While You Were Sleeping, Clive Palmer’s Dinosaur Theme Park Finally Opened Up Shop

Palmersaurus Is Open For Business

In case you thought this whole thing was a joke: this whole thing was not a joke.

Over the weekend, eccentric mining mogul Clive Palmer, the federal member for Fairfax, finally opened Palmersaurus: the Jurassic Park-themed park located inside Palmer’s Palmer Coolum Resort. The ceremony was attended by 160 moving dinosaurs, and a handful of Irwins.

The dinosaurs range from 2.5 metres to 22 metres in length, and are up to 10 metres tall. They are hysterically unrealistic.

Apart from the fact that animatronic technology seems to not have progressed since the early ’90s, they sound less like dinosaurs and more like tigers, elephants and, occasionally, goats.

Entry to Palmersaurus costs only $100 for a family of four. See you there.

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R.I.P Peter O’Toole

Peter O’Toole, the charismatic, eloquent, flamboyant and beloved actor — and eight-time Academy Award nominee — died on Saturday after a long illness.

O’Toole’s first nomination came from his work as the lead of the 1962 epic Lawrence Of Arabia. He followed up with roles in Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982) and Venus (2006). He voiced the terrifying food critic Anton Ego in Pixar’s Ratatouille, and broke the record for the most Oscar nominations without a win — a blow softened somewhat by the Honorary Oscar he was awarded in 2003.

After a health scare in 1975, O’Toole quit a long and infamous relationship with booze that, alongside Richard Harris and Richard Burton, had him labeled as a new breed of ‘hard drinking Hollywood hellraisers’. “If you can’t do something willingly and joyfully, then don’t do it,” he said of his sobriety. “If you give up drinking, don’t go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.”

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Beyoncé’s New Album Is Still Winning The Internet

It’s now been three days since Beyoncé surprised everybody into paying for her brand new album, and the internet still hasn’t settled down about it. Billboard spoke to a few anonymous people behind the release, which was kept secret through a combination of code names and speed, apparently only beginning to take its shape in October.

While many critics are calling it her best album yet, that doesn’t make Beyoncé immune to backlash: parents are angry about its X-rated content, and this guy just wants everyone to calm down.

The best thing to come out of all the coverage? The GIFs.

Dropping a napkin:

Being ‘Drunk In Love’:

Being outside a house in Brunswick:

Being excellent at wind:

And being ‘Flawless’:

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Her? Enjoyed Spike Jonze’s Her 

Mae Whitman is the actress behind one of the best recurring jokes in Arrested Development: Ann Veal, AKA Egg, Plain, Ann Hog, Bland, Yam, And, Mouth, Plant and Blank.

Thankfully, she has a sense of humour about her time portraying the blandest character in the Arrested Development universe — a character who, much like Spike Jonze’s new film, is best known as “…Her?”

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Feature image by Bianca O’Neill.