the pages, I find the more they lie in ruins, the more inspiring the castles are. 

http://photos.dobi.nu/ 

uploading photos from Cambodia atm, I'm really tired and the connection is pretty slow now so I probably will stop in the middle of the process and continue some other day. 

Seems like there will only be material taken before going to Angkor today. 

http://russos.livejournal.com/210363.html 

Shame they didn't go the whole hog and have the entrance underwater though!

I noticed that if you click the 'Industrial' Journal tag link on that page there's loads of other entries full of the kind of rusty decaying stuff that usually get us quite excited :)

Also, I once spent six weeks on an archaological dig at Carew Castle in Wales. My knees have never been the same since. I am quite surprised by how few of those photos have sheep in them. 

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_076/index.shtml - Raskat launch pad for Energiya rocket with Russian Buran space shuttle (area 110, Baikonur cosmodrome, 29 March 2006)

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_077/index.shtml - UKSS universal complex launch pad (stand) for Energiya rocket (area 250, Baikonur cosmodrome, 29 March 2006)

The Energia rocket used same components as the Russian Buran space shuttle, just without the shuttle. It was launched only once - in 1987 for the Polyus space battle station. That failed. The Buran shuttle only flew once, in 1988, succesfully, without a crew and did an autonomous landing on a runway.

The big pipes are crew and personnel escape tubes, I think. 

http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm 

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_077/pages/Img_012.html

spoooooge 

A large collection of someone's travel photography. Includes cambodian temples, english churches, italian stucco, turkish minarets etc.

http://www.jorgetutor.com/viajes.htm 

http://foto.netwind.ru/albums/baikonur/ 

I've posted some photos of my weekend in Bruges on my site, maybe they can inspire some people, quite a bit of red brick houses and gothic-ish churches...
http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/bruges/ 

http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/bruges/IMG_4882.JPG.html

this one is nice 

not sure if it's for mapper's inspiration but
sunsets, sea, bridge...

http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/3517/greatsunset18fi.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/1433/bridge18008xn.jpg
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/3349/sea18004hm.jpg 

I need to read through this thread from the beginning and archive all of these links in some better format than func_messageboard. 

here, i made it with urltoys for 30 secs
http://vondur.net/files/inspiration.txt 

that clearly is a lot better to read / remember than here on this msgboard oO

you'd need descriptions with that to be of any use. 

http://russos.livejournal.com/224435.html 

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.pattern/lesson1art.html 

can URLtoys make those a=href's instead? :D 

linkification can :) 

yeah, andy linkification plugin for firefox would do that
http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/

and there are others i'm sure 

otay 

Is there anybody out there?! 

There's lots of great stuff there if you browse through his updates. Only bad thing is that the images aren't of better quality.

The more I look the more I feel it's a goldmine - long live soviet russia!