truth are individuals." - Ibn Al Arabi
"The child ... experiences the Tao by playing without thinking of playing, without even thinking of something. His mind is pure like the purest light of the initial Heaven." - Master Lu Via

25 June 2007

Decision Support Models for Composing and Navigating through e-Learning Objects (PDF/) - View as HTML

yEDfree diagramming/mind mapping software. Via

Polyhedron flattened into a plane within the enclosing polygon : http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/poly9f0.htm

NAS Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, Video/Audio Report Source: NAS Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, The Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, 2003/05/09-11, (Video/Audio) (Richard & Katy's PDF or HTML summary)

Interesting vector-drawing demo (starts at 2:30 mark) : http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/06/19/how-to-draw-cats/

A la 4RealHelp(?) : http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ a vibrant helpful community providing free computer help to all; with a vast variety of downloads, tutorials, and news articles.

Knowledge Mapping proponent : http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty_member.aspx?facId=390

Wondering how the Prophet might have responded to the cartoons. Via

Blog-rolled here : http://www.kartentisch.de/?p=201

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. " - A Bit of Fry and Laurie Via
"GIS is to geography what the telescope was to astronomy." - Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI
"Becoming is superior to being." - Paul Klee
"Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change." - John Owen

22 June 2007

Reconsidering Cartography’s Concept of Visualization : http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/troelsd/cybervis.htm in Current User-centric Cyber-geographic Cosmologies (early research).

What are SmartGraphics? ---->>>>
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/SmartGraphicsMap.htmaphicsMap.htm

Combining parts into nets : http://web.aanet.com.au/robertw/PolyNav/PolyNavigator.html

SickMap: http://whoissick.org/sickness/ (never recovers/refreshes?) uses interesting 6 facet piechart points. Via

This 64 tetrahedron topological structure : based on a fractal growth of cubeoctahedrons (or vector equilibriums).

Fractal Image Coding in Hexagonal Grid Images : "...hexagonal grid pixel representations are able to provide more natural image capture and display capabilities due to its close correspondence with the human retina."

Summary of Mapping Knowledge Domains (PDF) - HTML

The actual elephant poem

Referenced at Map art and interface

"It's the one with a certain and definite dream, who boldly steps into the uncertain and indefinite, who goes the farthest..." - The Universe
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito
"Is time travel a thing of the past?" - ?

21 June 2007

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) represent conceptual artefacts

Visualization Studies Map : http://www.elab.usilu.net/usi10anni/knowledge_domain_maps/visualization_scholars/

Building Hexagonal Crystals : http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/hexaguc.htm (with Unit Cells)

A bijection between binary trees and some dissections of the ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Dissection of the hexagon in the plane

(Definition) en·ig·mat·ic (ěn'ĭg-māt'ĭk) Pronunciation Key adj. Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling; perplexing; mysterious; resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought;. puzzling, baffling, cryptic.

The Yes Men have proved, yet again, that two regular guys can put a wrench in big power machinery, with the aid of faked websites and rented suits.

" We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular." - Edward R. Murrows