Archive | March, 2005
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Creative Education Foundation is the centre for Applied Imagination

According to their Mission, the Creative Education Foundation: is the center for Applied Imagination – helping individuals, organizations and communities transform themselves as they confront real-world challenges. The Creative Education Foundation is a non-profit membership organization of leaders in the field of creativity theory and practice. Every day CEF is helping someone, somewhere in the world develop new products, make business operations run more profitably, restructure government agencies to become more effective and less encumbered, reinvigorate economies, make improvements in our schools, revitalize communities and replace old, ineffective methods and [...]


Free Web Applications and Services
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US Memory Championship

On Slate Magazine, "Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship." By Joshua Foer. Here is an expert: To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. Only one lives in the United [...]


The Memory
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Tools for Thinking and Organizing Information

Tools for Thinking and its linked website Tools for Organizing Information are a sprawling but not too well organized resource for those interested in mindware and related software. There is a note at the beginning of the pages by the author Andris Klaxons warning that the pages are undergoing construction. The sites are worth visiting because the links that work and the connection of ideas is of interest.


Getting Organized, New Technology
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