Second Life Library Project : http://secondlifelibrary.blogspot.com/2006/09/talis-announces-winners-of.html “an excellent example of taking information previously locked inside the library catalogue and making it available to patrons in other contexts where they may spend more time than they do in their catalogue.”

ridcat : http://brevity.org/code/ridcat/ - visualizing texts with a cloud of icons ( to analyse a text (especially a therapy session) for emotion-laden words, and note the statistical deviation from the norm).

AsianVolatilityMap : http://www.newgreatgame.com/excerpts.htm (shows the volatile strategic situation in Central Asia).

WWI / II Maps : http://www.victoriansatwar.net/archives/maps2.html (Australia) War maps, Propaganda maps, Barrage maps, Position maps, Trench maps, Escape maps, POW Camp maps, Newspaper maps

Snowflakesoft and the butterfly effect : developing XML applications for the GI industry.

Fractal tags : http://del.icio.us/alex34/fractals

No more boring data : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w (Hans Rosling) animation.

Claude Shannon reflected on how to juggle and arrived at some new mathematics: (F+D)H=(V+D)N ( his juggler machine movie).

Animated Mondrian (?) : http://www.spillsomepaint.com/animations/regular/popup.html Via

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"What if, instead of waiting for everything to be perfect, we start living our dreams this week, to any degree we can?" - The Universe
"The source code is the ultimate documentation." - Anjo Anjewierden
"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down." - Julia Cameron
"Imagine time standing still. Just for a second. " - Via