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  Here is 18 exposures of the Elelphants Trunk (vdb142) recorded from the observatory in Wasilla. I used an EOS 40D camera for this through an 8" APO refractor. This light travelled aboute 2400 years before landing on my cameras sensor.
 It's amazing to me that the unsupported rumour of poor undocumented labourers getting free health care - would cause a well-insured white man to arc up in front of a joint session of congress.
Joe Wilson wants to make very sure that people like this get no healthcare within US borders.  Don't worry, Joe - they will be denied healthcare as usual in the US, rounded up by border patrol thugs, handcuffed, treated like cattle and thrown over the border - as per usual. I see you are an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, SC. Jesus loves you, I'm sure.  This is what happened when I Googled "Coffee cats." http://www.coffeecats.com/These are two things that I love, so can you blame me for my curiousity? Oh, and if you're a cat hater, whatcha doin' here, foo? If you're a coffee hater, whatthehelliswrongwithyou???!!! I needs me some kona coffee right about now...  <>
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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/09/chinas-new-online-music-rules-a-headache-for-search-engines.ars Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/07/discovery-species-papua-new-guinea World of Gundamcraft http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-09-03/20090903235559952,1.shtml Gunkanjima "Battleship Island" http://www.viceland.com/wp/2009/04/battleship-island-japans-rotting-metropolis/?src=us  As an aperitif before the London SiftUp, here is a recount of the trip Almanildo, Haldaug and I took this summer. Right after I received my old-school VideoSift T-shirt, the three of us went camping across the deep woods north of Oslo called Nordmarka, which translates to "The Northern Wilderness". (Yes, there is also a western wilderness, an eastern wilderness, and a southern wilderness. Oslo is cool like that.) During the two-day trip, we passed the highest point in these woods, called Kikut. What better place to inaugurate this long-awaited fashion statement? Here it is adorning yours truly for the very first time:
Oslo city is hidden behind the hills in the background. Here are the three of us quite exhausted from climbing the steep hill up to Kikut: ... more inside ...  Can you find them?
Right at this moment, as you are reading this, women all over the world are giving birth. Some are doing it in high tech obstetric units, some are doing it in simple community hospitals, some are doing it with a war going on outside, some are doing it amidst poverty and squalor, some are doing it in a taxi or other vehicle, and some are doing it in the peace and comfort of their own home. ... more inside ...  We're off to our old stomping grounds for a family vacation in the Osaka/Kyoto area. Persephone and I met and got married there in the early 90s - we were both teaching English in the same school. (her the Australian variety, me the yankee doodle type). I usually would spend the hour lesson playing games - wherein the kids competed against each other for points up on the whiteboard. We did have fun- but I'm not sure how much English was learned. Anyway, we've got 4 rail passes and we're going to tour around and meet up with some old '90s friends- eating okonomiyaki and soaking it all in at some hotsprings. Tickets were incredibly cheap. We're getting the 4 of us from the Gold Coast (just south of Brisbane) to Osaka and back for less than $1,800 US. Thanks JetStar. We'll be gone for 2 weeks in total - and my presence here will be light. I debated trying to go without a laptop - but that's just crazy, so laptop and iPhone are both coming- though my connection will be dependent on the whims of WiFi. #1 Video... more inside ...Top 15 Videos... more inside ...Top Comments... more inside ...Most Votes Cast... more inside ...<>
 Dear sifters and readers, This is a little odd, but I feel led to ask you all for a moment of time to consider your free resources and what they might acomplish despite your normal usage. Several years ago, my parents and those with their similar passion founded an organization whose goal is to help deliquent minors to eventually help them and to educate and develope these children to be productive and loving members of society. Since then, this organization has treated children who need personal counseling and care beyond that which is required by government law. In recent years, the governement stance on these children is to institutionalize them in MASS programs that are cheap. Infortunately for the kids, these treatments are not effective personally and amount to a sort of temporary prison that will not help them in any way in the long run.
I'm asking a simple thing. Use "goodsearch.com" instead of google.com. Use "goodshop.com" instead of newegg directly, or amazon, or whatever. Enter "Hermitage House Youth Services" as your "who do you goodsearch for" and you will be giving to a worthy and sift-user-related charity that can directy contribute to the wellfare of minor offenders who need help.
