Oslo in Pictures - Two pages of pictures from Oslo, with thumbnails and large high-resolution versions. Some pictures taken at night.
Clickwalk Norway - Panoramic 'walk-through' views of a number of Norwegian cities including Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, and Trondheim.
Bergen Guide maps - Several downloadable maps of Bergen and the surrounding area.
Stavanger Guide - Service providing the Stavanger city map in 30 languages and district and regional maps in 6 languages. Maps are provided in PDF and Pocket PC format.
Clickable/zoomable map of Norway - A map of Norway which allows zooming in/out and moving around. The zoom allows viewing of the map to an extremely high level of detail.
Clickable Map of Norway - User navigable maps of Norway including georeferenced public agencies and institutions.
Norway photo gallery - Central Norway, Vesterålen, Lofoten - Professional photography (fairly small images) of locations in Central Norway and the Vesterålen and Lofoten Islands around Midsummer's Day. Requires Macromedia Flash Player 5+.
Webcams in Norway - A large and regularly updated repository of links to webcams in Norway. Searchable by area, town and location and has fast browsing system to quickly look at cameras.
Photos from Ringerike - Photographs from Ringerike, Norway. New photographs added on request.
Voss Now - Daily photographs from locations around Voss with large, searchable archive.
Photographs from Norway - A selection of photographs taken in 2001 showing flora, scenery and other rural places of interest in Norway.
Ski map of Nordseter and Sjusjøen area - A map showing the ski areas within the region of Nordseter and Sjusjøen (close to the Olympic town of Lillehammer).
Scenery in Norway - A variety of photographs showing scenery and nature in Norway.
Earth Photography: Norway - Travel and nature photography from Norway's fjordlands including Jostedalsbreen National Park, Geirangerfjord and Trondheim.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Maps and Views Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Maps and Views
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Maps and Views Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Maps and Views
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Maps and Views Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Maps and Views
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Maps and Views
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Maps and Views
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Maps and Views A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Maps and Views I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Maps and Views
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Maps and Views
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Maps and Views "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What's new? Most of my wife. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maps and Views "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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