What’s Next for the Google Maps API? (PDF) forthcoming book

Iterated Function Systems : http://www.wwwdotorg.org/ifs/ifs.html is a method of compressing simple self-similar images.

Polyhexes from an hexagonal (honeycomb) grid.

Dual LCD Monitors : http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jIahHmoaw (Pirillo discussion)

Trulia Hindsight Map mashup that shows when houses in specific neighborhoods were built by plotting them on an animated timeline (or Hindsight Demo Video). Via

Map to Hell featuring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan

(John Michell's) New Jerusalem Diagrams : http://members.tripod.com/~TheHOPE/njframe.htm

De Bono Hats : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

Poetic performance

"It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one." - Yarns
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"Life is half spent before we know what it is." - George Herbert (Jacula Prudentum, 1651)
"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." - Anonymous
"... I never occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars." - Andre Gide (Journals, 4 Aug 1930)