Check out Google's logo today, Feb 3rd. It's an esoteric one! Click on the logo to get individual gifs of the thingies. Should interest all the IA people and artists amongst us.
Here's who he are (was) (am) Oh, shoot. Anyways :
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/G/Gaston-Julia.htm

OH, that is SO NEAT! Who ever said math is boring?? My last math class was something like 1972, so I have never been actually taught these kinds of things. However (yay, wikipedia!) I find that I can understand at least the concepts of things with such wonderful names as Cantor Dust and Menger Sponge. Wow!

Try

http://www.people.nnov.ru/fractal/MSet/MJintro.htm

You can click on the images to zoom in or CTRL-click to zoom out.