31 March 2008

(Interactive) map of the UK's geology Via

Brain (Site)Map : http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/brain/map.asp

NonEuclid : http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~wws/NonEuclid/NonEuclid.html is a Software Simulation offering Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Hyperbolic Geometry.

Skope : http://www.oskope.com/ is an impressive visual search engine for searching on eBay, Amazon, Flickr and Youtube (conveniently browse through images or videos and preview information with minimal effort). Via

(Idea) Allow poster purchase at custom zoom level

The Atlantean 'A' : http://www.langmaker.com/db/Atlantean_script is a miniature map of the city of Atlantis (i.e., the outside of the swirl is the cave, the inside shape is the silhouette of the city, and the dot is the location of the crystal). It's a treasure map.

How To Draw Pretty Girls With HTML Table

Someone has bookmarked http://greatmap.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html

(Song) Everybody Hates Ned Flanders (David Byrne)

http://www.bitterleaf.blogspot.com/

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness." - Unknown
"It is possible that in art we remember WHO WE ARE - and also celebrate who we are." - Michael McClure
“We are going through a very paradoxical situation. There have never been so many images. We are bombarded with thousands of them daily, without mercy and without warning. And most of them ask us to consume, consume, consume. So how does an image of pain survive in the sea of consumption? It doesn’t.” - Alfredo Jaar
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde

26 March 2008

knowhow : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/knowhow/ is a technology preview that delivers single-click, contextual access to relevant help information from a panel in Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 software.

SCALES AND TRANSFORMATIONS : https://courseware.e-education.psu.edu/courses/geog482/L02_compiled.html

Amazing Moon Map (has a familiar look to it)

(Simplified) Map of London : http://ionoi.blogs.sonance.net/2007/10/28/info-visualized-maps/

Ping pong ball pixel display

(Program) Vocal Collager : http://interactive.usc.edu/members/noha/archives/2006/05/vocal_collager.html

Summary / Overview : http://blendedexposures.blogspot.com/2007/07/jerusalem.html

(Video) PictureBox : http://www.youtube.com/pictureboxinc publishes its own books and also packages books and concepts for museums and galleries around the world.

(Cheney: Mideast peace entails compromise) Maybe not

Map Artist (Torn Map Collage)

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
"... many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." - Princess of Sweet Rhyme Via
"Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign of fear; and fear is a sign that someone has temporarily forgotten that it's never too late to change their thoughts and therefore their "things." And for these reasons, time will forever be on their side." - The Universe
"People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning." - Dr. W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) consultant, teacher
"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster." - Zippy the Pinhead

25 March 2008

Scrolling Map Display Tests : http://xalthorn.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/scrolling-map-display-tests/#comment-119

(Beta) Image Search Engine : http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=3419370&epmid=3&partner=Google

Guide to Making Sitemaps : http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_lazy_ia_s_guide_to_making_sitemaps

Online test to see how pixelated photos can get before we fail to recognize faces.

This Is Your Brain On Jazz : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226213431.htm Via

Good 'grid size' questions : http://code.google.com/p/pyglet/wiki/Scene2dIdeas

Body Mapping Via : http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/2007/05/el-mapa-di-mi-cuerpo-tatiana-parcero.html

Not sure how Who Owns 88.106.249.151? got directly from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-making-so-easy-caveman-could-do-it.html to http://greatmap.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-maps-now-mashable-google-has.html

(Posted by peacay at 1:00 AM on November 7) 'I discovered the wonderful strange maps site last week via another site worthy of a plug, Great Map.' Via

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"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down."- Stanislaw Lem
"Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster.” - Saul Bellow
"Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof." - Stephen Leacock
"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them." - Anonymous
"When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through." - I. Ching

24 March 2008

More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online Via

Math Visualizations : http://www.flickr.com/photos/de_gregorio/sets/72157602235957120/show/ Via

A new way to read(?) : http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/03/reader-and-aria-new-way-to-read.html

(Thread) 'sample code that shows how to properly draw a hexagonal map' : http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread489614.html

Being Held Hostage by Information Overload

Compfight : http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/compfight-powerful-s.html tool that uses Flickr's API to search the database of photos (including the option to do full-text search on titles and descriptions, and to limit searches to Creative Commons licensed works only) and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails.

