A Cute Overload mentions "Cute Things Falling Asleep" that has many video clips and photographs of various animals and humans falling asleep. Also, the site mentioned "Cute Things Laughing" as well.

the beeb apparently doesn't pony up the embeds, but i just have to share this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8108297.stm

WAAAAAANT

Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The four legged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding the Moscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown they demonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog skills. Those skills can include “the hunt for shawarma” for example, the popular among Muscovites eastern cuisine dish. This hunt scene can be seen as this:

Regular Moscow busy street with some small food kiosks. A middle-aged man buys himself a piece of hot fast food and walks aside chewing it without a rush. Then just in a second he jumps up frightened - some doggy has sneaked up on him and barked out loudly. His tasty snack falls out from his hands down to the ground and the dog gets it. Just ten minutes later, on the same place, the teen youngster loses his dinner in exactly the same manner. The modern Russian dogs are on their urban hunt.

“This method of ambushing people from their back is widely exercised by Moscow dogs”, saying A. Poiarkov, working in Ecology and Evolution Institute of Moscow. “The main point here is to define who would drop the food scared and who won’t, but the dogs are great psychologists they can do it better than us”.


Full article and adorable pictures here

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2462

A lot of milestones being reached these days. The latest is upvoter in extremis, Gratefulmom, who danced her way to a bronze diamond.

The bear who seems pleased with her cubs has upvoted over 8500 videos since the siftocalypse, which I'm pretty sure must be some kind of record. Speaking of records, she has reached the diamond rank just 5 months after joining the sift. That's some impressive powersifting, GM

So show some love for this quality sifter and upvote her petite pqueue or have a look at her sifted vids. Congrats, Gratefulmom, and well done!

Can we have a poll on Cat video's I'm undecided as to if i like them or not. in some ways i think the obsession with cats has gone to far what about the other animals ? its true cats can be funny and cute but Manny other creatures can be as well so why discriminate why has this meme got stuck on cats ?

I couldn't find a way to embed the video but I wanted to share with everyone!

http://www.wmur.com/family/18814224/detail.html

No, the Cold War is NOT over, comrades. The Great People's Army of Glorious Soviet Siftalist Republics has promoted Comrade KOMMIE to Supreme Diamond Commander of Soviet Video Forces. For half of Five Year Plan Comrade Commander KOMMIE has been part of Grand Siftalists Forces, and now glorious rank of Diamond - Bronze Order of Lenin is his reward. We make celebrate of Comrade KOMMIE's promotion by make vote to People's Queue, make drink of People's Vodka, spit on capitalist pig Digg, and make congratulate his Glorious achievement.

Attendance is mandatory, under penalty of gulag, Glorious Re-education, and death.

http://www.rd.com/clean-jokes-and-laughs/50-jokes-for-50-states/article111765.html

Something for everyone!

Because the siftlounge keeps getting back to the cats & kittens subject, i thought it might be fun to know the ratio cats:sifters.

1. How many cats do you have? (if '0' goto question 7/8)
2. What are their names? (and why)
3. Where did you get them? (and how)
4. How old are they?
5. What do they look like (pics!)
6. What are their specialities?
7. why cats or why not cats?
8. and ok, ok.. whats your fav catvid on the sift?

(note: this thread is open to random cat ramblings like 'ahhhh, my cat just did random-extraordinary-cat-thing-X', 'awwww, i lurv kittens so muchhhh xxx lurv lurv heart heart', 'my dog just ate a cat' or maybe even discussion of questions like 'can i be a succesful sifter even if i don't own a couple cats')

Old green eyes does it his way, baby. Luck be an Abyssinian tonight.

http://www.funnyanimalvideos.com/ has embeddable video codes, but VS doesn't like it. Is anyone else having the same problem? I am running low to submit to VS. [grin]

Thank you in advance.

http://laura.videosift.com/

http://www.videosift.com/video/Greg-Brown-at-Engert-Theatre

Give her a push, won't you?

http://issykitty.videosift.com/
Holy Cats! IssyKitty gets her 500th star point! Valued member since August of '07 Issy has made her mark on the Sift in both culture and content. I have been a disciple of Iss the Great, since our initial exchange was the first time the internet really talked back nicely to me. I am a student of the IssyKitty school of comment upvoting, which is if you have something nice to say, say it. If not prepare for a scratchin'! A little rundown on what it is to be Issy:

First (and characteristic) comment on the Sift:
>> ^Issykitty:
Yes, agree with twiddles... the annoying grating sounds of the bipeds were highly distracting from fully enjoying cuteness.

Her first Sifted Submission (I think):
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pavarotti-Non-tamo-piu-by-Tosti

Highest Rated:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Small-House-Seems-Spacious

She had the astoundingly good idea for a *happy channel a couple of months ago, and it's proven to have a lot of use.

Here's the key to Issydom, though: instead of running your mouth all the time, hunker down and get to voting. Look at these stats:

Votes Cast: 8993
Comments Posted: 1958

So let's congratulate Queen IssyKitty on her silver diamond coronation! But remember, be nice!

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW???

Oh Happy Siftdom! Our very own cuties CRITTTTER , who I noticed had just recently become a charter member, AND GWIZ have now attained SILVER STARS! That's right, comrades!

CRITTTTER's a Sifter of impeccable taste, especially in things of a creative vintage/music nature. How can you resist that adorable Squink! If you have the urge to * promote here is
critttter's QUEUEUEUEUE! and
critttter's SIFTED LIBRARY!
critttter's PERSONAL QUEUED VIDS!


EDIT: Here are links to GWIZ's submissions. Please promote! There are quite a few gems in der!
gwiz's QUEUE!!!
gwiz's PQUEUED!!!
gwiz's SIFTED LIBRARY!!!


CONGRATULATE our furriends critttter AND gwiz, or face the WRATH OF ISSYKITTY...

Super cuteness on this link.

Enjoy.