Punk Dino Starts a Trend

Over at National Geographic, they are reporting on what appears to be the great uncle of a brontosaur. Aardonyx stood on two legs, but was adapted to walk on four.

Theres's also another sauropod (picture to the right) that wears a mohawk. The punk dino is Amargasaurus.

Update 14 Nov - Here's another article, this one from Canada's newspaper The Globe and Mail, about Aardonyx.

Random Use of Candles

Literal video version of Bonnie Tyler's version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Watch out for the dancing ninjas, Eva Peron and the Arthur Fonzarelli clones. C'mon, you want to see it. It's like a surrealist emo version of "Village of the Damned"...



Hat tip, Jill Wheeler.

Nerd Boys Don't Sparkle in the Sunshine...

A while back I noticed a link on Stacy Whitman's Grimoire to a video by John Green called "How to Make Boys Like You"

Here's the Youtube video -


Have to admit he's dead on with the stuff about Warcraft and being yourself.

Although I do believe that "being yourself" works for some values of "yourself".

Human Strangeness, Antwerp Style

Linked from Tara Maya's Tales, comes this YouTube moment of Perfect Human Strangeness in Antwerp's (Belgium) Central Station. I'd really like to see one of these things live, although I'd probably end up dancing along, one way or another...



On seeing these, I always wonder how many regular people joined in. The camera work seems to show it happening, but due to the complicated choreography it doesn't seem likely that true "instant joiners" could have stayed in sync with the rest.

I sure would like to believe they did, though. That's part of the joy of the thing.

What Killed the Thesaurus?

SnorgTees says this animal was the first dork of the Juraissic period, although from the text it appears it may have been the last.

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Hat tip, Lizard Lair.