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Cool!

Oooh, has it got to the stage where you don't mind us throwing this stuff onto the net? Any objections if I put Back To The Wreckage up on my blog? 

I liked it. Time war as a legend passed on by the animals. Liked the Bad Wolf Reference.

Just got home from work to find my copy on the table. Dead-shiny-bats.

Have blogged this, and even committed my first tweet. Which, you know, kind of makes me feel dirty...

What of artists? Anyone lined up, or is it open for portfolio submissions?

You can get it real cheap too. I think both myself and the misses got ours for a pound each (we both bought one before we got together).

Sign me up for art duties! Here's hoping for wacky dalek fun!

Count Duckular's castle. If that is disqualified through not being from a film, I'll go for the one in Krull with the same teleporting facility.

There is a new comic called Vanguard that is about to come out. I have heard from entirely unbiased sources that it will be worth checking out.

I've been drawing carnivorous worm creatures for a project Locustofdeath has roped myself and several others here into. Check out my blog link at the bottom for more.

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For me too

And so the eternal war of Lumpers and Splitters continues...

I do quite like dinosaurs though. I was curious to find out that one of the creatures that I would consider an archetypal dinosaur, the dimetrodon, was not actually a dinosaur. Apart from the fact it's big and scaley with great big teeth.*

Smeg it. It's a dinosaur. Whatever the experts say.

[EDIT- One wiki concerning the dimetrodon, later "As a synapsid it was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards and snakes."
Hmmm. I'm not sure I believe them, but that's interesting.]

*In case you don't know, (and I'm sure many here do) it's to do with the placement of their legs apparently. Dinosaurs essentially have their legs underneath them, like mammals and birds. I think dimetrodons have their legs positioned like lizards and crocodiles, i.e. either side of their body. They essentially walk with their elbows bent. An interesting differentiation considering the word 'dinosaur' literally means 'thunder-lizard'. It was an interesting factoid to learn though.

While it is true that non-avian dinosaurs have this leg arrangement, meaning they are truly terrible at being lizards, this is not what separates out the Dimetrodon. Synapsids are distinct for having arches of bone on their skulls called Zygomatic arches. Mammals, which I understand to be the last of the Synapsids, still have these today. Reptiles don't have this zygomatic arch while Dimetrodons do, and therefore they cannot be reptiles, though I believe they existed at a time pretty close to the point at which Synapsids and Reptiles went their separate cladistic ways (pretty close on a geological scale, at least).

Just got back from this, due to going the long way home. Great to meet you all, will definitely be up for doing that again!