500 bloggers interested in maps; http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=maps



Example RSS feed http://www.downes.ca/edu_rss.htm



In the 64 bit world we have the odd situation that AMD's Opteron is "Intel

compatible" and Intel's Itanium is not "Intel compatible".



Manifold contour examples http://home.cogeco.ca/~jburn_gis/samples.htm



Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada. As of today, millions of pages of archival heritage, in hundreds of archival institutions, have become the common property of all Canadians. You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing, or treating the material in any other way. It’s yours to enjoy and share with whomever, whenever, in whatever way you want. Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to die in 1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001659.shtml



Understanding comes from exploration



http://www.commonground.org.uk/ One of the projects that you may know us for, we call the Parish Maps Project - 'parish' meaning that little territory in which you feel at home, the neighbourhood, the locality. In 1986 we asked about 15 artists to make their own Parish Maps for us, in order to broadcast the idea that we'd experimented upon with communities in various places. Hundreds more people began taking it up. http://www.qldcan.org.au/shell/articleclifford_2000.html



I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way. --Frodo

No-one is ever told any story but their own. --Aslan

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. --Anonymous

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. --G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go... there you are. --Buckaroo Banzai



"It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning," said Defarge.

"How long," demanded madame, composedly, "does it take to make and store the lightning?" --Charles Dickens



I don't want to attain immortality through my works. I want to get it by not dying.

--Woody Allen

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself-- and you are the easiest person to fool. --Richard Feynman

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem it was intended to solve. --Karl Popper

There's no idea that's so good that you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots. --Scott

Adams

Progress is not made by early risers, it is made by lazy people looking for an easier way of doing something. --Robert Heinlein (probably)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. It follows that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw

People commonly use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support rather than for illumination. --Mark Twain

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. --Dan Quayle

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. --St. John Chrysostom

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. --John Barrymore

The unexamined life is not worth living. On the other hand, too much processing and you get Velveeta. --Duncan, VR5

The world should laugh more. But after having eaten.--Cantinflas

If you love Jesus, work for justice. Anybody can honk. --bumper sticker

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you can sell him equipment. --Avram Grumer

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either, just leave me alone. --unknown

Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. --Marie Laurencin

I do feel... that I now have a better understanding of what the key problems are than I did ten years ago. At times I even persuade myself that I can glimpse some of the answers, but this is a common delusion experienced by anyone who dwells too long on a single problem. --Francis Crick

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. --Orson Scott Card

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists-- not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction. --Edward Tenner

Consciousness is knowing what you thought last; free-will is not knowing what you'll think next. --Justin B. Rye

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. --Frank Zappa

However hard the Enterprise tries to boldly go where no man has gone before, it always finds people already there. --Justin B. Rye





Idea to have SiteMap show thumbnail jpgs of all linking pages (smaller images further "out") See www.upc.es sitemap for example, or http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/site.map.html



http://mooter.com:8080/moot visual presentation of search engine results.



http://www.highcontext.com/kmpings/ A collection of Knowledge Management TrackBack pings.



http://www.mapthemind.com/thinkingmaps/thinkingmaps.html http://www.thinkingmaps.com/



http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2003.html



According to a Yale University study, the following words are the most powerful words in the English language;

Money

Discovery

Save

Easy

New

Love

Health

Proven

You

Results

Guaranteed

Safety



"May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live."

"May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you."

"Dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening and live every day as if it were your last."



The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes - Marcel Proust



Here are some samples from the Denman Island map atlas, put together by Denman residents, as part of the Salish Sea Mapping Initiatives in the Gulf Islands. http://www3.telus.net/cground/maps.html