http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/genepax-shows-off-water-powered-fuel-cell-vehicle/

Another pseudo-secret automobile technology that utilizes 'solely water' to move you around. Lets go, Japan! Make it happen!

http://www.merzo.net/index.html

Just thought this was neat for anyone who's obsessed with science fiction. This website compares sizes of different fictional spaceships throughout various genres. Finally you can see how a star destroyer compares to a galaxy class ship. Or which is bigger, Unicron or the Death Star.

We say goodbye today to one of Hollywood's legendary leading men, Charlton Heston. As manager of the Vintage Channel, I'm asking fans to post some Chuck moments for us to enjoy and promote.

I was going to create a Heston playlist after there were a lot of sifts for it, but I went ahead and started one today.
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/swampgirl/Charlton-Heston-A-God-Among-Men
It needs many more!

Please use this thread to self promote your sifts and I'll happily add it to my playlist and shamelessly plug it all week.

I'm sure this week fans will be adding Heston content everywhere. Lets show some love for Chuck!

The star of such superlative and influential movies such as Omega Man, Ben Hur, El Cid, The Ten Commandments and of course the Planet of the Apes series, he was always a huge screen presence. My personal favorite role for him was as Miguel "Mike" Vargas in Orson Welles "Touch of Evil"- a great, great film by any measure.

While his politics were certainly controversial, we should not forget that he marched in many of the very early civil rights marches in the early 60's, and following the assasination of Bobby Kennedy he actually supported President Johnson's gun-control initiatives! He also actively opposed McCarthyism and the Vietnam War.

His views may have evolved later in life, but as backward as some of his later opinions may have been he will be remembered for the pleasure he brought to those who watched him on the Silver Screen.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Heston.

The Last Season. Full size image here

More to the point: Who besides me has a six-foot erection for the premier episode of BSG's final season?

One of the most celebrated authors in Science Fiction has died today, March 18 2008, at age 90. He authored, with Stanley Kubrick, what many consider to be the best Science Fiction movie ever filmed, 2001: A Space Odyssey. He has also been credited as being the visionary futurist who first conceptualized the geostationary communications satellite, making possible all modern communications. We here at the Sift pay tribute below.

Yep, it was only a matter of time, classic Star Trek has met LOLspeak, and the blog Live Granades has LOL-ized everyone's favorite episode:

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Sifter: 09928037A-27 Logging in.

Yes, I remember that colD Day in January, thirty-five year ago.

Of course we never saw it coming. We just vieweD the event of that infamous Day as a reasonable and mild Disciplinary measure towarDs an unusually aggressive sifter, but oh how we were wrong.

There were voices of reason, yes, but they were Dismissed as alarmist and histrionic. If only I'D the benefit of hinDsight. If only I'D the wisDom and courage to listen.

Slowly, things starteD to worsen. The color mauve was banneD for charter member screen names; the dreaded *takeoffyourpants invocation was enacted and enforced; and worst of all, Dag required that the letter 'D' always be capitalizeD.

Soon after we were sent off to sift mines, where we were expecteD to sift viDeos 20 hours a Day without breaks. Failure to comply would often be met with extremely sarcastic comments and/or Death; and the mere sweat off our backs was apparently not enough for this most evil of overlorDs, as our chilDren and pets were forceD to work the sift mines as well.

But ToDay is a new Day. ToDay is the Day I have officially haD enough. ToDay is the Day I Declare myself a free man. ToDay is the Day I type the letter D in lowercase, and for the sake of humanity, I compel you to Do the same. I might not make it to the mountain top, but I will travel as far as these olD legs can carry me.

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Here's my short list:

Clarke's Rendevous with Rama (in the works?)
Mary Doria Russel's The Sparrow
John Varley's Titan
Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep