“Data Viz: Why Now?” : http://clients.stamen.com/talks/uxweek06/slides.html to see the slides. Also links to all the projects I mentioned. Via http://clients.stamen.com/talks/uxweek06/ and http://www.ideaconference.org/blog/?p=9

Thematic Mapping of a Blog : http://knowledgeuser.typepad.com/weblog/2006/08/thematic_mappin.html Navigate a Blog using dynamic thematic mapping.

Political 'border /coastline' idea explored further : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/PeaceMap/MAPSwithOUTborders.htm

Commission on Map GENERALISATION AND MULTIPLE REPRESENTATION : http://aci.ign.fr/ Via http://www.geo.unizh.ch/ICA/docs/mainlevel/home.html See 'Boundaries around concepts' in Summary of 2006 Workshop

Talking Map : http://www.gemsinisrael.com/talkingmaps.html to hear the correct pronunciation of place names. Via http://israel.oymap.com/maps.html

Interest Map of Popular keywords : http://www.pacificepoch.com/interestmap.php (Click on any keyword to get related news, highlights indicate related keywords, darker shade means stronger relationship).

'Map' art / graphics : http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/search

Layla Curtis, an artist, has created some new maps by putting together a collage of old ones. Via http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-maps-out-of-old.html

The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain : http://www.artnewengland.com/issues/December_January_2006/books_rose.html "Building a wall to mark a political boundary and to ensure a separation between people seems like an anachronistic undertaking... fortifying walls would appear to have been outmoded as a defensive strategy. Yet... 20th-century warfare and air transport did not spell the end of the wall as a political tool." See border images at Amazon.

HOW THE USE OF CARTOONS CAN HELP YOU, YOUR COMPANY, OR YOUR CLIENTS : http://www.cartoonstudio.co.uk/

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." - Samuel Johnson
"The photograph is a thin slice of space as well as time." - S. Sontag, On Photography, 1977
"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead
“Be yourselves." - Lee Konitz (alto sax player)
"No one [Freud] announced, lives in the real world. We occupy a space of our own creation — a collage compounded of bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations." - Willard Galin, Feelings, 1979
"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin