Pearls of Wisdom (09-26-09)

Keith
[T]he fact that torture isn’t reliable at extracting truth is a feature, not a bug.

“As a result, information produced by the suspect may parrot or embellish suggestions from the interrogators rather than revealing something both truthful and unknown to the interrogators.”

What better way to extract “confessions” that benefit you politically (like WMDs in Iraq) that aren’t actually true?

Breaking Waves (09-22-09)

Soulstorm Legacy (console RPG Maker) has been updated with even more dungeon info.

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations has been updated with info from The Dinosauria

Breaking Waves (09-21-09)

My deviantART gallery has been updated with about 13 new fractals.

Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation

Created Oviraptorosaurs as a redirect to Oviraptorosauria.

Soulstorm Legacy (console RPG Maker) has been updated with dungeon info.

Eirbane

Mariana Musings (09-21-09)

I saw Bolt the other day, you know, the Pixar movie. It wasn’t the worst movie, but it wasn’t very good either. I thought the premise was interesting, but it was just another cliche kids’ movie in the end. It certainly doesn’t measure up to the standard set by WALL-E.

Breaking Waves (09-20-09)

Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation

2009 in paleontology

Eirbane Added some details about the dinosaurian sapients.

Soulstorm Legacy (console RPG Maker) Added info about the various mapped areas.

Mariana Musings (09-20-09)

I am loving Opera 10, especially it’s new look! Not so much liking that it still doesn’t handle the column feature in Wikipedia’s references template the way Firefox does, but it’s still a cool browser.

Tidepool Reflections (09-19-09)

I’ve discovered that I’ve been creating my fractal wallpapers, which are supposed to be 1920×1200 as 1900x1200. Oops. I’ll be remembering to do it the right way in the future.

And speaking of my fractals, I have intentions to upload 5 or so 100 megabyte rar files of them. So, if you had always wanted to download my fractal wallpapers in bulk, rejoice! Not sure how many are in each library, or in total, but I’ll get back with you on that when I find a good free file host. Feel free to make suggestions for one if you have a preference.

Breaking Waves (09-19-09)

My deviantART gallery has been updated with about 7 new fractals.

Eirbane has gotten some long over-due attention that doesn’t nearly go far enough.

Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation has been created and worked on quite a bit.

Yixian Formation has had a lot of content transferred to PBotYF.

ContentCreationBOT’s BRFA received a rather lengthy tirade from yours truly, followed by an enigmatically empty reply from the guy I was arguing with.

My Morrison dinosaurs project has finally gone public.

Mariana Musings (09-19-09)

Proposal: An object in orbit around a planet is not a moon unless it has been rounded out by its own gravity. Objects not massive enough to have been rounded by their own gravity should be referred to as Small Planetary Satellites.

Tidepool Reflections (09-19-09)

PDF Request for Paul Lambers’ 1992 Thesis

If anyone has a PDF of

Lambers, P.H. 1992 On the ichthyofauna of the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone (Upper Jurassic, Germany). Doctoral thesis, University of Groningen

the Paleobiota of the Solnhofen Formation article would be greatly benefitted by you sending a copy to saint_abyssal[-at-]yahoo.com! Thanks in advance!

Mariana Musings (09-18-09)

Another cool tyrannosauroid has been discovered in China. Sadly the name isn’t as cool as the critter; Raptorex. I think that’s a world record for the worst name ever given to a dinosaur. It’s the paleontological equivalent to kitsch. All it is is raptor + rex. Ew.

Come to think of it, none of the new dinosaurs unveiled in the past week or so have had very good names. Dinosaur naming in general is a lost art. Next time someone erects a Placename-osaurus, I’m gonna kick the next paleontologist I see in the balls.

Breaking Waves (09-17-09)

Wikipedia

Hollanda (bird) Categorization.

The good guys are winning at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prehistoric foraminiferans. Needless to say I have more of a personal stake in this AFD than some others I’ve mentioned on here.

Vombatiformes Just a fossil range here.

Category:Paleobotany More categorization.

Ezrian

Hoffenism was structured and weakly updated. I’m considering renaming the religon.

Category:Religion was categorized.

Abyssal was created. Needs a lot of work.

Canceled projects updated. This one needs a lot of fixing, too.

PDF Request for Kuhn 1961

If anyone has a PDF of

Kuhn, O. 1961 Die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt der Solnhofener Schiefers. Mit vollständigem Arten und Schriftenverzeichnis –Geol. Bav. 48: 1–68

the Paleobiota of the Solnhofen Formation article would be greatly benefitted by you sending a copy to saint_abyssal[-at-]yahoo.com! Thanks in advance!

Breaking Waves (09-16-09)

Wikipedia

2009 in paleontology has been updated with more dinosaur genera.

The good guys lost over at the Articles for deletion/Barack Obama Joker poster page.

The List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations has been updated.

The Paleobiota of the Solnhofen Formation article has been updated with more information about its fish.

Ezrian Wiki

Flora of Eirbane

Recommended RPG Maker games