Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Richard Florida says...
Creativity is the decisive source of competitive advantage. Creativity comes from people [and that means] people are the critical resource of the new age. Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel making. For a city to succeed in today's economy, it must attract and retain talented people. Because creative people are the "critical resource of the new age," then a city eager for economic development must attract them. Highly skilled creative people gravitate to places that are centers of creativity, places that are multifunctional and diverse, full of stimulation and cultural interplay. Successful places will need to cultivate "a people climate" as well as a business climate. Successful cities will insure that their people climate is especially appealing to young creative people. The cities that succeed will be talent magnets.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Dieter Ram's 10 Principles of 'Good Design'
The 10 principles were clipped from this SFMOMA article
Good Design Is Innovative— The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Good Design Makes a Product Useful—A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Good Design Is Aesthetic—The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
Good Design Makes A Product Understandable—It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.
Good Design Is Unobtrusive— Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.
Good Design Is Honest— It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept
Good Design Is Long-lasting— It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.
Good Design Is Thorough Down to the Last Detail—Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
Good Design Is Environmentally Friendly— Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimises physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible—Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Good Design Is Innovative— The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Good Design Makes a Product Useful—A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Good Design Is Aesthetic—The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
Good Design Makes A Product Understandable—It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.
Good Design Is Unobtrusive— Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.
Good Design Is Honest— It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept
Good Design Is Long-lasting— It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.
Good Design Is Thorough Down to the Last Detail—Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
Good Design Is Environmentally Friendly— Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimises physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible—Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Kary Mullis's Recommended Reading List
This list is from karymullis.com
Mullis is the '93 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry
Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide
Halton Arp
Seeing Red: Red Shifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
Lyndon Ashmore
The Big Bang Blasted
Jean Auel
Clan of the Cave Bear
Robert Aunger
Electric Meme
Julian Barbour
The End of Time
John D. Barrow, and J. Frank Tipler
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
John D. Barrow
New Theories of Everything and The Infinite Book
John M. Barry
The Great Influenza
Gregory Benford
Timescape
David Berlinski
A Tour of the Calculus
Harvey Bialy
Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS
Douglas Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Colin Bruce
Schroedingers Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum
Chandler Burr
The Emperor of Scent
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Sean Carrol
From Eternity to Here
Marcus Chown
We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Brian Cleg
The God Effect
Brian Cox, and Jeff Forshaw
Why Does E=mc2
Matthew B. Crawford
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Michael Crichton
The State of Fear
Richard Dawkins
The Ancestors Tale
The Selfish Gene
Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell
Consciousness Explained
Darwins Dangerous Idea
David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity
The Fabric of Reality
Jared Diamond
Collapse
Guns, Germs and Steel
Freeman Dyson
Disturbing the Universe also Infinite in All Directions
Loren Eiseley
The Star Thrower
Paul Ewald
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
Brian Fagan
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Richard Feynman
Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman
Michael W. Friedlander
A Thin Cosmic Rain
Max G. Gergel
Excuse Me Sir, Would you like to buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide
Rebecca Goldstein
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel
Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Universe
Sam Harris
The End of Faith
Jack Heighway
Einstein, the Aether and Variable Rest Mass
Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker
Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop
Bruce M. Hood
Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant V. Narlikar
A Different Approach to Cosmology
Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Michio Kaku
Hyperspace
Visions
Robert Kaplan
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
Serge Lang
Challanges
Robert Lanza, and Bob Berman
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
Eric J. Lerner
The Big Bang Never Happened
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics
David Lindley
Boltzmanns Atom
David J. C. MacKay
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Mark W. Moffett
Adventures Among Ants
Richart A. Muller
Physics for Future Presidents
Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos
The Non-Local Universe
V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
Isaac Newton
The Principia
Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works
Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire
Dean Radin
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experience in a Quantum Reality
Lisa Randall
Warped Passages
Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All
Dan Rockmore
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis
Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Ant King and Other Stories
