[Taxacom] OMG! OMG! Run for your lives! End of the World!

[Jim Croft]

Trust @rdmpage to let the facts get in the way of a good story...

Didn't you hear me?  I said run for your life!  The sky really is falling... ;)

jim

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Pity that with such a milestone in botanical taxonomy, none of the
> informatics works. The names aren't in IPNI, the LSIDs have no data, and the
> stated means for resolving the LSIDs fails (appending them to
> http://ipni.org/ gets a 404). See
> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/linnaeus-meets-internet-plos-botany.html
> for details.
>
> Given that the whole point of this paper is to promote electronic
> publication of names, it's unfortunate that none of the links to names
> actually work (as of now).
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
>
> On 5 May 2010, at 23:12, Jim Croft wrote:
>
>> http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100505/full/news.2010.221.html?s=news_rss
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'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
of doubtful sanity.'
 - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)