"Putting those together, one can take the depth image from the Kinect and turn it in to a metric point cloud with real distances. Then, those points can be projected back to the RGB camera centre to determine which RGB pixel corresponds to each depth point, and hence arrive a colour for each point in the cloud."

"Basically: this is a graph representation of the similarity relationships derived from the database of Last.fm. The circles (vertices) on the left hand side figure are bands, musicians, composers, whatever you will find in the Music section of the site. Lines (edges) connect similar artists."

"'All the populations are quite similar, but the differences are sufficient that it should be possible to devise a forensic test to tell which country in Europe an individual probably comes from', said Manfred Kayser"

"An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking -- connect and communicate."

"Printable world map in this page is free of charge. You can use free map for Web site, Publication, TV, Education, Work, and as you like."

"There are several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world and rank countries as being free, partly free, or unfree using various measures of freedom, including political rights, economic r

"Spamming IPs per ASN detected by spamshield.org: Last 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes."

A massive site with many photos and maps of Edinburgh, old and new.

As title.

A very interesting flash visualisation tool that creates animated graphs for certain statistics on international development.

Up-to-date images of the earth from an ESA satellite.

GFDLd tube maps!

Google Maps with an added pedometer. Bound to run into some need for this in the future *boom-tsh!*.

"Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on." Animated map of who has controlled what in the middle east.

A visulization of Amazon's "Customers who bought this item also bought..." system for political books.

"Where art meets science."

Make your own Google maps with markers and t'ings.

Learn how to integrate maps into web pages, extend the mapping feature to mark locations of interest to your site users, and more.

Basic flight sim that uses Google maps, very nifty, although you can only select a select number of cities to fly over.

A blog on 3D representations of urban environments.

Drive through the streets of San Francisco or Seattle with this Microsoft Local Virtual Earth preview.