- Is Design Dead?
For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design. Not just is much design activity ridiculed as "Big Up Front Design", but such design techniques as the UML, flexible frameworks, and even patterns are de-emphasized or downright ignored. In fact XP involves a lot of design, but does it in a different way than established software processes. XP has rejuvenated the notion of evolutionary design with practices that allow evolution to become a viable design strategy. It also provides new challenges and skills as designers need to learn how to do a simple design, how to use refactoring to keep a design clean, and how to use patterns in an evolutionary style.
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - Language is a virus.
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in Public bookmarks by 17 users - Resilient Communities a SANER future - Sustainable, Asymmetric, Networked, Effective, Resilient
We're committed to growing resilient communities. As the global economic and political system begins to devour itself, we need communities that can withstand those system shocks, and provide us the means to live secure, comfortable, and sustainable lives. Our goal is to provide a place where people who are engaged in this work can share their experiences, tools, and presence
in Public bookmarks - Skeptic: Bonobos, Left & Right Primate Politics Heats Up Again as Liberals & Conservatives Spindoctor Science by Frans de Waa
However, it is interesting that so many people wish to deny the undeniable relationship between humans and chimps, and at the same time cannot seem to help finding political meanings in primate behavior that supports either a liberal or conservative agenda. On so simple a question — how much sex and violence do chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit — rides so much political angst about human nature and culture. Fortunately the facts can help sort through the fiction, and Frans de Waal is just the scientist to be our guide.
in Public bookmarks - The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to
our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.
Preview of an article by William H. McNeill from The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006
in Public bookmarks - The New Yorker:The Interpreter Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? by John Colapinto Apr 16 07
The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition. Everett’s most explosive claim, however, was that Pirahã displays no evidence of recursion, a linguistic operation that consists of inserting one phrase inside another of the same type, as when a speaker combines discrete thoughts (“the man is walking down the street,” “the man is wearing a top hat”) into a single sentence (“The man who is wearing a top hat is walking down the street”). Noam Chomsky,
in Public bookmarks - the Tree of Life Web Project: Movies of Jumping Spider Courtship
Jumping spiders have excellent vision, and their intraspecific communication therefore has a heavy visual component. Males dance before females, displaying contrasting or brightly colored ornaments. Presumably this courtship dance is a basis by which females choose mates. One of the most diverse and elaborately-ornamented genera of jumping spiders is the genus Habronattus, occurring primarily in North America. If you want to find our more information about the genus Habronattus, go to its branch page in the Tree of Life. Here are some Quicktime movies of courtship dances of various species. The small squares in the grid on which the spiders are standing are 1 millimeter square. Touch on the picture of the spider to see the movie. If you want to see more pic
in Public bookmarks - WAYGATE
SCIENCE, SPECULATION, SECULARISM
in Public bookmarks - Welcome to MusicBrainz!
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction.
in Public bookmarks by 20 users - When Lions, Buffaloes and Crocodiles Attack—At the Same Time
in Public bookmarks - BBC: Snow leopard fitted with GPS tag
For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a Global Positioning System (GPS) collar to track the secretive creature's movements. The 35kg (75lb) female was captured on the Purdum Mali ridge in Pakistan. Thanks to their solitary nature, the steep, rocky terrain they inhabit, and their twilight activity, snow leopards are extremely difficult to study, says Ashley Spearing, who is about to join the research team out in the Chitral Gol National Park in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders.
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in Public bookmarks - Biology Online Editable Wiki Dictionary
This dictionary is based on a WiKi system, which enables everyone to add and update the content. If you discover a term which is missing, then you can easily add it here.
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in Public bookmarks - Discussion traditional bows in contemporary warfare (photo intensive) - Archery - Primitive Bows - Bowmaking/Archery Discussion
I noticed a photoseries from Kenia, Africa. I don't know the exact details, but it is stated that in the beginning of March, members of the Kalenjin and Kisii-tribe were fighting for land. This happened in the Olmelil valley, western Kenia. Twenty deaths are reported. The reason why I am posting this, is of course because of the bows and arrows, which are clearly visible in the photos. I am amazed by the size of both arrows and bows. I just wanted to share these photos about traditional bws still being used by tribes for warfare. Discussion is welcom
in Public bookmarks - gladwell dot com - the pima paradox
The Pima are famous now--famous for being fatter than any other group in the world, with the exception only of the Nauru islanders of the West Pacific. Among those over thirty- five on the reservation, the rate of diabetes, the disease most closely associated with obesity, is fifty per cent, eight times the national average and a figure unmatched in medical history. It is not unheard of in Sacaton for adults to weigh five hundred pounds, for teen-agers to be suffering from diabetes, or for relatively young men and women to be already disabled by the disease--to be blind, to have lost a limb, to be confined to a wheelchair, or to be dependent on kidney dialysis.
in Public bookmarks - Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like
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An artificial intelligence system learning about the outer world. Teach gnod about the relations between the things out there.
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in Public bookmarks by 18 users - Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine « Blogs 4 Brownback
What’s even worse than the debate raging in American schools about the teaching of the soulless doctrine of evolution, is the non-debate over an issue that rational Americans have foolishly conceded to the secular among us: the issue of Heliocentrism, or the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
in Public bookmarks - IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
An IBM scientist holds a thinned wafer of silicon computer circuits, which is ready for bonding to another circuit wafer, where IBM's advanced "through-silicon via" process will connect the wafers together by etching thousands of holes through each layer and filling them with metal to create 3-D integrated stacked chips. The IBM breakthrough can shorten wire lengths inside chips up to 1000 times and allow for hundreds more pathways for data to flow among different functions on a chip. This technique will extend Moore's Law beyond its expected limits, paving the way for a new breed of smaller, faster and lower power chips. Credit: IBM IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimen
PhysOrg news: IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
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in Public bookmarks - LiveScience.com When Ants Go Marching, They Count Their Steps
They glued stilt-like extensions to the legs of some ants to lengthen stride. The researchers shortened other ants' stride length by cutting off the critters' feet and lower legs, reducing their legs to stumps. By manipulating the ants' stride lengths, the researchers could determine whether the insects were using an odometer-like mechanism to measure the distance, or counting off steps with an internal pedometer. The ants on stilts took the right number of steps, but because of their increased stride length, marched past their goal. Stump-legged ants, meanwhile, fell short of the goal.
By putting some ants on stilts and lopping the legs off others, researchers conclude an internal pedometer is at work.
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in Public bookmarks - MetaFilter - Flash meditations
Agents - one of many Flash experiments and projects by Sébastien Chevrel.
in Public bookmarks - musiclens
MusicLens enables users to find pieces of music using very vaguely described criteria, such as loudness (perceived volume), mood or purpose. The search or recommendations query can be enhanced or limited by adjusting the ten control sliders
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