Encyclopedia of Life (Reblog)

I'm excited about the Encyclopedia of Life project, although it is going to take a long time... Look at their yeti crab sample. Particularly cool:

• The scaling of content by level of expertise.
• The presentation of taxonomic and evolutionary information, with nary a mention of what second of his six days God intelligently designed the organism. The horrible, horrible bias! Thank God!
• The availability of RSS feeds to track updates to the aggregated data.