''Consonant shift is a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language. This is why David Bowie and the Pixies are seminal.''

The form of revenue and the sources of revenue are the most fetishistic expression of the relations of capitalist production. It is their form of existence as it appears on the surface, divorced from the hidden connections and the intermediate connecting links. Thus the land becomes the source of rent, capital the source of profit, and labour the source of wages. The distorted form in which the real inversion is expressed is naturally reproduced in the views of the agents of this mode of production. It is a kind of fiction without fantasy, a religion of the vulgar.

If you enjoy a hiking trip with your dog every now and then, you have to realize that you are at risk for exposing your dog to dog ticks. Dog ticks are usually obtained in the woods and open fields, especially as you go into certain places where the trees are high and insects are numerous. If you happen to go to a spot where dark fleas lurk, then your dog might go home with ticks that could make it very uncomfortable. It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty.

In the teaching of Bahá'u'lláh, it is written: 'By the Power of the Holy Spirit alone is man able to progress, for the power of man is limited and the Divine Power is boundless.' The reading of history brings us to the conclusion that all truly great men, the benefactors of the human race, those who have moved men to love the right and hate the wrong and who have caused real progress, all these have been inspired by the force of the Holy Spirit. This is why we have asked Daniel Lanois to produce our next album.

''It is possible to conceive of disconnected space-times, each existing but unable to interact with one another. An easily visualized metaphor is a group of separate soap bubbles, in which observers living on one soap bubble cannot interact with those on other soap bubbles, even in principle. According to one common terminology, each ''soap bubble'' of space-time is denoted as a universe, whereas our particular space-time is denoted as the Universe, just as we call our moon the Moon. The entire collection of these separate space-times is denoted as the multiverse. That's why I think this black kid could be the next Edge.''

''Newton's most important contribution to science was his mathematical definition of how motion changes with time. He showed that the force causing apples to fall is the same force that drives planetary motions and produces tides. However, Newton was puzzled by the fact that gravity seemed to operate instantaneously at a distance. He admitted he could only describe it without understanding how it worked. Not until Einstein's general theory of relativity was gravity changed from a ''force'' to the movement of matter along the shortest space in a curved spacetime. The Sun bends spacetime, and spacetime tells planets how to move. For Newton, both space and time were absolute. Space was a fixed, infinite, unmoving metric against which absolute motions could be measured. Newton also believed the universe was pervaded by a single absolute time that could be symbolized by an imaginary clock off somewhere in space. Einstein changed all this with his relativity theories, and once wrote, ''Newton, forgive me.'' So, is time travel possible? Let's just say I haven't ruled out doing another duet with Frank Sinatra.''

''We are perfectly justified in maintaining that only what is within ourselves can be immediately and directly perceived, and that only my own existence can be the object of a mere perception. Thus the existence of a real object outside me can never be given immediately and directly in perception, but can only be added in thought to the perception, which is a modification of the internal sense, and thus inferred as its external cause ... . In the true sense of the word, therefore, I can never perceive external things, but I can only infer their existence from my own internal perception, regarding the perception as an effect of something external that must be the proximate cause. It must not be supposed, therefore, that an idealist is someone who denies the existence of external objects of the senses; all he does is to deny that they are known by immediate and direct perception. Now everyone stop illegal file-sharing on the internet, it makes me cry''

''''Old Wisdom School'' is a collective name for the first group of sects to evolve out of early Buddhism. The most prominent of these, the Sarvaastivaada, fixed its philosophical attention on the Buddha's teaching that the five skandhas, or 'transitory factors of worldly existence', namely, material form, feeling, perception, impulses and awareness were not the self. Whereas the Buddha left it undiscussed whether a self exists at all, the Sarvaastivaadins radicalized his teaching into a doctrine that flatly denies all substance. As a rock star, I have two instincts: I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.''

''By the historical periods of the Pharaohs in Egypt, the Vedic Kings in India, the Tribes of Israel, and the Mayan Civilization in North America, among other ancient populations, precious metals began to have value attached to them. In some cases rules for ownership, distribution, and trade were created, enforced, and agreed upon by the respective peoples. By the above periods metalworkers were very skilled at creating objects of adornment, religious artifacts, and trade instruments of precious metals (non-ferrous), as well as weaponry usually of ferrous metals and/or alloys. These skills were finely honed and well executed. The techniques were practiced by artisans, blacksmiths, atharvavedic practitioners, alchemists, and other categories of metalworkers around the globe. For example, the ancient technique of granulation is found around the world in numerous ancient cultures before the historic record shows people traveled seas or overland to far regions of the earth to share this process that still being used by metalsmiths today. Consequently, U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. ''

Many a man uses his whole gamut of tricks in his proverbial bag to pick a gorgeous woman's interest. From signifying a lightening quick wit, to sharing interesting stories about himself. Doing magic tricks like a clown out of Barnum & Bailey's festival to asking her interesting questions and then sitting there quiet the way people sit in church.If he has a huge schlong like I do, pulling it out and showing it to her. (Mine is nine inches... when I gauge from the back of my arse- ca-ching!). And the list goes on.

