Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Visualising Information Structures : http://www.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/iicm_papers/kandrews_habil.pdf#search=%22VxInsight%20filesystem%22 [PDF]

Ask.com’s Binoculars : http://ajaxian.com/archives/askcoms-binoculars-help-or-hinderace - Help or Hinderance?

Hurricane Map : http://www.ibiseye.com/ A risk-estimator Web site that tracks Atlantic Ocean tropical storms.

3D User Interfaces : http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml

Label-All-Google’s-Content-For-It : http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/09/07/play-the-new-game-label-all-googles-content-for-it/ "Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash." - Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, Chapter 2.

Pop-up Paper : http://www.jensalmstrom.se/diy/popuppaper.html a folded paper that unfolds when you open it!

Is “Map” to “Geography” as “Map” is to “Ideas”? : http://dwax.org/oneman/blog/?p=265

Skypecast Examples (audio): part one (14 meg), part two (8 meg), part three (24 meg) Stephen Downes.

Take a tour of the data warehouse for the Web : http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6109900.html?part=rss&tag=6109900&subj=news (Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com.) 6 minutes 14 seconds video.

The Art of Narrative: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/nesilver/home Telling Stories in Words and Images

Canadians and Open Source : http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2194 It is nearly common knowledge that GIS finds its origins in government agencies in that great northern territory we know as Canada.

Flash Animations for Physics : http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/ including Chaos , Classical Mechanics , Optics , Vectors ...

Revisiting 25 years of the MacArthur Foundation's celebrated -- and mysterious -- `genius' grants (each of the 25 receive $500,000 over five years -- no strings attached -- courtesy of the $5.5 billion MacArthur Foundation).

The War on Tourism : http://home.chello.no/siamak.javid/etc/NewAirportSecurity.swf next phase.

Half an Hour: How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly : http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-write-articles-and-essays.html

The (infamous) 'artist's profile' : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/Profile.jpg

"The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible." - Jeff Taylor
"Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible." - William Van Winkle Via http://knowledgeuser.typepad.com/
"Once you're rich what will you do? (yes, precisely, you're already rich... so?)." - TU
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Your job is now to go way beyond wherever you were, to open up more territory, not to settle in." - Kerry James Marshall
"Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity." - George Bernard Shaw

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