Google has been developing demo visualizations : see Even More Google Photos at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-24-n56.html Via http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/weblog/notes/cat_visualization.html

Making your own interactive memory map : http://www.madinpursuit.com/Tutorials/MemMap/MemoryMap_1.htm (using Photoshop & ImageReady).

Flickr Search thumbnail presentation : http://www.houserdesign.com/flickr/ and zooomr project http://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/flickr-has-some-catching-up-to-do/ (what a 17 year old Kristopher Tate can build in 3 months as a side project while working full time at meetro) launched on March 1, 2006.

CountryCode Map : See a HUMONGOUS and READABLE closeup (2.8Mb) Via : http://www.visibone.com/countries/

Map of Jerusalem : http://www.inisrael.com/maps/mapjr.pdf

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium : http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/ATC-Posters/ATC-F05.pdf of
Berkeley's Center for New Media. Via http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/

"Noise and elimination of the nonessential"(?) : http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/04/noise_and_the_e.html (or not?)

"Cartifact" = geographical artifactual visualization or cartographical
curiosities : http://www.kb.nl/persons/jan-smits/cartifact/intro.html

Another prolific mind-mapper: http://steves.blogharbor.com/blog?cmd=search&keywords=map did this book summary http://steves.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/19/1772216.html and File Attachment: Skills.pdf (279 KB)

This exhibition : http://www.hosoyaschaefer.com/seedamm_exhibition.htm looks at maps, art and myths (finding new ways to describe the identity of Switzerland) Via http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2006/03/16/mapping-swizterland/

Quasi-regular Polyhedra : http://www.ul.ie/~cahird/polyhedronmode/quasi.htm Animated Zoom :
http://www.ul.ie/~cahird/polyhedronmode/trunc_hex333.gif

Moonworks - http://www.issuemagazine.com/i8aock.html Kalpakjian’s project and perhaps the most ambitious artwork since Mt. Rushmore and Roden Crater— http://www.issuemagazine.com/i8artoverview.html

"There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle." - Zora Neale Hurston (1903 - 1960) Via http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Take-Powerful-Mental-Photographs&id=184928
"Good things in life take time and effort. Great things happen all at once." - ?
"“. . . he and Mr. Snopes were looking at exactly the same thing; it just wasn’t with the same eye.” - Faulkner , Charles Mallison, The Town, Chapter 10 http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/quotes.htm#Perspective
"seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here" - e. e. cummings