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Great Map using MapLib facility

The Graph of the Truncated Icosahedron and the Last Letter of Galois (PDF) - View as HTML

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html : uses Google's "related sites" feature to show what site is connected to each other. Via

You can now embed some NASA map servers into your own Swing apps: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2006/10/nasa_maps_in_yo.html using the JXMapViewer component in SwingX-WS.

Maps of European cities : http://www.welcome-2-europe.com/Maps_and_Views.html

Image forming method (US Patent) : http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6022673-description.html (
... shape composed of normal crystal such as cube, octahedron or tetradecahedron and a particle having plate-like shape of hexagon). Issued on February 8, 2000

Center for Knowledge Societies : http://www.cks.in/html/ (Bangalore, India) research and design practice that works in the area of media and technology. It uses variety of innovative social research tools, to understand user needs and practices to fine tune existing products and services and conceptualize altogether new technologies.

A Cartoon Epistemology : http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html An informal cartoon presentation of the central epistemological debate between naive realism and representationalism. Via http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/

New paradigm of holistic science : holistic science and systems theory ... (the systems approach or 'structuralism' ).

America’s official Tall Ships® : http://tallshipschallenge.wordpress.com/

Multi-step painting tutorial via http://drawn.ca/

The poem "Ithaca" by the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is recited by Sean Connery :
http://www.engelen.demon.nl/ithaca.htm (1 track CD performed by Vangelis); " ...May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time...".

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." - Anonymous
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine Via http://www.freemaninstitute.com/quotes.htm
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato, The Republic. Book II.
"We are all vulnerable to the unexplored." - Talmud
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. "- Alan Alda