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Sean Days’ Research into a group of 43 colour to letter synesthetes and the patterns he found  

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synesthesia

I have been researching synesthesia, specifically those that see colour with letters and numbers. It is my hope in this class to create a typing program that will apply the onscreen visuals of this form of synesthesia into said typing program. I.e. as you type letters and numbers will appear with a predetermined RGB colour setting. When the space bar (or enter) is hit the program will average the RGB levels of each letter and then change the entire word accordingly. 

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Take a virtual tour of the Rocky Mountains without leaving your couch. Outdoor junkie Billy Brown shows you some of the best views Colorado has to offer....

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The World Grid Ley Lines Vile Vortices Vortexes

(Scott McCaw, note:) Whether you believe or not (I tend to not), There has been a vast amount of effort by the human race to study and explain odd occurrences from prehistoric time carrying on very much today. I find it both fascinating and (as a skeptic) coincidental that many studies do yield interesting results.    

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ARCHAEOASTRONOMY - The Official Web Site of the Center for Archaeoastronomy and ISAAC.

(Scott McCaw, note:) In my studying this is one of the aspects that I am looking at as it pertains to mapping. Archaeoastronomy is, loosely, the study of how the ancients viewed and culturally interacted with the heavens. 

ar·chae·o·as·tron·o·my[ˌärkēōəˈstränəmē]

NOUN

the investigation of the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric cultures. Also called astroarchaeology.

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Deconstructing the Map J. B. HARLEY Reprinted from Cartographica, v. 26, n. 2 (Spring 1989), 1-20. A map says to you, "Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not." It says, "I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost." And indeed you are. Were all the maps in this world destroyed and vanished under the direction of some malevolent hand, each man would be blind again, each city be made a stranger to the next, each landmark become a meaningless signpost pointing to nothing. Yet, looking at it, feeling it, running a finger along its lines, it is a cold thing, a map, humourless and dull, born of calipers and a draughtsman's board. That coastline there, that ragged scraw of scarlet ink, shows neither sand nor sea nor rock; it speaks of no mariner, blundering full sail in wakeless seas, to bequeath, on sheepskin or a slab of wood, a priceless scribble to posterity. This brown blot that marks a mountain has, for the casual eye, no other significance, though twenty men, or ten, or only one, may have squandered life to climb it. Here is a valley, there a swamp, and there a desert; and here is a river that some curious and courageous soul, like a pencil in the hand of God, first traced with bleeding feet. —Beryl Markham, 1983

Beryl Markham, West with the Night. New York: North Point Press, 1983.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/4761530.0003.008?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Above is a link to a cool article on deconstructing a map.