Wednesday, December 6, 2006

http://hcl.harvard.edu/mercatorglobes/about_the_navigator.html based on the solid geometry of regular polyhedra.

Zooming User Interfaces (ZUIs) where zooming is a fundamental part of the user's interaction with the computer (also known as multiscale interfaces). Click on squares on the right

3D Mind Mapping : http://www.petillant.com/IMG/pdf/3DMindMapping20051.pdf (PDF)

RecreationMaps : http://www.recreationmaps.gov/viewer/ Via http://ajaxredux.com/forum/stories.php?story=05/03/25/8364157

Human FootPrint Layer : http://labs.metacarta.com/wms-c/demo.html (also serves as a tile caching demo).

Hacking Knowledge : http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/hacking-knowledge(77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better).

Hexagonal style isometric environments are popular amongst RPG like games like Age of Wonders and Hexplore, but also used in other game genres like Civilization II. Via

Geomatics Innovation in the Marketplace : http://govm.geospatial-online.com/gssgovm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=389107

The Internet Archive’s Collections Team started this blog : http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/ to highlight new collections and interesting items from the Movies, Audio, and Education collections. Via

Leading Open Source web mapping group : http://www.dmsolutions.ca/sitemap.html

Quality Satellite Image Prints : http://www.satprints.com/

An enlightened search

The 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments

Somebody at Google really likes something I noted last September. Y'er welcome.

Diaspora : http://www.utpjournals.com/diaspora/diaspora.html is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas A. Huxley
"We work to become, not to acquire." - Elbert Hubbard
"As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance." - Hui-neng
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"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

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