BeeBirth Pic

Warez

Woven products

Featured

Still applies ---->>>>>

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the ilusion of knowledge itself." - unknown
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." - FRANCIS BACON
"At most we have created the artist, but not the art." - Via
"Art is primarily a question of form, not of content." - Paul Rand
"It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful thing to happen" -Frances Burnett

20 March 2008

The Cubicon Platform : http://www.coretalk.net/EnablingaSemanticNet/index.htm Enabling a Semantic Net Environment (and providing a Topic Map producer the capability to charge a consumer for knowledge on a per situation service access basis.)

Freevolution : http://cobra.innerheight.com/freevolution/index.php/Main_Page is an isometric dhtml game engine, using "state of the art" techniques like ajax and xhtml/css.

The Right Way To Think About Site Maps Via http://www.megite.com/top/sitemap

AJAX Tutorials

SocialNetworking Map :
http://annahai.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/social-networking/

Free http://www.smartdraw.com/downloads/ (start by selecting the exact template you need from over a hundred different types).

Largest Mind Map in the World : http://www.buzan.com.au/Global-Mind-Map-Conference.html

(e-book) Global Warming: A Mind Mapper’s Guide to the Science and Solutions (PDF, 5 MB / 103 pages).

Happitude : http://www.happitude.com/?p=91 http://www.happitude.com/?p=91 (set of latitude and longitude coordinates are sewn cryptically above the bill, where a sports or brand logo is typically found).

Via : http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbescher2.htm ---->>>>

"To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards." - FRANCES WICKES
"We can ‘visualize’ our thinking as well as verbalize it." -Ricky Ho
"The more seeds you sow, the more plants we'll grow." - The Universe
"You can’t hit a target you cannot see, And you cannot see a target you do not have." - Zig Ziglar
"You are lost the instant you know what the result will be." - JUAN GRIS

19 March 2008

Summary of elementary design principles used : http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/flakes.html

Composer TimeLines : http://www.lukemastin.com/music/dates.html

TouchCaller : http://touchcaller.en.softonic.com/pocket (another 'A la Touch' interface). Via

Example Zoomed ClustrMap : http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://clustrmaps.com&clusters=yes&type=small&category=plus&map=CZ

(Tri)hexaflexagon video : http://www.thepeaceofpaper.robogumby.com/2007/02/16/let%E2%80%99s-make-a-flexagon/

The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography

Even http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=131.137.245.199 is searching http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Great%20Map&btnG=Search&meta=

Dutch Map Cartouches : http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/03/leiden-blaeu-maps.html

What's the difference between http://www.londondrugs.com/LDPS/psCategories/psProducts/Posters/ and Enlargements ?

Vice President of Research and Development4 : http://www.zoominfo.com/search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=819609408 (Gladys Kong)

"The landscape you see can change only when you pass through it." - David Gatten Via
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - ?
"Trust that still, small voice that says, 'This might work and I’ll try it.'" - DIANE MARIECH
"Wise men don't need to prove their point.. men who need to prove their point aren't wise." - Lao Tzu
"I saw this familiar--too familiar--fact at a different angle, and I was charmed and haunted by it." - Thoreau

17 March 2008

Works by abstract visual artists still have the potential to captivate a wide audience, yet comparable aural offerings are enjoyed by only a handful : http://www.newmusicbox.org/chatter/chatter.nmbx?id=5409

MindMap Art Curatorial Essay : http://www.olexander.ca/mindmap.html

Off The Map Projects : http://10.futuresonic.com/urban_play/off_the_map_projects/

(Book) Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography : http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2006/08/09/milestones-in-the-history-of-thematic-cartography/

(Definition) know·bod·y [noh-bod-ee, -buhd-ee, -buh-dee]n. 1. a person who is unassuming, helpful and knowledgable 2. a librarian

Listed as a Flickr contact here : http://www.flickr.com/people/justicelibby/contacts/

Artist / Activist centre : http://socialinnovation.ca/sites/default/files/CSI%20Hot%20Desk%20Promo.pdf

Mindjet’s Public Relations Damage Control Machine Revs Up

New Study: Big Ideas Linked to Sleep

Routes Routes ('map collage' originally uploaded by selflesh )

"Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example."- Anonymous
"... the wise may become great by becoming small." - Lao Tzu
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things" - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"Preparing for beyond the 'end result' is better than simply seeing the 'end result'. - TU
"All roads lead to the same blocked intersection." - The Mountain Goats