“Keeping Score is a project of the San Francisco Symphony designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds. The goal: use media in its most public and accessible forms to show that classical music can speak to everyone and instill a lifelong love of music.”

Beethoven – Erioca
Stravinsky – Le sacre du printemps

“My approach in “Carmen of the Spheres” is to try to literally hear the planets as they orbit the sun. Obviously 365.25 days is a good deal slower than the average sound wave!! However there is a wonderful principle in acoustics, at the very least for humans, and that is that when you double the speed of the wave, the “flavour” of the pitch remains the same. The implications of this are obvious for things like “octaves” – an F# is an F# is an F#.”

“Welcome to Sketchfu, where you can draw and share.”

Shamed alleged “star” Paris Hilton will be executed by lethal injection, a court has ruled.

The 26-year-old apologised for her behaviour during the hearing, saying: “I’m sorry and I did not do it on purpose.” However, in a move that both stunned and delighted even the prosecution, Judge Michael Sauer sentenced Ms Hilton to death by lethal injection, in strict adherence to California’s controversial ‘3 strikes and you’re out’ rule.
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Amnesty International refused to condemn the decision of the court, explaining that the case was “an exception”.”

“The MIDI sequencer intelligently produced melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice. Guided by inputs based on hamster movements, Markov chains were used to perform such beat and note computations. In culmination, 3 simultaneous voices were produced spanning 3 octaves and 3 rhythmic tiers. Each voice was controlled by two hamsters: one that was responsible for adjusting the rhythmic qualities of the melody and another that modified the note sequence.”

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“By 2012, according to the Law of Time, we must be ready for this shift, the unparalleled transition into the next stage of our evolution, the noosphere. This signifies the attainment of a unified field of planetary consciousness.”

Eine wissensbringende Übersicht aller relevanten Kandidaten der Präsidentenwahl 2008 in Amerikanien.

“Drawn! site is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources.

Albert Einstein said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources,” but what the hell did he know anyway?”

Klick Murphy:

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“Dear Visitor,
This domain has been killed.
Sincerely,
The Yes Men“

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“The Church of the SubGenius is preparing for the end of the world (again), when the Pleasure Saucers of the Sex Goddesses will arrive at the designated landing site on X-Day – Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 7:00 AM! We’ll be gathering once again at the designated landing site at Brushwood in Sherman, New York, beginning on Wednesday, July 4th…and continuing for ETERNITY! We’ll be celebrating the end of the world with one big NON-STOP PARTY!”

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