Google Maps, the fool's gold of mashups : http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/index.php?p=178

Complementary Knowledge Analysis / Mapping Process : http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/dropknow.php Via http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/

Information Visualization : http://www.eicstes.org/EICSTES_PDF/Deliverables/Information%20Visualization.pdf Example screenshots .

Map of Human Knowledge : http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/Map/Map.html

15 Views of a Node Link Graph : An Information Visualization Portfolio : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6229232330597040086 Google Video

Visualizing The Tipping Point : http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/07/visualizing_the.html

Google Map Panoramas : http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-map-panoramas.html?&tags=Mapping

'maps can be employed to help make sense of the flood of information we are confronted with and ... domain maps can be used to locate complex and beautiful information' : http://vw.indiana.edu/places&spaces/browse/show-all.php

Dangerous Beaches Mapping Project : http://geography.berkeley.edu/projectsresources/DangerousBeaches/DangerousBeaches.html

Visual Computing and Human Interaction (centres of research) :
Center for Visual Computing (CVC / SUNY at Stony Brook)
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL / University of Illinois, Chicago)
Human Interface Technology Lab (University of Washington)
Human-Computer Interaction Lab (University of Maryland)
Image and Meaning Initiative (IM / MIT)
Imager Laboratory (University of British Columbia)
Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV / IC Davis)
Media Research Lab (NYU)
Stanford University Graphics Laboratory
Vangough Lab (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

Layla Curtis - Map collages : http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=1116 (Discussion)

Free Image Sources; Morgue File , Flickr's Creative Commons pool , Image*After , Stock.xchng, Picture Station

'The big rocks in the jar' story : http://makingalife.blogspot.com/2005/10/big-rocks-in-jar-of-our-life.html

"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances." - Euripides
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience." - Benjamin Franklin
"We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal
"Time is on your side, space is just an illusion, and matter is simply a little way of showing you exactly what you've been thinking lately." - TU
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George
"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens." - Desmond Tutu