http://netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/evolution?feed=rss&pg=2 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "evolution" on Netvouz http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html 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. emmineb Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:50:21 GMT http://www.languageisavirus.com/ # Cut Up Machine # Slice-n-Dice # Exquisite Cadavulator # Madlib PoemPopular # Magnetic Poetry # Automatic Poetry Generator # Text Collage # Haiku-a-Tron # Poem Engine # Translator # Random Line Generator # Character Name Generator # Title-o-Matic # SlashPoem # Creative Writing Prompts emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 09:11:19 GMT http://resilientcc.ning.com/ 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 emmineb Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:14:39 GMT http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-08-08.html#feature 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. emmineb Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:30:15 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19692 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. emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:23 GMT http://www.tolweb.org/accessory/Movies_of_Jumping_Spider_Courtship?acc_id=64 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 emmineb Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:58:10 GMT http://www.waygate.com/ SCIENCE, SPECULATION, SECULARISM emmineb Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:18:46 GMT http://musicbrainz.org/ 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. emmineb Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:29:57 GMT http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/when_lions_buff.html emmineb Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:36:53 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6188482.stm 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. emmineb Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:37:22 GMT