The Interpretation of Bias (and the Bias of Interpretation)

Great local search apps for iOS

The Mathematics Behind Comics xkcd

Two-way (sending and receiving) short codes United States (40404) and Canada (21212)  SMS short codes for other countries

(Video) Quirky science tricks for parties

http://coilhouse.net/2011/08/nicole-aptekars-new-paper-explorations/

http://digitalartistsunite.deviantart.com/

A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months in U.S.

"... what if that knot-in-your-stomach wasn't something to be avoided, but a sign you're getting ready for something bigger?" - Jamie Broughton
"Perhaps merging Art with Math and Science is the new language needed today to help us achieve a new quantum level of human knowledge." - Rich Byrnes
"Having an idea is not special; creating a network around that idea is the comparative advantage." - @quixotic

"...you chose to be who you now are, you came here to thrive, the odds always seem steep, the game is rigged in your favor, you knew what you were doing,,,," - The Universe
"We can have more than we've got, because we can become more than we are." - Jim Roh

(SplashMaps)  Mapping-related KickStarter proposal (for fabric map based on Open data)

How Google's digital mapping is mapping us

Photoshop / Color modes

The bends of the traditional seven-turn labyrinth

Cinemagraphic : 'living picture' animations are like GIFs made from video, but you only animate selected portions of the image.  . Examples

(Rant) 3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers

http://darlenechrissley.com/10-step-creative-process/

http://www.onlineuniversity.net/100-awesome-online-tools-to-teach-yourself-any-instrument/

Where Dragons Come From?

"Live as if (life was easy, people were awesome, and you just haven't yet decided which of your favorite charities should receive your surprise $1 million gift.)". - TU
"WE CELEBRATE ALL THOSE WHO CREATE WORKS OF ART; THOSE WHO IMAGINE NEW COMMUNITIES; THOSE WHO HEAR THE NOTES OF AN UNSUNG TUNE. WE CELEBRATE THE ARTISTS. THE REBELS. THE ECCENTRICS. THE AGENTS OF CHANGE. THEY BUILD CITIES FROM RUINS. THEY EXPLORE. THEY INSPIRE. THEY FEED OUR SOULS AND NOURISH OUR SPIRITS. THEY CRÉATE THE FUTURE, AND BY DOING SO, CEMENT OUR HISTORY...." Via 
"Good artists sell, great artists are misunderstood." - R.B.Wild (after Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in." - Hugo Ball
"A person can rise to fame rather than notoriety by the same mechanism." - Via: article on the phenomenon of Human Flesh Search Engines in Asia  Via

Solitary thinker unveils a solution that’s either a dizzying advance—or a blind alley.

http://mydesignstories.com/portraits-on-maps/

(Fractal / Origami) 'Mosely Snowflake Sponge' Facebook page

(Fractal) Hive Mind : http://vitaloverdose.deviantart.com/art/Entrance-to-the-hive-mind-335933571

Advanced Origami

http://cfccreates.com/upload_files/ideaBOOSTParticipants.pdf

Sad ending ( A solo exhibition in celebration of life as an artist.... At the request of the family, all remaining art will be given away FREE) 

Starting from the very beginning, what happened in the Israel/Palestine area?

"Maybe being powerful means to be fragile." - Ai Weiwei
"Fast takes longer when you hurry (Keep calm and saunter on); slow gets faster when you're happy." - The Universe
"In order to arrive at what you are not, You must go through the way in which you are not." - T.S. Eliot, 'East Coke'

"Artists get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning from their work." - David Bayles and Ted Orland
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work." -  Frank Herbert

https://www.communitech.ca/what-really-happened-after-mappedin-left-the-dragons-den/

Prezi uses a map-like metaphor for creating presentations instead of a slideshow metaphor.

http://toronto.schmap.com/art-galleries 

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/

3D laminate sculpture

Found : http://www.ingenesist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/12j.jpg  (LibraryMap in use)

(Definition)  'prov·i·dence'/ˈprävədəns/  

Noun:

The protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power. God or nature as providing such care."

"The difference between being moments away from a big, HUGE dream coming true, rather than light-years, lies in physically behaving, day by day, as if the dream were real, and all else was a dream." - The Universe
"Just because it’s graphical, it doesn’t mean it’s useful." - Henry Woodbury

"Twitter makes me like people I’ve never met, and Facebook makes me hate people I know in real life." - @laurenahayes
"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end." - Benoit Mandelbrot
"If there comes a day when all art is digital, artworks will subsist in some ether whence they may be conjured to appear and vanish at our convenience." - Barry Schwabsky, art critic

Ghost Map (of Toronto)

The ultra high-resolution images of works, both famous and less well-known, can be freely downloaded, zoomed in on, shared, or manipulated copyright-free:   https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/mastermatcher  (Users can have prints made of entire works of art or details from them).

(Book) 'Exploration of Nanotechnology Image Galleries'

http://torontoist.com/2012/11/the-citys-new-graffiti-panel-renders-judgment-on-murals/

Cut Paper art

MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies artist / scientist (Joe Davis)  Via

(Definition) "prov·e·nance" : (pr v -n ns, -näns ). n. 1. Place of origin; derivation. 2. a. The history of the ownership of an object, especially when documented or authenticated.

Gone Fishing

"Whether obvious or not, and usually it's not, everyone in your life is there to help you, AND, they're actually doing so right now... Which, incidentally doesn't mean you have to keep them there. (In fact, their offering may simply be to teach you to say 'adios')." - TU
"Tempus fugit (Time flies)." - Virgil, 70BC
"You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.' - LexiPhile
"Who in the world am I?  Ahh, that is the great puzzle."- Lewis Carroll
"All generalizations are false." - @pickover

Twitter Tweet Map

(Video) Fibonacci's Fractals

http://www.scoop.it/t/infographics-for-students

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georigami/

Four Pillars of the Web of Things 

http://torontoist.com/2012/10/new-mobile-app-puts-torontos-past-in-users-hands/

(Definition) "steganography" : a form of concealed writing executed in such a manner that only the author and intended recipients are aware of its existence.

(Example) Science Art Fellow

"There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions (they're all you have and they're all you need)." - TU
"What mean ‘WE,’ white man!" - Tonto
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." - Jonathan Swift
"We live our short spans in the vortex of a miracle, and while we may not be the center of that vortex, it is magic to be anywhere in there." - Robert Genn
"...many of the images are small, or culled of context. Consider them a teaser." - Via

Map Visualizes 150 Years Of Hurricanes
 
Top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API

NACIS Atlas of Design

Flag flapping instability

http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Math.html

http://www.dezeen.com/tag/3d-printing/

(Women in Science)  Meet a Mathematician, a Physicist and a Geologist Through Art

http://collagegallery.org/

"Paintings don't just go bad like fruit left in a cupboard--they were already rotten when they were put in. We just can't see it at the time." - Robert Genn

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - Ernest Shackleton
"In order to arrive at what you do not know, You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance." - T.S. Eliot, 'East Coke'
"If I don't write, I'll die! - Stephen King
"Many people, including myself, might like what we see in "digital art", but have not yet digested the concept of producing art with a mouse and a computer." - Henry Z. Via