If you’re looking to visualize — mindmap — an entry of Wikipedia, look no further than WikiMindMap. It can map your query to a tree-like structure that helps you to get a visual overview of the entry’s relationships to other relevant topics.
Have a look, for example, how WikiMindMap maps “Myanmar”.
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“The day computers crashed on the beach”
The front page scoop on the Sunday Morning Post of Hong Kong:
Tags: NewsThe isolated and picturesque beaches in Sai Kung Country Park are only accessible by a 40-minute hike over steep terrain or by boat. A government spokesman said the computers could have been dumped by smugglers.
The area was once a popular people-smuggling route and the beaches are frequently strewn with illegal cargo from the mainland and Hong Kong.
In February, tonnes of rotten pork and chicken washed up. Criminals steal trees in the area to sell across the border and fishermen have been caught dynamite-fishing in the area. But it may take time to solve the monitor mystery.
“You never know, it could be a work of art,” Mr Catozzo said.
The indomitable Bangkok Recorder webzine has mashed up Google map with Bangkok’s finest attractions. Now this is what I call service!
http://bangkokrecorder.com/google-map/bangkok-map.html
No tags for this post.Userstyles.com gives you the ability to override websites’ presentation by using your own — or canned — CSS stylesheet on Firefox. Nifty.
Advise on getting started is available at http://userstyles.org and an impressive list of ready-made styles is at http://userstyles.org/style/list site.
For Opera fans, I have a limited custom CSS solution at http://blog.kaivilmi.com/2006/opera-user-mode.
No tags for this post.Microsoft’s new beta app for its “Live” scheme of things, Windows Live Writer, lets you to update your blog from your desktop. So this is the first post — let’s see how it works.
It supports, among others, custom installations of WordPress, and sports Windows Live Local map integration. Just to sample the functions, below should be a road map of Singapore “live” from Microsoft’s servers. I’m rather thrilled to notice that Bill Gates in his infinite wisdom has seen proper to move the Padang from its customary location opposite of the City Hall to Zion Road quite facing the Great World City. Unless, of course, he is referring to the River Valley Nasi Padang shop that serves exquisite, err, nasi padang at only slightly inflated prices.
Update: It seems Mr. Gates’ cartographic knowledge leaves quite a bit to be desired: if you click on the image above, you will be transported to the heart of the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia, — famous for its Singaporean-owned industries, gambling, and, ahem, nightlife, to put it euphemistically.
Moving along, a picture from 1984 that got added an elegant photo paper frame and automatically uploaded to my WordPress image folder up in my server.
