Secessionists are trolls

Stop feeding them.

That is all.

Anyone else remember the beating Moveon dot org took over its "Betrayus" ad?

Yeah, I know, that's ancient history, runes carved on stone tablets or at best hieroglyphs on papyrus by now.

I think Moveon is owed an apology, Betrayus seems to have been a very apt nickname and truth be told it's a name that was conferred on the Good General by his own troops not made up by Moveon.

Meta is the most consistently entertaining forum on DU

I get more laughs per thousand posts read here in Meta than anywhere else.

Of course when Benny Hill was on the telly I used to think he was hilarious too so my taste in humor is definitely at least suspect.

Carry on carrying on, y'all. I'll be over here in the corner snickering.

An exceptionally balanced vintage redolent with exquisitely piquant shadenfreude

Cool tool for amateur astrophotographers

Have you taken a shot of the sky and don't have a clue what's in it?

Want to know exactly how big the field of your new camera/lens is?

Upload a sky photo you have taken to the free astrometry server and find out where in the sky it is, what's in it and the field of view of your lens in degrees. This also works for shots you find on the web, you can give the server an image URL instead of uploading one.

http://nova.astrometry.net/

It doesn't have to be a very good picture either, straight out of the camera works better than highly process pretty pics at least for me so far.

Here's an example of a not very clear shot of the sky that has been solved by the astrometry server.

http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/35297#original

It's called irony, Lou