2006
04.06

A Google of Missing Links

I think google is going for the world record of how many missing-link
articles they can put in their newsfeed in a single year. href="http://www.itv.com/news/world_2068756.html">This is the
latest of at least 4 or 5 so far this year that I can remember. It’s
starting to get kind of funny. They also fed href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401674.html">this
article this morning about some new bird-o-saur they found in Utah. I
think it’s very revealing when they claim it resembled a “7-foot-tall
brightly colored turkey and could run up to 25 mph”. How in the crap
do they know that? The turkey part, maybe, but “brightly colored”?
Give me a break. That’s as crazy as that guy on Jurassic Park claiming
that “tyrannosaur’s eye is based on movement”. Last time I checked
they werent finding any eye fossils. The name for this thing has to be one of the best I’ve heard though:

“…Lindsay Zanno, a doctoral student at the University of Utah who named
the dinosaur Hagryphus giganteus, or giant four-footed, birdlike god of
the Western desert.”

Now that is a seriously specific name. It reminds me of some of the titles the puritans
used to put on their books.

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