Friday, August 4, 2006

Phoogle the Web : http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/publications/2005/walter05_phowo.pdf
– Google’s Approach to Spatial Data Visualisation

Blast Maps : http://www.nuclearterror.org/blastmaps.html three concentric circles show the devastation that would be wrought by a nuclear weapon. Via http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/archives.php?issue=20060727&style=web&length=short

International Boundary Studies : http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/numericalibs.html

Sketched a map at http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/Images/CIPSBOKmap.jpg of the IT Body of Knowledge (BOK) outlined at http://www.cips.ca/standards/isp/bok

Some of the net's favorite products (Flickr, Blogger,...) were accidental : http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/28/flickr-blogger-some-of-the-nets-favorite-products-were-accide/

Two-dimensional maps, fundamental to the understanding of political borders, have been drawn again and again for the West Bank. Each time they have failed to capture its vertical divisions. : http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=45&articleId=631

Basic HTML: Manipulating Images : http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478191 covers Placement On Page , Aligning Text With Images, Changing Image Size , and The HR Command

Photo-montage creator : http://www.imagegenerator.net/

How Does Complexity Theory Suggest We Act ? : http://www.calresco.org/action.htm#act

Blogged here 18 July : http://www.followtothesun.blogspot.com/ 'Quest for order'.

Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/

"Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village, Cyprus has a map on its flag, The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator, Tom Cruise's name was Thomas Mapother, before he changed it." - http://www.uselessfacts.ca/

He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand.
"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?''
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply ``They are merely conventional signs! `
`Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Bellman to thank''
(So the crew would protest) ``that he's bought us the best--- A perfect and absolute blank!''
This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell. http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/carrol03.html ; Fit the Second)

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mohandas Gandhi
"I tell people I'm not blind," he says. "I just can't see." - Ben (blind since age 3)
“I don’t know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I’ve had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.” - Harpo Marx
"That you do something is almost always far more important than what you do."- TU
"The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows, or the sound of the water when it is flowing." - Antonio Machado http://www.irealm.org/quotes/dispquote.php?page=m
"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door." - John Kenneth Galbraith

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