toktan.org
No doomsday
No.
Starts: Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 11:00 PM
Finishes: Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 11:00 PM
Location: World
December 19, 2012 by David Stuart
As many know, the upcoming completion of the 13th bak’tun on December 21 is represented in the Maya Long Count as 13.0.0.0.0. It’s an important day in the Maya calendar, to be sure, but not the End of Times of course. The Maya never once said anything of the kind. Nor is the approaching day even the end of the bak’tun cycle, as it has often been described — that idea comes from an old and outdated conceptualization of Maya time. ...
December 17, 2012 The Mercury Prize-winning band plays angular, poetic music that takes unexpected turns, shifting gears when you least expect it. Seeing Alt-J live in the NPR Music offices reveals a few of its mysteries, making a group that can be difficult on first listen a bit easier to digest.
Mark "E" Oliver Everett is at it again. His ever changing rock outfit Eels will release their latest record Wonderful, Glorious early next year but you can hear their single "New Alphabet" right now.
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away in San Diego, the Ravi Shankar Foundation announced on Tuesday. He was 92.
The legendary musician and composer had suffered from upper-respiratory and heart issues over the past year and underwent heart-valve replacement surgery last Thursday. Though the surgery was successful, recovery proved too difficult for musician, the foundation said in a press release.
He is survived by his wife Sukanya; daughter Norah Jones; daughter Anoushka Shankar Wright and husband Joe Wright; 3 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.
Ms. Sukanya and Ms. Wright were at his side when he passed away.
It's hard to keep track of new artists these days. So we asked our colleagues around the country to recommend recent discoveries from their communities. Download 10 songs that helped put these musicians on the map in 2012.
?
'Headhunter' video now online!
At this past weekend's Independent Label Market, I was chuffed to pick up at the PIAS stall their recent reissue of Front 242's Front By Front, which of course features One Of The Greatest Songs Of All Time, 'Headhunter'. Even better, they've just made public the video for the track, by the great Anton Corbijn. Rumour has it that the director misheard the track title as 'egghunter', which explains the grainy footage of a fruity lady being chased around wearing an egg on her head, eggs falling, and so on. For more on PIAS Recordings 30 year anniversary and their vinyl reissues, please visit their website.
If you search “Maya calendar” on Google you will see images of the Aztec calendar stone. The reason why this non-Maya monument has become the symbol for the Maya “end date” is understandable only from taking a look at the history of the 2012-phenomenon. As Whitesides and Hoopes writes, it was the Mayanist Michael Coe (1966) who related the 13 baktun “cycle” with that of the Aztec 5 Suns. This, in combination with Goodman’s (1897) earlier assertion that the Long Count was cyclical and the cycles of creations in Postclassic Maya sources like Popol Vuh, have laid the foundation for a belief, both among academics and 2012ers, that the Late Formative and Classic period Long Count calendar will end at 13 baktun and restart again. However, ...
The Seattle duo literally shakes the dust off the ceiling tiles in this performance at the NPR Music offices. In the span of about 15 minutes, the pair works through a moving message song ("Same Love"), a hilarious goof-off ("Thrift Shop") and a rousingly inspirational closer ("Can't Hold Us").
A brief take on the 2012 business, recorded for The Academic Minute, a podcast from WAMC radio distributed on a number of college and NPR stations here in the US.
Of course the idea that no actual 2012 prophecy exists gets very little widespread distribution in the media. It hasn’t a chance against the shameless doom-and-gloom, junk-science narratives of The History Channel or, even worse now, The National Geographic Channel.
Offizielle Webseite: brand eins Online - Das Wirtschaftsmagazin
Wasser ist eine knappe Ressource, die wir sparen müssen - das ist für viele eine Pflicht. Aber sie machen es sich zu einfach.
- Dieser Artikel über die globale Wasserknappheit beginnt nicht mit alarmierenden Zahlen, nicht mit der Beschreibung skelettierter Kuhkadaver auf verdorrtem Land und nicht mit dem apokalyptischen Szenario drohender Kriege um die letzten Trinkwasserreserven. Auch die Meldung, dass der Schauspieler Leonardo DiCaprio sich aus Sorge um die weltweiten Wasserreserven nur noch sehr selten duscht, soll hier nicht näher erörtert werden.
...
673 days ago, I wrote about the Friendika network as it was back then afterwards I monitored the network growth and made regular plots, until approx a year ago the network got to big for the script I had written in the 1st shot. ...
Ein für Deutschland geplantes Leistungsschutzrecht würde die Suche im Internet stark einschränken. Willst Du das? Misch' Dich ein.
Today, RevolverMag.com brings you the exclusive stream of the 20th Anniversary Special Edition of Rage Against the Machine XX, which will be released tomorrow, November 27, by Legacy Recordings. You can hear all 24 songs — including remastered tracks, demos and live versions — via the Soundcloud player below.
The new release commemorates the 20th anniversary of the band’s self-titled 1992 debut album. ...
Wainwright does the opposite of sugarcoating: She roughs up life's smooth spots, then digs her fingertips into the cracks that form. Watch her perform three songs from her new album, Come Home to Mama, in the NPR Music offices.
Your favourite label pays tribute to their favourite label! Exile On Mainstream is proud to present a book, born from a fan effort to our favourite label on earth: Constellation Records out of Montreal, Canada. In a world where D.I.Y. ethics and a complete independent approach are a rare treat and a counterbalance to that cruel and shallow money tr...
