YouTube-style Embeddable Maps : http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/youtube-style-embeddable-maps_21.html Via

Charting New Territory (PDF) - View as HTML discuss the launch of online mapping tools provider Maphub .

Open Source web Operating System : http://www.eyeos.org/

(Map) Louisiana Purchase Via

An Atlas of Radical Cartography pairs artists, architects, designers, and collectives with writers to explore the map's role as political agent. These 10 mapping projects and critical essays take on social and political issues from globalization to garbage. Via

(In Geometry) A map associates to each element in one set a unique element in another set.

Peer-to-Patent : http://www.peertopatent.org/ opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Blog

Banff New Media Institute (locative media) Residency

Right ways of working with the left brain : http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/ArticleDetails.asp?a=273

(Wondering about your own attraction to data visualization) “is it the attention to superficial decoration, a creative design approach to visualization, the desire to merge beauty & functionality, or a general lack of effective information communication?” - infosthetics blog Via

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato
"The best way out is through." - Robert Frost