Diana Krall, Elvis Costello & Willie Nelson - Crazy (Live)

Goldfish the latest weapon to protect world leaders at summit

"In addition to thousands of heavily-armed police and troops, six goldfish will put their lives on the line to safeguard world leaders at this week's G-20 summit in the South Korean capital, officials said Tuesday. The Convention and Exhibition Center in southern Seoul, which is hosting the event, will use the fish to check the purity of the water supply to restrooms.
"The fish also symbolize an eco-friendly water policy, which recycles used water for the restrooms," Oh Su-Young, PR manager at the center, told AFP, adding that they were just part of the inspection process.
The center, which shares its water supply with a neighboring shopping mall and trade center, recycles more than 37 million gallons (142,000 cubic meters) a year at an annual saving of 360 million won (US$322,436)." goldfish RIP Chubby;

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Steve Martin's gospel song for atheists

"Good morning, I found your cat."

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Pictures of Some Pets That are Different

Black and WTF
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STD Test? There's an App for That

By Ben Popper

November 8, 2010 | 1:16 p.m

"British health officials are hard at work on a new app that will allow users to pee into their cell phones and find out within minutes if they have an STD.
Seriously, we could not make this stuff up if we tried.
According to The Guardian, £4 million have been invested in the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, which is creating a smartphone app that will allow users, "to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and receive a diagnosis within minutes."..." read more

Secretary Bird

"Secretary Bird, an African bird of prey. It is a long-legged bird about four feet (1.2m) in height with a head and hooked beak similar to a hawk's. Its plumage is blue-gray except for black wing tips, thighs, tail, and crest. The bird derives its name from its long crest feathers, which stick out from the back of its head somewhat like the quill pens that office workers once carried behind their ears.
The secretary bird is famous as a hunter of snakes but also eats rodents, large insects, small birds, and eggs. It hunts on foot in open, sparsely wooded grasslands south of the Sahara. It is believed that secretary birds mate for life. The pair builds a nest of sticks on top of small trees. Usually two eggs, white with reddish-brown streaks, are laid in the nest..." Secretary Bird

Pictures that caught my attention

These cats must be related.

Kitty Mittens is the cat on the couch.,

This is one determined cat pic @http://i.imgur.com/GiTYW.jpg I was visiting a friend and took photos of their watch dog??

Celebs beware! New Pandora's box of 'personal' drones that could stalk anyone from Brangelina to your own child

"They could put your mind at ease - or do very much the opposite.
A new arms race is on and it could change everything from the way we parent to how we get our celebrity gossip.
For the technology currently being used by the CIA to ferret out terrorist leaders in the hills of Pakistan is set to arrive in a neighbourhood near you - and there's nowhere to hide..." read more

Slave-making ants target the strong not the weak By Ella Davies Earth News reporter

Losing a single worker might very likely be synonymous with losing half of the colony members

Sebastian Pohl. Interesting facts about ants:read here.

From the Archive: Japanese Internment at Manzanar, California (photo gallery)

In 1943, Ansel Adams, America’s best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. These digital scans of Adams’ original negatives are part of the Library of Congress collection Suffering under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar. Adams was invited to photograph daily life at the camp by Manzanar camp Director Ralph Merritt and from 1943 to 1944, he made a number of trips to the camp, located in California’s Inyo County to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His work has been widely criticized for sanitizing the suffering of interned Japanese-Americans, although he was censored in what he was able to photograph. For example, he was banned from photographing the guard towers at the camp and instead photographed from them, giving away their existence. A selection of these photographed were exhibited in 1944 under the title, Born Free and Equal and was not well received by wartime America. In 1968, Adams donated his Manzanar photographs to the Library of Congress. View photos here

Minnesota Mom Hit With $1.5 Million Fine for Downloading 24 Songs

  Posted Thu Nov 4, 2010 10:38am PDT by Daniel Kreps in Amplifier  "What's the value of a song? Jammie Thomas-Rasset has spent the last few years in court debating that question. The Minnesota mother of four is being penalized for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006, but how much she owes the record labels has been in question. The jury in her third trial has just ruled that Thomas-Rasset should pay Capitol Records $1.5 million, CNET reports, which breaks down to $62,500 per song. It's a heavy penalty considering the 24 tunes would only cost approximately $24 on iTunes, which was Thomas-Rasset' argument, too."Minnesota Mom

The Candle in the Window

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Volcano

By SLAMET RIYADI, Associated Press 

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia – Indonesia's most dangerous volcano sent searing gas clouds down its scorched flanks Wednesday, while in the country's other disaster zone, tsunami survivors were thinking twice about rebuilding homes along battered coastlines.
The twin disasters, which unfolded simultaneously just over a week ago, have claimed nearly 470 lives and sent tens of thousands fleeing to crowded emergency shelters. They were settling in for the long haul Wednesday, with relief operations expected to take weeks, possibly months...read story here:Volcano

Saskatchewan inventor develops heat machine to get rid of bed bugs -video

Bedbugs 9 Ways to Get Rid of Bed Bugs(humor):read here