A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO A LONG STANDING CARTOGRAPHIC MYSTERY : http://www.hydrographicsociety.org/PDF/Journal-115-Article2.pdf Although it is the earliest portolan chart extant, the Carte Pisane has all of the same physical and intellectual characteristics of the portolan charts that come after it....The mystery is that it has no known ancestors.

Map Design : http://www.uninets.net/~sarihou/mapdesign.html tutorial links.

Election of the New 7 Wonders of the World : http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php Via http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/01/03/stonehenge_7_wonders_of_the_world_feature.shtml(The 21 Wonder Wannabes)

Introduction to MindMapping : http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E1B3CEC5-7EFC-40C4-BC41-01A5ACAB8693/0/MindmappingBBOD.ppt

For viewing JPEG2000 images : LEAD Photoshop plug-in (http://www.leadtools.com/utilities/psplugin/PhotoShop_plug-in.htm), and the LizardTech Express View browser plug-in (http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_download.php?detail=geo_expressview_plugin&platform=win ) Also downloads at http://openev.sourceforge.net/

'However exciting in their advances and future promise though, the biosciences are also challenging our ethical mores. Hence, we are now seeing a new breed of artists that focus on illuminating these hotly contested topics as today’s most important cultural issues.' : http://www.asci.org/artikel798.html Previous challenges : http://www.asci.org/artikel62.html

Inside the STONEHENGE CIRCLE there is a HEXAGON (the builders used a BASE 6 number system instead of the BASE 10 number system that we do today?) : http://www.west.net/~simon/STONECIRCLESCRYSTALGRIDSandPARTICLEACCELERATORS--thePHYSICSOFPI.html

Amazing demonstration of the power of the visual mind: http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/wiltshire_highres.wmv (5 min streamed video).

Important Dutch Map makers : http://www.swaen.com/mapmaker.html Chronologically displayed. Also http://www.maphist.com/artman/publish/dictionary_of_mapmakers.shtml

'HOW TO MARK A BOOK¹ by Mortimer J. Adler : http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/How%20To%20Mark%20A%20Book.html Via: http://arongahagan.com/?p=324 and http://technorati.com/tag/MortimerAdler

"Although it can be said of McLuhan that by half of what he said he meant something else, while in the other half he meant nothing at all..." - www.sfu.ca/media-lab/risk/docs/media-lab/panicfin.doc Is it Time to Rethink Media Effects?
"If you change your thinking, but not your behavior, you haven't really changed your thinking." - The Universe