At a National Geographic Society meeting, scientists announced discovery of a 110-million-year old fossil, named "Nigersaurus taqueti," or "blackasaurus" for short. Blackasaurus was a voracious plant-eater with a vacuum-shaped mouth, and hundreds of tiny, sharp teeth to grind up its food. 30 feet long, the animal held its head close to the ground to graze.
Scientists suggested it may have been well suited for picking up other plant matter as well. "With more than 50 columns of teeth, it was well suited for picking up whatever plant matter was in front of it," said NGS archeologist Derek McCraccan, who in the 1990s discovered a related fossil, named "Nigersaurus cracceti."
Blackasaurus' lifestyle is yet unknown to scientists, but one expedition team member noted, "We know they did it, and they did it well," in a statement.
The first bones of Nigersaurus were picked up in the 1950s by French paleontologists led by French paleontologist Philippe Taquet, but the species was not named at that time.
The current excavation team honored this early work by naming the species after Taquet. The remainder of the name is purportedly in honor of the country Niger, where the fossil was found, but was actually intended as a not-so-subtle reminder of "the N-word" to spread racial hatred in the face of the strong presidential campaign of Barack Obama, sources said.
The expedition was partially funded by the Land of the Spawn of Demon Seed Heritage Foundation.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
MILTHs / Help / Bush In / Discovering New Ways to Smoke Trees
Update from California:
In response to the major fires sweeping across California, celebrity bloggers around the web have created a new category of literally hot hottie: mothers I’d like to help, or MILTHs. In a poll, Jessica Alba was voted the top MILTH, although she is neither a mother nor in need of assistance.
Land of the Spawn of Demon Seed President (Ret.) Bush, after repeated text messages from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared a state of emergency in California, paving the way for federal disaster aid to arrive, and said he would survey the state on Thursday, except, of course, for the areas “where the fires are burning in.”
Mindful of the fact that many California citizens are white, Mr. Bush dispatched officials from the Department of Homeland Security to assess damage ahead of time, so that relief checks could be deposited the instant flames crossed a property line.
On Tuesday, the governator re-texted Mr. Bush, asking him to raise his declaration to “major disaster,” which would affect how the state is reimbursed later. The governor estimated that $75 million in federal aid would be needed. If the fires continue to burn, Mr. Schwarzenegger said, the situation could be upgraded to “total disaster,” which would trigger a deployment of an international coalition of fire-fighters, 6 trillion dollars in federal disaster aid, and a second flyover by Mr. Bush.
Federal and local fire teams from Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming joined the fight, and the governator called up 1500 National Guard members, who were happy to transfer back to the US from Iraq. Mr. Schwarzenegger said in a news conference Tuesday that he was “happy” with the “high” number of firefighters working the blazes, officials said that they were stretched thin and that a lack of food and video games was as much a burden as the temperatures and winds.
“Our numbers are low,” a fire captain confirmed in a telephone interview from San Diego. “But our firefighters are high due to the high concentrations of illegal marijuana in many homes. However, many firefighters are temporarily overcome by fits of giggling and extreme hunger. Moreover, there are not enough couches available.”
In response to the major fires sweeping across California, celebrity bloggers around the web have created a new category of literally hot hottie: mothers I’d like to help, or MILTHs. In a poll, Jessica Alba was voted the top MILTH, although she is neither a mother nor in need of assistance.
Land of the Spawn of Demon Seed President (Ret.) Bush, after repeated text messages from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared a state of emergency in California, paving the way for federal disaster aid to arrive, and said he would survey the state on Thursday, except, of course, for the areas “where the fires are burning in.”
Mindful of the fact that many California citizens are white, Mr. Bush dispatched officials from the Department of Homeland Security to assess damage ahead of time, so that relief checks could be deposited the instant flames crossed a property line.
On Tuesday, the governator re-texted Mr. Bush, asking him to raise his declaration to “major disaster,” which would affect how the state is reimbursed later. The governor estimated that $75 million in federal aid would be needed. If the fires continue to burn, Mr. Schwarzenegger said, the situation could be upgraded to “total disaster,” which would trigger a deployment of an international coalition of fire-fighters, 6 trillion dollars in federal disaster aid, and a second flyover by Mr. Bush.
Federal and local fire teams from Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming joined the fight, and the governator called up 1500 National Guard members, who were happy to transfer back to the US from Iraq. Mr. Schwarzenegger said in a news conference Tuesday that he was “happy” with the “high” number of firefighters working the blazes, officials said that they were stretched thin and that a lack of food and video games was as much a burden as the temperatures and winds.
“Our numbers are low,” a fire captain confirmed in a telephone interview from San Diego. “But our firefighters are high due to the high concentrations of illegal marijuana in many homes. However, many firefighters are temporarily overcome by fits of giggling and extreme hunger. Moreover, there are not enough couches available.”
Monday, May 14, 2007
Santa Rosa Macbooks to be Announced Friday
See also:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/14/1146231&from=rss
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0705laptops.html
INT. GROVE'S DINNER TABLE - NIGHT
(He stands)
Steve Jobs ruined one of Intel Corporation's most valuable motherboards for us. For fifteen years we had her under development. Floating point computation lessons; OpenGL lessons, packet routing lessons. I spent hundreds of millions of dollars on her. I was gonna make her a big star! And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, and it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful; she was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest PCI I ever had, and I had 'em all over the world! And then Steve Jobs comes along with his iPhone interface and clickwheel charm. And she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous! Now you get the hell outta here! And if that gumbah tries any rough stuff, you tell him I ain't no Xerox! Yeah, I heard that story....
[Tom nods, then exits]
Pan of exterior of Grove's estate, then we see the interior of Grove's bedroom.
Grove awakens in a pool of blood, and finds DRM's severed head in his bed; and SCREAMS ah - ah - ah - ah - ah!
Dawn.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/14/1146231&from=rss
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0705laptops.html
INT. GROVE'S DINNER TABLE - NIGHT
GROVE
You don't understand. Macbooks never get Santa Rosa. That chip is perfect for them; it'll make 'em unbeatable. And I'm gonna run them out of the business, and let me tell you why.(He stands)
Steve Jobs ruined one of Intel Corporation's most valuable motherboards for us. For fifteen years we had her under development. Floating point computation lessons; OpenGL lessons, packet routing lessons. I spent hundreds of millions of dollars on her. I was gonna make her a big star! And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, and it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful; she was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest PCI I ever had, and I had 'em all over the world! And then Steve Jobs comes along with his iPhone interface and clickwheel charm. And she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous! Now you get the hell outta here! And if that gumbah tries any rough stuff, you tell him I ain't no Xerox! Yeah, I heard that story....
TOM
Thank you for the dinner and a very pleasant evening. If your car could take me to the airport; Mr. Jobs is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately.[Tom nods, then exits]
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Pan of exterior of Grove's estate, then we see the interior of Grove's bedroom.
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Grove awakens in a pool of blood, and finds DRM's severed head in his bed; and SCREAMS ah - ah - ah - ah - ah!
Dawn.
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