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"Bloody-Disgusting" -
8 hours and 41 minutes ago
A film we've been following for quite sometime is the Australian horror film Prey, which even was praised for leaving
a heavy lesbian scene intact. The latest
controversy comes in the new trailer, which doesn't display a director (neither does the production
website). The IMDB page now lists Oscar D'Roccster as the man behind the camera. Interesting. In
the film, three couples, one from the USA and two from Australia, are about to learn the horrible
truth about what happens when your 4WD holiday goes horribly wrong. In the desert, in the night, in
the dark.
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Guardian Unlimited -
16 hours and 4 minutes ago
divimg alt=""
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width="1" height="1" //divpWhat next for the ambitious career politician who fell from the heady
heights of strongNew York/strong governor after being linked with a prostitution ring? Journalism,
apparently./ppMaybe no-one else would take him, but strongEliot Spitzer/strong has re-emerged a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/media_nm/us_spitzer_slate"on the magazine site
strongSlate.com/strong/a a modest nine-months after the scandal of his involvement in a
$1,000-per-hour prostitution ring./ppa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/"
title="Front Door by wonderferret, on Flickr"img
src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/125543849_7c5a11958d.jpg" width="460" alt="Front Door" //abr
/emNope, no prostitutes here. Photograph: a
href="http://flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/"wonderferret/a/Flickr/a
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB"Some rights reserved/a/em/ppSpitzer has
begun writing a column for the site on the economy and financial regulation, group editor
strongJacob Weisberg/strong said last night. a
href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/pagenum/all/#p2"The first column/a explains why the
government should not bail out big financial institutions, and that that money could have been used
to "increase the intellectual capabilities of the next generation". "Our dependence on entities of
this size ensured that we would fall prey to a 'too big to fail' argument in favor of bailouts," he
wrote./ppWeisberg said Slate approached Spitzer several months ago about writing the column, and
would have hired him "even if he'd never been governor"./pp"He was the de facto national regulator
of the financial industry. I think he just has a keen understanding and a shrewd perspective on
those issues," Weisberg said of the former 'Sheriff of strongWall Street/strong' - who had
developed a reputation for cracking down on prostitution and financial crime./pp/pdiv style="float:
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 11 hours ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/16540?ns=guardianpageName=Science%3A+Giant+flying+reptile+%E2%80%93+terror+of+Cretaceous+skiesch=Sciencec3=guardian.co.ukc4=Science%2CFossils+%28Science%29%2CArchaeology%2CZoology%2CEvolution+%28Science%29c5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=James+Randersonc7=2008_12_03c8=1128129c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sciencec12=Fossilsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FScience%2FFossils"
width="1" height="1" //divpSoaring overhead in the Cretaceous skies with taut leathery wings longer
than a family car, they would have made an unnerving sight. Now scientists, a
href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121526827/abstract"analysing a fossil/a that had
lain for years after its discovery in a German museum, have for the first time glimpsed one of the
most imposing of the prehistoric flyers./ppemLacusovagus magnificens/em, the magnificent lake
wanderer, is the largest prehistoric flying reptile without teeth ever to have been found. The name
comes from its preservation in lake sediments of the Araripe basin in north-east Brazil, a site
well known for its excellently preserved fossils./pp"Some of the previous examples we have from
this family in China are just 60cm long – as big as the skull of the new
species," said Mark Witton a postgraduate student in the school of Earth and Environmental Science
at the University of Portsmouth, "Put simply, it dwarfs any chaoyangopterid we've seen before by
miles." The chaoyangopterids are a family of toothless pterosaurs and the fossil is the first of
the family to be found in Brazil. /pp"The discovery of something like this in Brazil
– so far away from its closest relatives in China –
demonstrates how little we actually know about the distribution and evolutionary history of this
fascinating group of creatures," Witton said./ppInterpreting the fossil was difficult because of
its unusual preservation. "Usually fossils like this are found lying on their sides but this one
was lying on the roof of its mouth and had been rather squashed, which made even figuring out
whether it had teeth difficult," said Witton. From the skull he was able to extrapolate that the
beast would have had a wingspan of around five metres and stood more than a metre tall at the
shoulder. It also had a wide mouth suggesting that it was able to tackle large prey. "The remains
are very fragmentary, however, so we need more specimens before we can draw any conclusions,"
Witton said./ppAlthough large, emLacusovagus/em was much smaller than some of the giant toothed
flying reptiles. emQuetzalcoatlus/em, named after the Aztec winged serpent god, was the size of a
spitfire with a wingspan of 11 to 12 metres. It had a massively elongated fourth digit on its
"hands" and fibres in the wing membrane for added support. Another species that may have been even
bigger is ema href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w55xf7hvvmwp6t5c/"Hatzegopteryx
thambema/a/em, which is known from a single specimen discovered in Romania. Its bone structure
resembles expanded polystyrene – presumably for extra lightness to allow
flight./ppThe a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/12/1"smallest pterosaur/a ever
discovered is emNemicolopterus crypticus/em, meaning "hidden flying forest dweller". Discovered in
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