New SketchUp : What's it mean for GIS?

Geometric Visualization of Hexagonal Hierarchies: Animation and Virtual Reality (Classic) includes animations.

Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Worlds (PDF)

ONLINE BOOKS page : http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.

Euler, Topic Maps, and Revolution : http://www.infoloom.com/tmsample/pep4.htm

(Animated) Tree Hardiness Map : http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm

Metaphors, analogies, thought mappings (Tufte discussion) article in American Scientist Magazine.

Pervasive Fun : http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_1/luthiger/index.html#author

Smithsonian Institution (PDF) - View as HTML The Power of Maps. exhibition Visitor Study.

FAMOUS MAPMAKERS : http://www.loeb-larocque.com/mapmaker.html

http://www.slmaps.com/ compilation of older Linden Lab maps of the grid, resources for interpreting the Magellan Linden "Dingbat" maps, a somewhat interactive timeline-style map of the grid, flash maps of grid expansion, and links to similar fansites.

(Another gaming) Maps Message Board : http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/topics.mv?id=159

Shepherd, Cartographer, and Android : http://www.jasonjay.com/papers/shepherd.htm (An exploration of the archetypes and technologies of spiritual direction).

FlickrBackup : http://sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/ Open Source (i.e. free) software downloads to your Mac, PC or Linux machine and then sucks all your original photos from your online account onto your hard disk. It even keeps them organised into the sets you had arranged them on beforehand. Via

WhoIs : http://www.whois.ws/whois-com/rwild.com/

'Seeing' Art Quotations

Background on the tree planting; "The barren grounds of the hills were planted with Jerusalem's pines, their roots nursing on blood absorbed in the ground."

"That the size of a dream has no bearing on its ability to come true." - TU
"Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice." - C. Alexander
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - ?
"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it." - W. Chrysler Via
"We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents." - Bob Ross