Google Grows With Inxight Search Extender : http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=193101278 provides better summaries and makes it easier for searchers to navigate through long documents (the results are automatically clustered on-the-fly).

View-Based Search Interfaces for the Semantic Web : http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2006/makela-view-based-search-2006.pdf#search=%22hyperbolic%20tree%20ajax%22 (PDF) - HTML-Version

Making Visualization Work : http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/presentations/MakingVisualizationWork-Bederson.ppt or View as HTML

Hexagon-based images : http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dunlapg/tiles/aao.html Example

Fibonacci Sequences Arising from Paperfolding : http://www.mevis.de/~anna/publications/goslar.pdf

Map Projections : http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_projections.html From Spherical Earth to Flat Map

Maps of War : http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Via http://www.mapsofwar.com/ via http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/10/middle-east-map-changes-through-time.html

Waymarking.com provides tools for you to catalog, mark and visit unique and interesting locations around the world. Example project : http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/default.aspx?f=-1&WTGUID=5fd76818-c3b2-49d6-952a-c599e7fe8c53 and related Image Gallery

All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging : http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-the-cool-kids-are-deep-tagging/

"Make Windows XP Start Faster" : http://askbobrankin.com/make_windows_xp_run_faster.html You can do all of these things yourself, and all of the software recommended is free.

Interesting discussion of the Smiley (map theft) affair on Public Radio "Where we live" program (aired Friday 29 September) : ">target=l>http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wnpr/local-wnpr-531786.mp3> The story runs about 25 minutes , beginning about 10 minutes into the program.

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Technology Blog Directory : http://dir.blogflux.com/cat/technology_19.html Listed

The Ideas Bank : http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/category.php?catId=19

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