"...usable and interesting interactive map "On the American Trail" is the site’s main asset. The (Flash) design provides easy access to dense information and it utilizes numerous rollovers that visually assure visitors which locale they’ve selected. A secondary color-coded, numbered navigation system remains in place even when the layout changes to display text and photos. : http://www.commarts.com/ca/interactive/cai01/24_ia01.html (from Interactive Design Annual 7).

New zoom/compression software : http://www.digitaloutput.net/content/ContentCT.asp?P=199 (VFZoom uses a vector model for resizing the image).

Merged (sea) observations from a wide range of platforms are available for interactive display. :http://seacoos.org/Data%20Access%20and%20Mapping/InteractiveMap (Multiple Map Layers)

The Orange County Museum of Art launches the Orange Lounge at South Coast Plaza, the first museum space on the West Coast devoted exclusively to the presentation and interpretation of video, computer and Internet-based art, audio works, and other forms of new media. :http://www.ocma.net/orangelounge/
(100+ violated copyrights and) the very best in contemporary character design and art : http://www.pictoplasma.com/war/index_pos.html

A sampling of "billion dollar" ideas : http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=P1143_0_6_0_C

From http://lila.yft.com/Quotes.html : (from first 300 / 800)
"Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path." - Herman Hesse
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
" I am what I think you think I am". - Bleiberg and Leubling
"We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful." - Lao Tzu
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe
"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." - Charles H. Parkhurst
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent." - Will Durant
"I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, there is where the artistry lies!!" - Artur Schnabel
" If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank A. Clark
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is." - Wall Street Journal
"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." - Jan McKeithen
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"How a person masters his fate is more important then what his fate is." - Wilhelm von Humboldt
"We usually see only the things we are looking for--so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not." - Eric Hoffer
"An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it." - Marilyn vos Savant
"Far away is only far away if you don't go there." - Reader's Digest

"The map is not the territory, it does however give you a starting point and an overview. Showing where you are and where you want to be. There's always more than one route to get there. Remember decision implies choice... ." - Anon