Portfolio: Kirby Urner

Writings

General Systems Theory

• A Business Plan
• Letter to Dr. Richard Meier (Nov 26, 1996)
• 'Beyond Growth': making our case to the public (Mar 24, 1997)
• 'Courseware currencies' and resource distribution (Mar 20, 1997)
• The Project Renaissance Approach to Public-Private Enterprising (June 4, 1997)

Philosophy

• A Philosophers' Network
• On Ludwig Wittgenstein's Contribution to a Pragmatic Philosophy (April 3, 1997)
• On the Omnidirectional Halo (a concept coined by RBF)
• R. Buckminster Fuller: A 20th Century Philosopher
• Some Commentary re Synergetics
• Where Dr. Fuller Meets Dr. Seuss: Towards a Philosophy of Consilience

Journalism and Newsgroup posts

• Newsgroup Posts (pdx4d)
• Newsgroup Posts (urner@alumni.princeton.edu)
• My 3 part write-up of the July, 1995 Centennial in San Diego, USA

Design Science

• On Virtualizing Government: A Design Science Approach
• Proposal: Urner JavaDome at OMSI (Aug 11, 1996)
• New Circuit Designs for Motherboard Earth (Jun 4, 1995)

Editorials / Opinion

• Tower of Babel, USA
• And Now From the Diatribes Department (Oct 27, 1996)
• The End of an Era (editorial, Feb 12, 1998)
• Sewing [pun] a Bitter Harvest (editorial, Feb 13, 1998)
• It's a Small World After All (editorial, Mar 9, 1998)
• Taking Stock (editorial, Sept 13, 1998)
• A warning shot... (Sept 21, 1998)
• More Editorializing re Affairs of State (Jan 17, 1999)
• Projecting Peace in the Balkans (lots of editorials, analysis)
• Pro-USA polemics (Apr 20, 1999) w/ follow-up (Apr 30, 2000)
• Recent USA History 101 (May 1, 2000)

I created a lot of the graphics at this website using various software tools, alone or in conjuction. For example, a lot of the wireframe graphics were done using an object-oriented Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP 5.0) encoding of the quadrays concepts, with methods for saving to Povray text files for ray-tracing and rendering.

Feel free to recycle any of the graphics you know to be mine, with or without attribution, as these are public domain by virtue of appearing on (making use of) the internet as a public resource, a technology for sharing information. You may want to contact Kirby or other original authors if uncertain regarding permitted uses.

Animations