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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: PhyloPic Is Back!
http://3lbmonkeybrain.blogspot.com/2012/01/phylopic-is-back.html
A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. Last year, I launched a project called PhyloPic. The goal of this project was to create an open database of freely reuseable silhouette images of organisms. Furthermore, it featured a phylogenetic taxonomy so that, if a taxon wasn't illustrated, an approximation could be found. This image is in the public domain. And a wonderful thing happened. And I didn't really have time to push PhyloPic. To the next level. Was comp...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: March 2013
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. PhyloPic Launch: API, Responsive Design, etc. On Good Friday I took PhyloPic. Down On Holy Saturday, I wrestled with errors caused by incongruities between the server and dev environments. And, lo, now, on Easter Sunday I announce that PhyloPic. Actually, I already announced in on Twitter. How smartphone users should see PhyloPic. Using JSON). Now other people can build applications using PhyloPic. 160; —. 8212; and th...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: Welcome to the Monkey Brain
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. Welcome to the Monkey Brain. For a while now I've been wanting to start a blog on my professional and academic interests. I would have started it long ago, but there was a serious problem: What do you call a blog about biology, systematics, programming, and linguistics? This is coupled with a similar problem: Who on Earth would read it? But I'll let that one sort itself out.). Finally, I went back and tried to think of...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: How to Extend "Event", Once and For All
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. How to Extend "Event", Once and For All. I've seen this information spread out in a bunch of different places online, but not in one place. So here you go:. The event-dispatching functionality in ActionScript 3.0 is wonderful. It creates a new paradigm for programming, one focused less on branching flowcharts and more on organic interactivity. AddEventListener(Event.ENTER FRAME, update);. Type, bubbles, cancelable);.
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The Iguanodon: Dead dinos and property rights
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Sword-fighting anarchist cyborg ninja dinosaur superheroes. In space. Wednesday, January 17, 2007. Dead dinos and property rights. Sometimes, you just can't rely on the market to do the right thing. A big fossil controversy, one that will rival the $8 million sale of Sue the Tyranosaurus rex, has sprung up again in Montana. This time, a private collector has found two. So what's the problem? From the AP story. They also have a bottom line. The problem there is that scienctific journals won't accept paper...
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The Iguanodon: April 2006
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Sword-fighting anarchist cyborg ninja dinosaur superheroes. In space. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Mercer: Man's got a mean streak. Rick Mercer posted his first blog-rant in quite a while, and it's a doozy. Priority Six: We are a bunch of pricks" takes aim at the Tories for not lowering the flag to half mast on the Peace Tower to mark the death of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Jane Jacobs, RIP. Ms Jacobs passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Friday, April 21, 2006. Even though I can't play it fr...
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The Iguanodon: May 2006
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Sword-fighting anarchist cyborg ninja dinosaur superheroes. In space. Tuesday, May 02, 2006. A strange blog item. Appeared the other day on New World Notes. And will be little noticed by the world at large. In the online Snow Crash-inspired world of Second Life, a volunteer group of guards has appeared. The guards are now patrolling the area, asking anyone suspiciously hanging around what they are doing there, and trying to prevent future acts of griefing. They're the Green Lantern Corps. Socialists even...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: Why the PhyloPic Relaunch Took So Long
http://3lbmonkeybrain.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-phylopic-relaunch-took-so-long.html
A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. Why the PhyloPic Relaunch Took So Long. Or, A Lesson in Development Strategy. As I announced last week, my website, PhyloPic. Has been relaunched with a massive update. One of the key updates is a public API for developers. A lot of people have been looking forward to this, and it was actually almost ready for release last summer. So why didn't I release it? What I should have done. What I actually did. And I quickly s...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: Introducing PhyloPic: An Open Database of Reusable Silhouettes
http://3lbmonkeybrain.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-phylopic-open-database-of.html
A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. Introducing PhyloPic: An Open Database of Reusable Silhouettes. Ever had this problem? Boy, I could sure use a silhouette of [some kind of organism] for this diagram I'm working on. But I can't find anything on the web! What if there were a website with an open database of reusable images. Available under Creative Commons. What if you could do phylogenetic searches. What if you could build images like this. It's still ...
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A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: Deeper Dive on the PhyloPic T-shirt
http://3lbmonkeybrain.blogspot.com/2014/03/deeper-dive-on-phylopic-t-shirt.html
A Three-Pound Monkey Brain. Biology, programming, linguistics, phylogeny, systematics. Deeper Dive on the PhyloPic T-shirt. Is a website featuring freely-reusable silhouettes of organisms. Anybody may submit images under a Creative Commons. I am attempting to raise funds to host PhyloPic. For the next two years by selling a PhyloPic. Depicting the past half-billion years of our evolutionary lineage with free silhouettes. We've come a long way. Means "most recent shared ancestor", and " stem- X. This subs...
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