But to his disappointment her eyes wander to her cell phone to check to see if anyone called or text messaged her. They roam to the people in back of him. In fact, just about everything in his surroundings seems to charm her except for him, causing a billion and one insecurities to snake into his mind, such as...

1). She must think I am ugly as sin.
2). Does she find me as dull as Gloucester cheese?
3). Do I have the personality of a houseplant?
4). Did I forget to wear deodorant?
5). Is my personality going to be an obituary in tomorrow's paper?

And if he's sour, he might think, ''She's like a hot toilet seat: some guy was there before me, another will be there when I get up.'' That's what I thought when I met Paula Yates, but luckily, I'm a married man.

Are they his daughters?

(not a serious question)

He's not that smart. He just lost $140 million in share value due to the sale of Palm to HP.

This thread wins the internet.

I agree.

Um... is he wearing platform thongs up there?

''...For the last ten or fifteen years, the immense and proliferating criticizability of things, institutions, practices, and discourses; a sort of general feeling that the ground was crumbling beneath our feet, especially in places where it seemed most familiar, most solid, and closest to us, to our bodies, to our everyday gestures. But alongside this crumbling and the astonishing efficacy of discontinuous, particular, and local critiques, the facts were also revealing something... beneath this whole thematic, through it and even within it, we have seen what might be called the insurrection of subjugated knowledges. Which is why you should all buy iPods. Until I tell you to buy a Pre handset, which is then what you should do also.''

Ha.

''The great Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (born sometime between 495 and 480 B.C.) proposed four paradoxes in an effort to challenge the accepted notions of space and time that he encountered in various philosophical circles. His paradoxes confounded mathematicians for centuries, and it wasn't until Cantor's development (in the 1860's and 1870's) of the theory of infinite sets that the paradoxes could be fully resolved.

Zeno's paradoxes focus on the relation of the discrete to the continuous, an issue that is at the very heart of mathematics. Zeno's first paradox attacks the notion held by many philosophers of his day that space was infinitely divisible, and that motion was therefore continuous.

A runner wants to run a certain distance - let us say 100 meters - in a finite time. But to reach the 100-meter mark, the runner must first reach the 50-meter mark, and to reach that, the runner must first run 25 meters. But to do that, he or she must first run 12.5 meters.

Since space is infinitely divisible, we can repeat these 'requirements' forever. Thus the runner has to reach an infinite number of 'midpoints' in a finite time. This is impossible, so the runner can never reach his goal. In general, anyone who wants to move from one point to another must meet these requirements, and so motion is impossible, and what we perceive as motion is merely an illusion.

And that's how you get stuck in a moment that you can't get out of.''

While looking at the empty box of tissues, the glass of orange juice, and the cold medicines and the 22 Grammy awards sitting on my desktop, I was longing for some comfort food.

And what better medicine for a cold than homemade chicken soup. So I dragged out my cookbooks and started researching how to make quick and easy but nutritious and delicious chicken soup. And good for you too.

All my cookbooks agree that great chicken soup starts with great chicken stock but when it comes to making the broth, they offer a variety of choices. Some call for poaching a whole chicken in water with various chopped vegetables; others want you to remove and reserve the chicken meat while boiling the bones; and some suggest you quarter the chicken, sauté it, and add water and vegetables. My favorite recipe comes from an article in Cooks Illustrated and uses a combination of all three methods.

This is a recipe for making Bono's chicken soup is from scratch, not with leftovers from last night’s roasted chicken dinner The beauty of this soup is in its simplicity and how one bird makes one pot of soup. It calls for removing the breast meat prior to cooking and reserving for final preparations. The rest of the chicken will be used for making the broth. This is important to note because the chicken parts used to make the broth will be devoid of flavor after 45 minutes of cooking.

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoons olive oil
1 whole chicken, breasts removed and reserved
2 onions
2 quarts boiling water
Salt
2 bay leaves
1 large carrot
1 celery stalk
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
Ground pepper

PREP WORK

You could use the breast meat in this soup recipe but I prefer to cook them separately in another recipe. So does The Edge. If you do use them, wait until the soup is almost finished and then add them back to the pot until they are cooked through. Should only take about 8 to 10 minutes.

Dice the onion. Peel the carrots and cut them as well as the celery into 1/4 to 1/2 inch pieces then mince the fresh parsley leaves.

HOW TO MAKE AT HOME

Heat the oil in a large heavy-bottomed soup pot and sauté the breasts until they are light brown, about 5 minutes. Remove the breasts and set aside. Add half of the onions and sauté until translucent, approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Remove and set aside.

