Q-Links

Q-Links? Yeah!

The meaning of "Links" is evident. It's all about my favourites. Absolute favourites? No. Surprising, nice to know or remember, good idea, great logic, splendid design ... These are the kind of qualifications that make me bookmark websites on this blog. For what sake? Memory support and ease. To whose benefit? Primary ... mine! Secondary ... with no extra effort ... I serve everyone with the same interests, but with less time or patience to find the pearls in the sea we call the internet. Be invited to explore my treasury and feel free to react on the comments. 

So the "Q" stands for "Qualified" or "Quality"? No ... but who cares? Have fun and grow wise, 

Henk

Midway

Too horrible to watch with a conscious mind: Midway. Message from the Gyre. Thanks to YouTube being the channel that makes it possible that also these inconvenient truths are shared.

The maker of this sad document is Chris Jordan. Check his personal website for other visual statements that should inspire us to act.

BRAINMAPS

ABOUT - BRAINMAPS.ORG - BRAIN ATLAS, BRAIN MAPS, BRAIN STRUCTURE, NEUROINFORMATICS, BRAIN, STEREOTAXIC ATLAS, NEUROSCIENCE. Yeah ... as they call it: "what google does for the earth, we do it for the brain!"

Achtphasen, a special blog

Marc Fasnacht made an absolutely stunning weblog. Most of the content is in german. The fontsize is frustrating small. The interface, menu and search ability do not meet any standard or minimal requirements. Nevertheless it's a very stimulating website with high value links to several serious, inspiring or arty subjects.

TrendStop

TrendStop claims to be "the essential fashion trend decoder for fashion industry". Okay ... they are or they are not. Anyhow the idea of trendspotting and exploiting it this way is inspiring.  

Timeline Software for Mac OS X

Bee Docs Timeline illustrates how the timeline applications will develop. Their 3D option is a good idea (to respect context and detail) that needs further sophistication. But look at the platforms they are serving. Than: Imagine how important the context of time and the sequence of things are ...

TimeRime

I forecasted an intensified interest for timelines and the consequential development of timeline software. TimeRime Business Solutions shows an example which way it is developing. This software is already much better than everything released before. Mark my words: "It's only the beginning!" 

Boek publiceren?

Shaker Media is een nieuwe (?) speler op de markt van on demand boekdrukken. Hoe goed ze zijn weet ik niet maar het ziet er op de website allemaal verzorgd uit.

Drukkosten zijn in vergelijking met lulu zeer aantrekkelijk. Het assortiment papier en omslagen is veel groter. Beide uitgevers hebben een online calculatieprogramma waarmee u de diverse opties kunt vergelijken.  

Concept artists

To get an impression of what can be done by means of digital techniques you just have to enter the gaming circuit. For those who are less dynamic ... HERE are some links to the men (few women in this business) who create the worlds and the characters. Click HERE for some outstanding studios. Very impressive and well presented are the artworks of Carbon Canyon Studios.

Concept Design

Concept Design Workshop is a blog with a sidebar filled with very valuable links for those who like to get informed or trained in concept design or have interest in related digital tools and other resources. 

THE TIMES 200 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

THE TIMES 200 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY met iedere naam gelinkt aan de als meest relevant beoordeeelde website over de betreffende kunstenaar.

Daaronder kleine internet juweeltjes zoals de timeline van Klimt.

cognitive fun!

All kinds of tests to get an idea of your reaction speed and other properties of your mind. Cognitive fun! they call it! 

New Dualism Archive

A philosophical archive for the constructive study of substance dualism: www.newdualism.org.

Semantic Primes

One of the main internetsources on the phenomenon of Natural semantic metalanguage is NSM Semantics in Brief. I still do not understand is why this has had so little influence on the philosophical discours. This seems pretty important for epistomology (theory of knowledge). 

Historische hoogtepunten van grafische verwerking

Een interessant overzicht van het ontstaan en gebruik van grafische elementen voor informatieoverdracht (en links naar meer informatie) biedt: Historische hoogtepunten van grafische verwerking.

Veel uitgebreider is: Gallery of Data Visualization, The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics

Appreciative Inquiry

What is Appreciative Inquiry?  (click the link for the full article and further info)

Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives “life” to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential.

Micro-inequity

Micro-inequity  and Micro-affirmations seem to be very important for the effectiveness of collaboration because of the way they influence motivation and self-esteem of co-workers. In this wiki it's heavily related to race and gender. It seems to me however that these expressions of attitude and opinion are important for the development of every relationship. 

Critical thinking

I inserted the category "Skepticism" because I consider "thinking for yourself" combined with a certain rate of doubt and distrust of authority a valuable atttitude. But maybe "critical thinking" would have been a better term for this interest. 

Wikipedia defines it as:

Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true.

Intute links to expertise

Intute offers a wide range of free web resources on all kinds of subjects ... Looking for quality links ... Q-links shows you where to go!

Skepsis in Nederland

Stichting Skepsis onderzoekt pseudowetenschap en het paranormale. Geweldig leesvoer onder de kop "skeptische artikelen" voor diegenen die hun kop niet in andermans (los) zand wensen te steken.

I could not have said it better!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know...." (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race). What I do: I am interested in how to live in a world we don’t understand very well –in other words, while most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused us on how to turn knowledge into decisions, I am interested in how to turn lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of “knowledge” into decisions –how not to be a “turkey”.

How Taleb thinks about economics is summarized in the article "Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world"

Michael Shermer

One of the guys leading the skeptic discussions in the US: Michael Shermer .

Here you can find a presentation of Shermer. 

Skeptic detail that puzzles me: Why is the sponsor BMW?

SketchUp

Fred Bartels does things his way: Design With SketchUp. Special!

Learning Theories

In stead of wikipedia you might enter the world of Learning Theories on this bright site.

Twitter

And finally I couldn't resist it! What the hell is twitter? Twitter: What are you doing?.

The good news: The dynamic comic "Twitter in plain english" ... Great idea to use such basic comic tools to get your message landed.

And this is the company the did it: Common craft, "our product is explanation". Brilliant!

Best Online Collaboration Tools

Great example of mindmap use for datacollection. Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009 - Robin Good's Collaborative Map - MindMeister Mind Map. Data offer a lot of links to state of the art webbased tools.

What old people do for fun!

Zentation.com - Share Presentation.

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The Art of Innovation

Nice informative presentation on special platform .... 

Zentation.com Presentation - Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Innovation.

Kawasaki's version of what's required for successful innovation:

DICEE: Deep, Intelligent, Complete, Elegant and Emotive. And indeed he comes up with some nice examples.

S C R I B B L E R

Leuk om te doen, prachtig om te maken, fascinerend om te bedenken waar dit eindigt ... S C R I B B L E R.

Tao

De Tao Te Tjing in woord en beeld.

EDGE

EDGE to keep up with what others are bothered with.