A complex Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) instrument in seen in operation at Davis station in Antarctica with the glow of the Aurora Australis also in the sky, in this undated photo supplied by the Australian Antarctic Division. Physicists from the division and the University of Adelaide have developed the LIDAR to study the middle atmosphere above Davis Station. The LIDAR obtains information by sending pulses of green laser light into the sky and measuring the extremely small spectral changes that take place when the light is scattered by atmospheric gases and aerosols. The information collected will be used to assess long-term climate trends and to better understand atmospheric motions. REUTERS/Andrew Dowdy-Australian Antarctic Division





John Ellis Bush, 21, shown in this photo provided by the Austin, Texas Police Department, was arrested early Friday morning, Sept. 16, 2005, in Austin and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, a Travis County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. Bush is the youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. (AP Photo/Austin Police Department)





A casket marked with the name Delores Belmonte came to rest at the doors of St. Bernard Catholic Church in St. Bernard, La. Friday Sept. 16, 2005. The flood waters of Hurricane Katrina caused some caskets to float out of their tombs. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringaus)





South African inventor Sonette Ehlers displays her new anti-rape female condom, called 'Rapex,' at her house in Klaemond, 120 kms from Cape Town. 'Rapex' aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)






Bill Gates (L) Microsoft Corp.'s chairman, is seen with actor Jon Heder, best know for his role in the film 'Napoleon Dynamite', in a humorous video about college recruitment shown to software developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles September 13, 2005. Gates made a major push to get software developers to build programs for the next versions of the company's Windows and Office computer operating systems, saying new capabilities should drive a new wave of personal computer sales. Microsoft has promised to launch Windows Vista, known by its former code-name Longhorn, in the second half of 2006. The next version of Office is expected to launch in the same time frame. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)





A female chimpanzee(C) yawns as two others nod-off, at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Scientists unveiled the genetic code of the chimpanzee, showing that Man is biologically distinct from ape thanks to a small handful of important differences in DNA.(AFP/File/Rob Elliott)





Workers adjust new aluminum sheeting for the spheres of the 'Atomium' in Brussels, in this Thursday May 26, 2005 file photo. The Atomium, one of Belgium's most famous landmarks, was restored to its shiny splendor Friday Sept. 16, 2005, the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel. (AP Photo)





Kim Sturla talks on the phone as she prepares to take her rescued chickens from San Francisco's International Airport September 16, 2005. Sturla, who is co-founder and director of Animal Place, an animal rescue ranch in Vacaville, California, searched through more than 15,000 dead and mutilated chickens from Hurricane Katrina on a farm in Mount Oliver, Mississippi, to save 1,000 chickens. Sturla is taking in 100 chickens in hopes of finding homes for them, while the rest were sent to shelters in New York and Texas. REUTERS/Kimberly White





This photo supplied by the Guinness World Records book shows Suresh Joachim on his way to breaking the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV, as Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, center, watch in New York Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. Joachim did his TV viewing as part of the 'Guinness World Record Breaker Week' on the syndicated 'Live With Regis and Kelly' television show. He finished early Friday morning with 69 hours and 48 minutes.(AP Photo/Guinness World Records book)

The chimp picture is great fodder for the looter photoshop thread.

Quoted: The chimp picture is great fodder for the looter photoshop thread.

and a thread lock.

.... Sturla is taking in 100 chickens in hopes of finding homes for them...

I got a home for 'em.

Right next to my mashed potatoes.

That #1 photo is cooler than shit.

Quoted: South African inventor Sonette Ehlers displays her new anti-rape female condom, called 'Rapex,' at her house in Klaemond, 120 kms from Cape Town. 'Rapex' aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)

First raped and then beat to death after the rapist gets his Rosco chewed. A good thought, but a .357 in the ear canal is a much better solution.

Nightshift bump.