Sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML : http://www.frankmanno.com/ideas/css-imagemap/ (to provide image annotation functionality similar to available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginatrapani/1196925/ ).

..location aware devices (know your place) : http://www.headmap.org/ interesting manifesto at http://www.headmap.org/headmap.pdf

"We (Google-backed) have been building technology for digitising commercial city blocks from sideways-looking video taken from a vehicle driving down the street," writes Stanford researcher Marc Levoy on the project's homepage. "Possible applications include in-car navigation, online route visualisation, and web-based tourism." : http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7509

Dutch artist M. C. Escher tilings : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/escher.html

Stick Figures in Peril / Pool / Tags / sign : http://www.flickr.com/groups/stickfiguresinperil/pool/tags/sign/

"Point of view is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay

"Do what you love - and see what unfolds." - Gurteen

"The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler
"It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us." - Edmond Duranty
"Genius . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." - Ezra Pound
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it." - Author unknown
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." - Abraham Lincoln
"The willingness and ability to challenge conventional wisdom. Perhaps even more importantly, scientific genius depends on an instinct for invention, an ability to focus on the problem at hand, and a determination to pursue that problem to a successful conclusion." - Author unknown
(all from http://www.ecopsych.com/think3genius.html ).

"You must have chaos in your heart to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche