Google Maps Now Mashable : Google has made it easier to create customized maps with a new MyMaps feature (Googleplex, 2004 Presidential election for example). Via

Interactive Visualization and Navigation using the Hyperbolic Space : http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~walter/h2vis/

Google Earth Hacks blog has a download, which overlays the map graphic (respliced with the 90° fix) atop the Australian landmass, so you can see 'Portuguese explorer Christopher de Mendonca led a small fleet into Botany Bay in 1522, more than 200 years ahead of Captain Cook, and ahead of Dutch explorers as well'. Via

Workingwith Server-side Image Maps : http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/Demo/Demo12.html

(Project Gutenberg eBook) Prince Henry the Navigator : http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18757/18757-h/18757-h.htm the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D

Putting a map on the map

Initial impressions of World Of Warcraft : http://www.blackgate.net/blog/index.php/initial-impressions-of-world-of-warcraft/

ALL ABOUT 2012 : http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine Via
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin
"The scary fact is that many of our dreams have come true." - Charles Eames Via