Carnival of souls

* Water monsters on the march! Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 50-foot prehistoric carnivorous aquatic reptile called a pliosaur, the biggest such creature ever found. (Via Matthew Yglesias.)

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* Ain’t It Cool News reports that banes of Peter Jackson’s existence (and the existence of Lord of the Rings fans everywhere) Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne have jumped/been pushed from New Line, which is now a full sub-unit of Warner Bros.

* Here’s yet another striking poster for The Ruins. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)

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* Here’s a nifty eight-minute recap video to bring everyone up to speed on Battlestar Galactica in time for Season Four. (Via Whitney Matheson.)

* Heidi MacDonald points out the irony inherent in a comic about the Holocaust, an atrocity perpetrated by people who believed other people were inferior to them by virtue of their Jewishness, by Dave Sim, a person who believes other people are inferior to him by virtue of their femaleness. Tom Spurgeon points out the foolishness of the position that one should separate evaluations of Sim’s work from evaluations of Sim’s ideas since the former is so thoroughly informed by the latter. And I point out that his work is ugly these days anyway.

* I liked this World War II poster that Andrew Sullivan dug up:

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* Finally, no Lost links tonight, for some reason!