"Ambiguous displays invite interpretation. Mysterious signals demand investigation. Curious interfaces provoke play". Source: The Curious Interface: A Design Manifesto in Favor of Play (http://www.avantgame.com/The%20Curious%20Interface.pdf). Jane McGonigal 2003

I would like to do something like this; http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/05/flickr_maps_tak.html to allow people to add to a (non-geo of course) mind/concept base map. http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2390856 reference Flickr + Maps, Take 2:

Site-seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability : http://www.lukew.com/resources/site_seeing.html humans ought to be able to use the pictures to achieve their goals in an interactive system.

Another good map linking page : http://prophetess.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/maps.htm
Rich Information Design resources; http://designarchives.aiga.org/
Good source of logo/letters for future ransom notes; http://www.joeykatzen.com/alpha/ver3/

Is Pay Per Call the New Pay Per Click? ; http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=32652

From http://en.thinkexist.com/search/searchquotation.asp?search=map&page=2 :
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps."- Nelson DeMille
"Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip." - Jon Bon Jovi
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville
"You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than be consulting all the maps in the world." - Unknown
"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
H. Stanley Judd quotes
"A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it" - Annonomous
"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change." - Muhammad Ali
"The map is not the territory."- Alfred Korzybski (American scientist and philosopher, 1879-1950)
"Whether or not you're traveling, and whether or not you feel it, at this very moment you are one with the world, filled with purpose, and unimaginably vital." -The Universe
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James A. Baldwin
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore
"They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is." - Sir Thomas More, Utopia
"Everyone hates a sad professor"- REM