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Three new dinosaurs found in Outback Queensland
THREE new species of Australian dinosaur have been discovered in a prehistoric billabong in western Queensland.
Premier Anna Bligh announced the discovery in the central western town of Winton today as she opened the first stage of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History.
The dinosaurs have been nicknamed after characters created by poet Banjo Paterson, who is said to have written Waltzing Matilda in Winton in 1885.
Banjo (carnivorous theropod), Matilda and Clancy (giant plant-eating sauropods) were found in a vast geological deposit near Winton that dates from 98 million years ago.
The first new sauropods to be named in Australia in more than 75 years were unearthed during State Government-funded joint Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum digs.
The meat-eating Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo) has been coined Australia’s answer to the velociraptor made famous in the Jurassic Park movies.
The two plant-eating, four-legged sauropod species are new types of titanosaurs - the largest animals ever to walk the earth.
“These discoveries are a major breakthrough in the scientific understanding of prehistoric life in Australia,” Ms Bligh said.I know this was all over the news yesterday, so sorry if someone has already posted about it.. but it’s such a cool discovery.
Also, Australovenator, and Banjo!
Science reblog!!!
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Okay, I’ve now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin’s house and the Wasilla Sports Complex, built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the “same windows, same wood, same products.” Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.
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I confess to be thrilled: as Palin’s spokesperson makes a tortured basketball analogy, Anderson Cooper: “I know nothing about sports.
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I love you guys so much that if I had some fireworks I’d totally film myself accidently blowing up my crotch for you.
Oh, baby, that’s so sweet…
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Think different my ass
vruz:
Apple does indeed suck, just like any big corporation does.
Whilst they do have some good products, many really aren’t. Unconditional love for a corporation really blows my mind.
To cite the most evident case, I maintain that the Mac OS X user interface has been surpassed years ago by other substitutes, to give just an example the Finder really sucks big time, I’m not even getting technical.
However, the notion of ALL using the same system is a dangerous one, because that’s roughly what happened with Microsoft Windows, what started good with Windows 95 ended up very badly. Big corporations just aren’t trustworthy, once they achieve a dominating position, they don’t need to satisfy the customer’s needs anymore… I believe that Apple and Google are no different.
We don’t have to ALL use the same computer system, that would stiffle progress too, in a rather soviet manner.
That’s the reason why we have standards, and major vendors commit to standards, to agree on a level playing field everybody can build upon and differentiate on bleeding edge features, or service, or quality, or something else.
But no, Apple don’t want standards, they still want a little unfair advantage to hold the market back.
Think different my ass.
Originally posted as a comment by vruz on united colours of vruz using Disqus.amen to all of this
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Chart of the Day - Job losses are nearly 3 times average
As today’s chart illustrates, the current job market has suffered losses that are nearly three times as much as the average. In fact, if this were an average recession/job loss cycle, the number of jobs would have begun to increase three months ago.
I occasionally think (hope?) that there is a chance that we will look back on this recession and think how typical it was in retrospect. Then something comes along that says, “Well, some things are different this time.”
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