If you don't find what you want on goodsearch, you always have the option of using google, but even if you do, you'll have helped us anyway. Can you spare 10 seconds for a lost child?!  I'm sitting here at my desk at work. This is not unusual, but it is the last time I'll be sitting here for eight months. I'm taking an educational leave from work and am heading back to school. I work in the IT department of a University as a Systems Administrator and have been here for 11 and a half years. The funny thing is that I came to this university after high school and ended up dropping out in my second term. I was busy working at an internet provider at the time and was making money and learning more about computers and the internet than I was at school so I ended up dropping out. I worked at the internet provider for about six years and then got a job as a technician at the University. I've moved up in the University, but I can't really move up any more unless I have a degree. So now I'm heading back to school to work on a degree, on Tuesday I'll be coming back to the University as a student rather than an employee. I won't finish the degree in the eight months, but I'll make a significant dent in it and then do a class at a time while I'm working. So what does this mean to my fellow sifters? Well I probably won't be able to try to snipe the Zero Punctuation vids each week for the next while. I'm not sure how much time I'll have for sifting while I'm studying and doing the student thing and juggling family life. I'm looking forward to the change for the next eight months, I'm hoping that it refreshes me. Cheers Top 11 Gamers As Found In Real Life
http://www.bamkapow.com/top-11-gamers-as-found-in-real-life-3835-p.html Funny car license plates http://www.flickr.com/photos/30754985@N08/sets/72157607991227762/show/with/2938358377/ Non-cheating TF2 players get a halo http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2787 An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved? http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2666 Wikipedia vs. Predator http://wikipediavspredator.com/ One too many Beasts http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/2/ Star Wars in teh Ghetto http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/470/star20wars.jpg  As far as real time strategy games go, I think I've found my absoulte favorite. DOTA or Defence of the ancients is a custom Warcraft 3 map where 10 players - 5 on each opposing team use troops (referred to as 'creeps') to get to the opposing teams main base and destroy it. After years of gaming and playing things like Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Counterstrike, Bioshock, and even more obscure games like Gunbound, I find myself always coming back to DOTA to because the strategy of the game never gets boring. Now the makers of the custom map are coming out with thier own game!!!
 Our company isn't doing too great and myself and a couple of others might be laid off tomorrow...or just given a part time role. Since I don't know how to handle my time without somebody telling me how to, I sense that I'll be getting into a lot of trouble. I know you're thinking "why does this have to happen to rottenseed, he's such a nice fella". And to that one person who thought that and that obviously doesn't know me, I say: don't worry, I'll go back to slangin' rocks if I have to. Point of the story: Who wants some crack? Study Says It's Easier For Teens To Buy Marijuana Than Beer
By: Ty Brennan A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has some startling results about teens and drugs. In their study, they found that 40 percent of teens could get marijuana within a day; another quarter said they could get it within an hour. In another portion of the survey, teens between the ages of 12 and 17 say it's easier to get marijuana than buy cigarettes, beer or prescription drugs. That number is up 37 percent from 2007. But, local law enforcement says these numbers don't match up to what's happening here in east Idaho. Kim Ellis, Pocatello Police department: "That's something that we're seeing here, but as far as what we're seeing the statistics don't bear out, that way, we're seeing a lot more underage consumption citations than marijuana, possession of marijuana." According the Pocatello Police Department, since the beginning of the year there were 58 alcohol violations with minors younger than 18, while there were only 12 marijuana violations. Law enforcement credit's this to in school programs like "DARE" and having school resource officers available. For more information about the study: www.casacolumbia.org http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=11003084 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [**Note: The CASA study actually reported that teens could more readily access pot than beer or prescription drugs; the percentage of teens reporting that either marijuana or cigarettes were the "easiest to buy" were equal (26 percent) -- got to love the mainstream media's dedication to accuracy in reporting. That said, the percentage of Americans actually smoking cigarettes is now at an all-time low.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So I ask ya, who is really winning the war on drugs? To me it sounds like the only people winning in this situation are the drug dealers. It's certainly not the taxpayers and it's certainly not the kids who are able to get their hands on these things. Legalize and tax the shit already!!! <>
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It's called Heroes of Newerth and it looks fantastic. I encourage anyone who used to /does play DOTA to check it out. And if you didn't play or havn't heard of it when the open beta starts it'd be a good time to check it out. signup on their webpage and just check out the game here:
