One of the perks of being a B-list sciece blogger is that people send me stuff that they would like me to promote to my dozens of readers. Such as, for example, National Geographic's very silly Dino Central Park site, where you can frighten simulated New Yorkers with simulated dinosaurs. Because... well, really, do you need a reason?
This is in connection with their Sunday dinosaur extravaganza on the National Geographic Channel. And you really can't go far wrong with shows about dinosaurs...
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As usual, they made a great website and you can have fun with the "hidden camera" and try to figure out how many little movies did they have to make for the trick to work (i.e., try to "roar" when the people are on different places on the screen):
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Maybe they just went CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP, like BIG BIRDS.
Dinosaurs terrorizing New Yorkers? How unrealistic. Obviously you should be terrorizing simulated ancient Hebrews.