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
Quantum Enigma
Gunter Sachs
The Astrology File
Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind
Erwin Schrodinger
What Is Life
Kathyrn Schulz
Being Wrong
Charles Seife
Zero
Walter Semkiw
Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation
Simon Singh
Fermats Last Theorem
Lee Smolin
The Life of the Cosmos
The Trouble with Physics
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Willie Soon, and Steven Yaskell
The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection
Russell Standish
Theory of Nothing
Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
Gunter Stent
Paradoxes of Free Will
Ian Stewart, Jack and Cohen
Figments of Reality
Leonard Susskind
The Cosmic Landscape
Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder
The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change
Bryan Sykes
Adam's Curse
Thomas Szasz
Ceremonial Chemistryand The Myth of Mental Illness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan
Michael Ray Taylor
Dark Life
Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott
The Electric Universe
The Urantia Book
ostensibly by Extraterrestrials
Vlatko Vedral
Decoding Reality
Alex Vilenkin
Many Worlds in One
Andrew Weil
The Natural Mind
Julia Whitty
The Fragile Edge
Ian Wishart
Air Con: The Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming
Peter Woit
Not Even Wrong
Herman Wouk
The Language God Talks
Mullis is the '93 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry
Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide
Halton Arp
Seeing Red: Red Shifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
Lyndon Ashmore
The Big Bang Blasted
Jean Auel
Clan of the Cave Bear
Robert Aunger
Electric Meme
Julian Barbour
The End of Time
John D. Barrow, and J. Frank Tipler
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
John D. Barrow
New Theories of Everything and The Infinite Book
John M. Barry
The Great Influenza
Gregory Benford
Timescape
David Berlinski
A Tour of the Calculus
Harvey Bialy
Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS
Douglas Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Colin Bruce
Schroedingers Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum
Chandler Burr
The Emperor of Scent
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Sean Carrol
From Eternity to Here
Marcus Chown
We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Brian Cleg
The God Effect
Brian Cox, and Jeff Forshaw
Why Does E=mc2
Matthew B. Crawford
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Michael Crichton
The State of Fear
Richard Dawkins
The Ancestors Tale
The Selfish Gene
Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell
Consciousness Explained
Darwins Dangerous Idea
David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity
The Fabric of Reality
Jared Diamond
Collapse
Guns, Germs and Steel
Freeman Dyson
Disturbing the Universe also Infinite in All Directions
Loren Eiseley
The Star Thrower
Paul Ewald
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
Brian Fagan
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Richard Feynman
Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman
Michael W. Friedlander
A Thin Cosmic Rain
Max G. Gergel
Excuse Me Sir, Would you like to buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide
Rebecca Goldstein
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel
Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Universe
Sam Harris
The End of Faith
Jack Heighway
Einstein, the Aether and Variable Rest Mass
Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker
Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop
Bruce M. Hood
Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant V. Narlikar
A Different Approach to Cosmology
Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Michio Kaku
Hyperspace
Visions
Robert Kaplan
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
Serge Lang
Challanges
Robert Lanza, and Bob Berman
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
Eric J. Lerner
The Big Bang Never Happened
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics
David Lindley
Boltzmanns Atom
David J. C. MacKay
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Mark W. Moffett
Adventures Among Ants
Richart A. Muller
Physics for Future Presidents
Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos
The Non-Local Universe
V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
Isaac Newton
The Principia
Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works
Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire
Dean Radin
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experience in a Quantum Reality
Lisa Randall
Warped Passages
Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All
Dan Rockmore
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis
Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Ant King and Other Stories
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
Quantum Enigma
Gunter Sachs
The Astrology File
Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind
Erwin Schrodinger
What Is Life
Kathyrn Schulz
Being Wrong
Charles Seife
Zero
Walter Semkiw
Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation
Simon Singh
Fermats Last Theorem
Lee Smolin
The Life of the Cosmos
The Trouble with Physics
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Willie Soon, and Steven Yaskell
The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection
Russell Standish
Theory of Nothing
Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
Gunter Stent
Paradoxes of Free Will
Ian Stewart, Jack and Cohen
Figments of Reality
Leonard Susskind
The Cosmic Landscape
Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder
The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change
Bryan Sykes
Adam's Curse
Thomas Szasz
Ceremonial Chemistryand The Myth of Mental Illness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan
Michael Ray Taylor
Dark Life
Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott
The Electric Universe
The Urantia Book
ostensibly by Extraterrestrials
Vlatko Vedral
Decoding Reality
Alex Vilenkin
Many Worlds in One
Andrew Weil
The Natural Mind
Julia Whitty
The Fragile Edge
Ian Wishart
Air Con: The Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming
Peter Woit
Not Even Wrong
Herman Wouk
The Language God Talks
Charlie Cook's 3 Rules of Human Nature
People are attracted by solutions to their problems.
