“Astronomers are inviting members of the public to help them make major new discoveries by taking part in a census of one million galaxies.

Visitors to www.galaxyzoo.org will get to see stunning images of galaxies, most of which have never been viewed by human eyes before. By sorting these images into “spiral galaxies” (like our own Milky Way) or “elliptical galaxies”, visitors will help astronomers to understand the structure of the universe. The new digital images were taken using the robotic Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope in New Mexico.”

“At the occasion of the Berlin Film festival (“Berlinale”) this year, 5 short clips (around 45 seconds each) were prepared at the request of the Commission with extracts from films supported by the EU’s MEDIA programme (all of which received numerous international awards). The clips were meant to promote the launch of the EU’s new MEDIA programme 2007-2013, which fosters the circulation of successful films in other EU countries and worldwide.”

Amour 2 – Deutsch
Amour 2 – Englisch
(possibly NSFW)

“Anthropologists visit the temple sites,” Mr. Barrios says, “and read the stelas and inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination…Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. The indigenous have the calendars, and know how to accurately interpret it, not others.”

The World Will Not End
The Mayan Calendar: Mystic Key to a New World

Mayan Calendar
New Revelations and the Next Nine Years

“Elfwood’s mission is to provide a place for amateurs from all over the world to share, teach, and inspire a new generation of dreams.”

“On this, 23rd July, Robert Anton Wilson Day 2004, the 31st anniversary of Dr Wilson’s famed possible telepathic communication with extraterrestrials from the Sirius star-system; or of having his mind fiddled with by the Pookah, the Giant White Rabbit from County Kerry, Ireland, also known as the much belovèd Harvey; or contact with an unknown part of his mind or the Universal Mind of the Universal Being; or contact with his Holy Guardian Angel, or Agathodæmon, Superego, Ally or Id; or a meeting with his Muse; or descent or ascent into High Madness, Illumination, Gnosis; or what you will – as recounted in his much-loved autobiography Cosmic Trigger (Volume One), The Frogweb presents a shrine to what may yet prove to have been the most influential ‘alternative culture’ book of the last 100 years, the book that spawned a thousand others, and opened many thousands of minds, leaving them on a tightrope between the abyss of madness and the peak of gnosis: The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and the amazing theatrical production to which it gave birth.”

“RealMagick is a resource and library dedicated to fostering research and sharing of knowledge in areas deemed beyond the purview of standard science: i.e. Wicca, Paganism, General Religion, Philosophy, Occult, Parapsychology, and the Paranormal. RealMagick presents recent and historical documents and research, basic and advanced articles and products through an easy-to-use, highly cross-referenced database.”

“Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit. Das erfährt derzeit auch Roger Martin Buergel, der einen Riesenhaufen Kunst, 1001 Chinesen und ein Reisfeld nach Kassel geholt hat und den Kram jetzt erklären muß, weil er leichtfertig “Dialog mit den Besuchern” in sein Ausstellungskonzept geschrieben hat. Keine leichte Aufgabe, nicht einmal für einen kampferprobten Diskursritter wie Buergel.

Um den Kurator der documenta 12 ein wenig zu entlasten, haben wir viele seiner brisanten Einlassungen (“ein Möglichkeitsraum, der nach Akteuren sucht”) gesammelt und katalogisiert. Den Buergelschen Zitatenschatz vom “weichen Raum”, “Migration der Form” und anderes Schwerschwadronatentum haben wir dann mit renommiertem Kunstfeuilleton aufgefüllt und kräftig durchgeschüttelt. In den EXOT-Laboratorien haben Wissenschaftler daraus die völlig neuartige “Buergelmaschine” kreiert.

Mit “Buergelmaschine” lässt sich im Handumdrehen jegliche Kunst erklären. Ohne lästige Wartezeiten und ohne unangenehmes Hochschulstudium generiert “Buergelmaschine” eine passgenaue Analyse jeden Kunstwerks. Leicht, verständlich und in gerechter Sprache.”

Buergelmaschine sagt über dieses Bild:

Wider alle Erwartungen erlaubt Erion, die in Gewaltakte verstrickten Protagonisten zu konterkarieren und die europäischen Mittelschichten als Abnicken offensichtlicher Unsinnigkeiten aufeinander zu beziehen. Kontext der an Martin Heideggers Programm der Destruktion der Metaphysik anschließenden Arbeit “Mythropolis” ist der Versuch der Moderne.

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“Due in part to its widespread use in industry, Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is involved in many environmental incidents each year. While most are unavoidable given current technology, there can be little doubt that the presence of DHMO in each significantly increases the negative impact to the environment.”