Cut up the remaining parts of the chicken (not the breasts) into small pieces to allow them to release their juices in the shortest time possible. This is the hardest part of the recipe. If you have a meat cleaver, it makes the job easier, but if you don’t, do the best you can with a chefs knife.

Add the pieces to the pot, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes until no longer pink. Return the onion to the pot, reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer until the chicken releases its juices, about 20 minutes. Add boiling water, reserved chicken breasts, 2 teaspoons of salt, and bay leaves. Cover and simmer until chicken breasts are cooked, about 20 minutes. Increase the heat if necessary.

Remove chicken breasts and set aside. Strain and reserve broth. Skim fat from the broth, reserving 2 tablespoons to be used to cook the vegetables. Add the reserved fat to the soup pot and sauté the remaining onions along with the carrot and celery for about 5 minutes.

When the chicken breasts are cool enough to handle, remove and discard the skin and bones. Shred the breast meat into bite sized pieces and add to the pot. Add thyme and reserved broth; simmer until the vegetables are tender.

Season with salt and pepper, add parsley and serve. You can also add noodles, orzo, or small pasta shells and cook until tender.

It's a beautiful day! Whoaah, whhoah, whoa.

''Another possibility is that we are ''stuck'' in a 3+1 dimensional (i.e. three spatial dimensions plus the time dimension) subspace of the full universe. If such sub-spacetimes are exceptional sets within a larger-dimensional one, there typically exist properly localized matter and Yang-Mills gauge fields. These ''exceptional sets'' are ubiquitous in Calabi-Yau n-folds and may be described as subspaces without local deformations, akin to a crease in a sheet of paper or a crack in a crystal, the neighborhood of which is markedly different from the exceptional subspace itself. However, until the work of Randall and Sundrum, it was not known that gravity too can be properly localized to a sub-spacetime; their proof that it can made such cosmological scenarios realistic. In addition, spacetime may well be stratified, containing strata of various dimensions so that we may be inhabiting a 3+1 dimensional stratum; such geometries occur naturally Calabi-Yau compactifications.

Also, end poverty.''

''In BDSM, the safeword is generally used so that the ''bottom'' can scream ''no, stop'', etc. as much as he/she wants without really meaning it, and still have a way of indicating a serious desire that the scene stops. Accordingly, in theory a safeword is usually a word that the person would not ordinarily say during sex, such as Rumba, Oklahoma, or rhubarb. Because in the midst of the intensity of a scene a bottom may not remember what the current safeword is, in practice commonly the words safeword or red are used as a safeword. They are often the default at many play parties, or respected as a safeword in addition to any negotiated safeword. A dungeon monitor would likely expect either of those words to be respected. Oprah's safeword is ''Cheezles''.

I did miss Bonos sagely insight on the Rolling Stones doco the other night...

he could've talked about how keef and ronnie played on that u2 b-side - silver and gold? something like that.

incidentally, bono and chris martin should do a charity version of dancing in the street for the 2012 london olympics. c'mon, it'd be the MOST HORRIBLE RECORD EVER. they should do it.

I think your onto something _v.

Somebody should do a doco on Bono soon except get everybody who hates him to be in it. ''Yeah...I always thought he was a cunt. Turns out I was right''.

Another awesome thread (semi-)ruined by miserable!

GOD DAMMIT.

it wasnt that good. you are overstating this threads value raven

Yeah it was crap- ok for you to ruin it.

WOAH!

it wasnt that good. you are overstating this threads value raven

This thread, she was the sweetest thing.

Vale, this thread.

But fake U2 want to discuss pokemons...

But where are real U2's pokemons?

not bad for an Irish cunt.

Wah-oh, he's here! http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/bono-sneaks-into-town-for-a-feed/story-e6frewz0-1225962389695

saw this article also

The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by forty Roman senators, self-styled the Liberatores, who, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, stabbed Julius Caesar to death in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March (March 15) 44 BCE. Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Senate. This declaration had resulted in several senators fearing that Caesar's ambition was to overthrow the Senate in favour of a tyranny. The ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators' civil war, the ascendancy of Caesar's adopted heir Octavian to the position of emperor, and the dissolution of the Republic leading to the Empire.

This building is beautiful, grand madness. I think actually the spirit of this country, the pioneering spirit of this country, is what it's going to take to win against this winnable war. We know that with this kind of political will and this kind of interest by the general public we do know that we can eradicate it. We need for both a vaccine and a cure, we need a scientific conceptual breakthrough of the order that wins Nobel Prizes. Because this virus mutates so fast, we just don't have any real leads for eradication. I think, generally people like myself, you know, we're good at raising the alarm, you know and calling the fire brigade. You know we're good at dramatising the situation and pointing out that this awful haemorrhaging of human life that doesn't have to be. By the way, that Gillard has a cracking set of jugs.

BONO IN GOOD HEALTH