Wonkette is even funnier:

Michele Bachmann went on Fox News for the third time this week to “not talk about her gay husband” and instead give her predictably ludicrous viewpoint that nothing will happen to the U.S. credit rating in a default because “we have money to pay it” in whatever way she thinks one pays for good credit ratings without paying off debt. Then she lectures the president for having a lot of “choot-spa,” because Michele has only ever heard of Jews, she has never actually heard Jews. Oh wait, and did she get the meaning wrong, too?

“The president doesn’t want to have to be confronted with priorities in spending, because he has a lot of chutzpah.” We are not at all actual Yiddish experts, but Google search seems to suggest that “chutzpah” is not used to describe someone who has giant avoidance issues. Rather, it usually means the opposite in either its negative or positive connotations. Oh well, everything else about Michele and Marcus “tiny dancer” Bachmann live in Opposite Land too.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/07/14/marcus-bachmanns-big-problem

Dan Savage has some interesting words on why we go after Marcus so much. The world is changing.

No, because you have to be politically correct about political incorrectness.>> ^handmethekeysyou:

"Her husband, Dr. Marcus Bachmann is drawing heated criticism for his highly questionable stance on homosexuality."
Can't we calll this "his ignorant stance on homosexuality" yet? When do we get to do that?

"Her husband, Dr. Marcus Bachmann is drawing heated criticism for his highly questionable stance on homosexuality."

Can't we calll this "his ignorant stance on homosexuality" yet? When do we get to do that?

Marcus Mumford reminds me of Stephen Fry. Both are awesome.

i haven't heard about this stanhope thingy in san marcos. i'm assuming doug stanhope is playing a show there? i'm in fort worth, but my brother is closish to san marcos and i go hang out down there a lot... so............... maybe? i should see when it is. the brother would enjoy it.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^peggedbea:
HEY I WAS AT THIS!!!
he was great!

Fun! Your a fellow texan?! Are you heading to the Stanhope thingy in San Marcus?

>> ^peggedbea:

HEY I WAS AT THIS!!!
he was great!


Fun! Your a fellow texan?! Are you heading to the Stanhope thingy in San Marcus?

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Get to see him this Saturday

He's awesome live. Where you seeing him?


Down in San Marcus, bout an hour drive from Austin.

Marcus Miller, bass
Dean Brown, guitar
Michael 'Patches' Stewart, trumpet;
Roger Byam, saxophone
Poogie Bell, drums
the keyboard player I've seen twice live, but forgot his name:) I think it's Bruce Flowers (?)

When a widespread tsunami warning is issued this is what the list looks like after an 8.9 130 km off the coast of Japan:


Japan, Russia, Marcus Is., N. Marianas, Guam, Wake Is., Taiwan, Yap, Philippines, Marshall Is., Belau, Midway Is., Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Johnston Is., Solomon Is., Kiribati, Howland-baker, Hawaii, Tuvalu, Palmyra Is., Vanuatu, Tokelau, Jarvis Is., Wallis-futuna, Samoa, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga, Mexico, Kermadec is, Fr. Polynesia, Pitcairn, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Antarctica, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru

Here is some insane raw footage of water moving through Miyagi Prefecture-There is another clip with a raging fire moving with the rush of water which may be part of the fire from a turbine a Nuclear Power facility.

Drivers mentioned in youtube description: Ari Vatanen Walter Rohrl Stig Blomqvist Hannu Mikkola Colin McRae Marcus Grönholm Gigi Galli Sebastien Loeb Jari-Matti Latvala Petter Solberg Gilles Panizzi Mads Östberg Michèle Mouton Leszek Kuzaj Emil Triner
From what I know none of them drove Porsche for rallies, maybe Walter Rohrl drove on (tarmac) tracks. Other than that, I can't help you here unfortunately. Maybe you figure it out and let me know.>> ^Enzoblue:

Awesome sift. Wish the drivers named where there though. I recognized some, but really want to know who was driving the red porsche through the 8:00 min. That guy had skillz.

Your "amazon" invocation could not be processed - you did not specify a valid Amazon URL

Refreshness on theoretical physics should be always welcome , however to be technically careful with new proposals is mandatory !
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"Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Published: 6:02PM GMT 14 Nov 2007
Comments 596 | Comment on this article

The E8 pattern (click to enlarge), Garrett Lisi surfing (middle) and out of the water (right)
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.
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Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he has also been a hiking guide and bridge builder (when he slept in a jungle yurt).

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In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. "Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."
Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.
Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.
Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment, working as a patent officer, though failed to achieve the Holy Grail, an overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos.
Now Lisi, currently in Nevada, has come up with a proposal to do this. Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi's work as "fabulous". "It is one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many years," he says.
"Although he cultivates a bit of a surfer-guy image its clear he has put enormous effort and time into working the complexities of this structure out over several years," Prof Smolin tells The Telegraph.
"Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi's theory," adds David Ritz Finkelstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. "This must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on something profound."
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The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a "radical new explanation" for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong force, which binds quarks together in atomic nuclei; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay.
The reason for the excitement is that Lisi's model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.
But some are taking a cooler view. Prof Marcus du Sautoy, of Oxford University and author of Finding Moonshine, told the Telegraph: "The proposal in this paper looks a long shot and there seem to be a lot things still to fill in."
And a colleague Eric Weinstein in America added: "Lisi seems like a hell of a guy. I'd love to meet him. But my friend Lee Smolin is betting on a very very long shot."
Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
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What makes E8 so exciting is that Nature also seems to have embedded it at the heart of many bits of physics. One interpretation of why we have such a quirky list of fundamental particles is because they all result from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8.
Lisi's breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8's structure matched his own. "My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing," he tells New Scientist. "I thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"
What Lisi had realised was that he could find a way to place the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with notional particles, for example those that some physicists predict to be associated with gravity.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says. So far, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. "How cool is that?" he says.
The crucial test of Lisi's work will come only when he has made testable predictions. Lisi is now calculating the masses that the 20 new particles should have, in the hope that they may be spotted when the Large Hadron Collider starts up.
"The theory is very young, and still in development," he told the Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny) likelyhood to this prediction.
"For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online."

many thanks petey

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
burning spear = *quality

FYI:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Burning-Spear-Marcus-Garvey#comment-833559

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
That's good info. Thanks for letting me know. With the last change I made it will last a bit longer.

Recommendations are completely a separate thing, which is good. Videos that just get popular shouldn't have any bearing on what you might like to watch, so recommendations are solely based on what people with the most similar interests have been voting on.

Thanks a lot!

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Lucky,
I did the invocation around 4pm local yesterday; I checked VS at maybe 9pm or so & didn't see that vid on the front page. I didn't dig deeper looking for it; I simply wanted to see if it was still super-prominently placed.



Do vids that get *quality have a higher chance of ending up on a Recommended page, or are they entirely separate things?

Again - great job on all this. Keep it up - we rabble truly appreciate it.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hi SP-

Just wondering if you happened to notice how long the video stayed high up in the hotness listing.

I made another adjustment to make sure they'll stay even longer.


In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Yup - seems to have made a significant change to this one about doing stuff; top of the Hotness listing.

Will be interested to see how long it floats for....