“The Girl Who Snuck into the Rocket Factory”

• Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo writes: Her name is Lana Sator and she snuck into one of NPO Energomash factories outside of Moscow. Her photos are amazing, like sets straight out of Star Wars or Alien. Now the Russian government is harassing her. It was easy to get in. She just went there, jumped over the fence and [...]

Lunation: Art on The Moon

LUNATION Art on the Moon Observatory: 543 Union Street (at Nevins), Brooklyn, NY 11215 Observatory’s first group-curated show  •  January 7 – February 26, 2012 Opening Party: Saturday, January 7th, 7–10 PM, FREE Closing Party/Observatory’s 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser: Saturday, February 18th, 8 PM/$20 Show Viewing Hours: Thursday & Friday 3–6 PM, Saturday & Sunday 12–6 [...]

Nah, no summation of 2011, and who the Hell knows about 2012. It is Wednesday, January 4th, I am working, and that is enough.

Shaw at work by Alfred Eisenstaedt Ω

Galaxy Smash

• Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the hot gas in this dynamic system, and optical data (gold) from the Very Large Telescope [...]

So Long, Beautiful (now I wait for the hex)

• 1982, California, USA — Lunar Eclipse — Image by © Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS • HEXES before the Witching Hour EST. The contents had better go skyclad before me in a vision really, really soon. Or it will be just awful. Special bonus: Last week’s rejects! • • Ω

TRANSIT OF VENUS

• Entirely lifted from wired.com: Nearly 130 years ago today, the premier event in astrophysics involved watching a tiny dot slowly sail across the surface of the sun. That dot was our sister planet, Venus, and observing its transit as it passed directly between the Earth and sun was a momentous scientific undertaking. A transit of [...]

After the Storm, Samhain, the Harvest, the Feast, and the Zero Moon…

• …I want to claim a dark corner and light a single candle. Then wait. For the real dark to pass. † Amazing image brought to you by analogvisions: Ego’s Spectre Spectral Illumination by Ego Moore Inside Out Event Moore Theatre, Seattle, June 2009 Shot with a Holga 120CFN Fuji Velvia RVP100F Ω

Zero Moon, Earthshine

• Photo by Jeffrey Sullivan Thanks to Hubert Motley, Jr. Ω

A Reminder for Warpers

• Good morning. Many roads to travel and words to secure today. Will try to keep the warping to a minimum. Ω

Damien’s Soccer Game! 1-0! And WHICH Demonchilde Kicked the Winning Goal?!

THAT’S RIGHT, mofos. Edited, at the boy’s request. (He doesn’t want the world to know about his powers.) And Hexes NOW. Ω

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