This is good. It’s about not being the kind of extrovert traveler that guide books are written by and for.

We’re also not bed-and-breakfast people, if breakfast with other guests is mandatory. (“Where y’all from?” we joke to each other. The mating call of the B&B guest.) I once read about a B&B where the owner collected antique hats that guests were encouraged to wear to breakfast. Really? That sounds fun to people?

Rings a few bells.

here

Elegant and stylish, shame they’re not the official ones.

here

Nope, not a post-2012 tube map, but another visualisation. This is “Web Trends 2009″. It’s huge. The state of the Internet according to information architects, Information Architects.

Print it out! Make a board game!

Small girl briefs Dad, then crits work until happy.

http://tinyartdirector.blogspot.com/

www.inbflat.net

www.jasuto.com/site/
looks amazing

Some cool ways to present and view data:

Browse differently through FlickR pictures and see associated tags with taggalaxy and tagnautica.

FlickR image clock enables you to browse videos that people have recently uploaded.

Try geographic visualization on Google Maps with Flickrvision and Twittervision.

New York Times visualization lab is a good source of inspiration.

Visual complexity shows you how to present complex data.

Click here to visit the San Francisco Moma from home.

View Radiohead’s “House of cards” video clip and learn more about the technology behind it.

Amaztype is a typographic book search, it collects the information from Amazon and presents it in the form of keyword you’ve provided.

Visualize the power struggle in Wikipedia.

Spacetime all of your search results in Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Flickr, eBay in a 3D arrangement.

UBrowser renders interactive web pages onto geometry.