Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces : http://www.infres.enst.fr/net/zomit/avi2000/ "Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) are difficult to use on large information spaces in part because they provide insufficient context. Even after a short period of navigation users no longer know where they are in the information space nor where to find the information they are looking for."

Mapviewer (Chromosome map viewing tools) : http://www.sgn.cornell.edu/maps/mapviewer/mapviewerAbout.html

Different approaches to finding and exploring satellite imagery are offered by TerraFly, Google Maps, Terraserver.com, and TerraServer USA (operated by Microsoft Corporation as a research project; overview of how the service works).

Great Ideas of Philosophy (60 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) : http://www.teach12.com/ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/4200.asp

Rhetorical Topoi : A rhetorical device, topoi facilitate a shift of mind, to see ordinary problems from a new angle, so as to incite invention, spark discovery...Use topoi by posing questions, seeing things as opposites, making correlations, reversing definitions, rotating positions in argument, changing roles, overturning the standard, and so on. From http://www.udanium.com/udanium2003/html/sparks.htm

16 x 21 panels (each 2' square) http://www.muralmosaic.com/A-S/Alberta-Sask.html "The collective power of individual expression". (CELEBRATE ALBERTA - SASKATCHEWAN CENTENNIAL 1905 -2005!)

"To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world." from LETTER OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO ARTISTS, 1999 : http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists_en.html
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."- Ursula Le Guin
"The future belongs to those who fuse intelligence with faith, and who with courage and determination grope their way forward from chance to choice, from blind adaptation to creative evolution." - Charles E. Marriam
"The delight of creative work lies in self-discovery: you are mining nuggets of power out of your own cosmos, and the find comes as a great and glad surprise." - Elbert Hubbard
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Muriac
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
from http://maverickjs.tripod.com/hanger/thoughts7.html
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." - J. Krishnamurti
"The image is but a shadow, The truth is but a reflection of the whole, The whole cannot be told, Do not attempt to know, Be content with what you get, Do the best you can." - http://www.artists.co.il/ttc/nfquotes.html#qiamn
"Where" you are, is never who you are (it's just a transitory step along the path) . You're always Infinitely more." - The Universe
"Be light unto yourselves. Rely upon yourself; do not depend upon anyone else." - Buddha's last words