People forget.
People want to be confident they are making the right decision.
from Charlie Cook's Marketing for Success
People forget.
People want to be confident they are making the right decision.
from Charlie Cook's Marketing for Success
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
David Gergen's 5 Gathering Storms
In an article in May 29, 2006 issue of USN&WR,
David Gergen cautions about the following 'gathering storms.'
The Danger of Drift
Education
Healthcare
Worldwide Competitiveness
Energy and Environment
Unfunded Government Liabilities
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Dr. James Canton's Top 10 Trends of The Extreme Future
Fueling the Future - The energy crisis, the post-oil future, and the future of energy alternatives like hydrogen. The critical role that energy will play in every aspect of our lives in the 21st century.
The Innovation Economy - The transformation of the global economy based on the convergence of free trade, technology and democracy, driving new jobs, new markets, globalization, competition, peace and security. The Four Power Tools of the Innovation Economy are Nano-Bio-IT-Neuro.
The Next Workforce - How the workforce of the U.S. is becoming more multicultural, more female and more Hispanic. Why the future workforce must embrace innovation to become globally competitive.
Longevity Medicine - The key forces that will radically alter medicine such as nanotech, neurotech, and genomics, leading to longer and healthier lives.
Weird Science - How science will transform every aspect of our lives, culture and economy—from teleportation to nanobiology to multiple universes.
Securing the Future - The top threats to our freedom and our lives, from hackers to terrorists to mind control. Defining the risk landscape of the 21st century.
The Future of Globalization - The new realities of global trade and competition; the rise of China and India; the clash of cultures and ideologies; and the cultural-economic battle for the future.
The Future of Climate Change - How the environment is changing and how we need to prepare for increased global warming, pollution, and threats to biodiversity.
The Future of the Individual - The risks and challenges from institutions, governments, and ideologies in the struggle for human rights and the freedom of the individual in the 21st century.
The Future of America - The power of America and its destiny to champion global democracy, innovation, human rights and free markets.
The Innovation Economy - The transformation of the global economy based on the convergence of free trade, technology and democracy, driving new jobs, new markets, globalization, competition, peace and security. The Four Power Tools of the Innovation Economy are Nano-Bio-IT-Neuro.
The Next Workforce - How the workforce of the U.S. is becoming more multicultural, more female and more Hispanic. Why the future workforce must embrace innovation to become globally competitive.
Longevity Medicine - The key forces that will radically alter medicine such as nanotech, neurotech, and genomics, leading to longer and healthier lives.
Weird Science - How science will transform every aspect of our lives, culture and economy—from teleportation to nanobiology to multiple universes.
Securing the Future - The top threats to our freedom and our lives, from hackers to terrorists to mind control. Defining the risk landscape of the 21st century.
The Future of Globalization - The new realities of global trade and competition; the rise of China and India; the clash of cultures and ideologies; and the cultural-economic battle for the future.
The Future of Climate Change - How the environment is changing and how we need to prepare for increased global warming, pollution, and threats to biodiversity.
The Future of the Individual - The risks and challenges from institutions, governments, and ideologies in the struggle for human rights and the freedom of the individual in the 21st century.
The Future of America - The power of America and its destiny to champion global democracy, innovation, human rights and free markets.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
2012 50y USMS Nat'l QTs
50 Free 26.51
100 Free 56.88
200 Free 2:04.61
500 Free 5:45.13
1000 Free 11:59.26
1650 Free 20:33.66
50 Back 31.60
100 Back 1:07.86
200 Back 2:23.56
50 Breast 33.93
100 Breast 1:14.60
200 Breast 2:39.76
50 Fly 28.64
100 Fly 1:04.50
200 Fly 2:26.74
100 IM 1:07.23
200 IM 2:23.41
400 IM 5:14.19
100 Free 56.88
200 Free 2:04.61
500 Free 5:45.13
1000 Free 11:59.26
1650 Free 20:33.66
50 Back 31.60
100 Back 1:07.86
200 Back 2:23.56
50 Breast 33.93
100 Breast 1:14.60
200 Breast 2:39.76
50 Fly 28.64
100 Fly 1:04.50
200 Fly 2:26.74
100 IM 1:07.23
200 IM 2:23.41
400 IM 5:14.19
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