more content in German | mehr Inhalt auf deutsch- Phantastic photos from the LHC (via Bad Astronomy)
- Not the end of the world: LHC is safe! (German)
- Atheist sees nothing on a piece of toast!
- What is a good righteous person? And how about Jesus? (via Friendly Atheist)
- 54 Outrageous Ads Perfectly Put In Scene! (part 3), the other parts are interesting too.
Guided by elemental powers?
That’s nonsense this way, of course – just because your answers to 15 personality test questions tend more in this or that direction doesn’t mean you’re “guided” by fire, water, earth, or air; the test’s author just packed various character traits into four groups and strikingly associated them with these four antique elements.
But of course such small tests like this one, “Which elemental powers guide you?” (German) (via Nadine), are not to be taken too seriously, they’re rather little pastimes – and occasionally a welcome blog summer slump filler.
So let’s mix my results
Fire : 20 %
Water : 13 %
Air : 47 %
Earth : 20 %
together, and we get a hot-air balloon jettisoning earth which then falls into water. Or something like that. At least you can say that a hot-air balloon (though not the characters of the people riding it) is guided by air (wind)…
And if that isn’t enough for you, you can get your personal horosope in this post. 
Your personal horoscope
Even though this post only got a loose connection to my Cimddology series, it’s still a satire…
Unfortunately, the completion of our ung unserer Astro-Cimddology Secundoscope announced in May will be delayed a little (until about the next total solar eclipse in Germany), therefore we offer here your personal horoscope, generated according to the most latest knowledge – completely without costs, without registration, without obligations, without sense!
So just pick the appropriate options – yes, you’ve noticed correctly, we also have a sex option, you won’t find that in newspaper horoscopes!!
(Way too late “other” has been added to the options.)
(If you like mathematical riddles, you may try to find the rules for how which piece of text is selected… Hint: There are 6 horoscopes, 4 elements, 8 colors, 4 animals, 6 plants, 5+6 character traits, 9 recommendations (for existing days).)
Photo: zager/sxc
8 8 8 ∞ 8 8 8
No, I’m not writing about the Olympics in Beijing and their opening ceremony which will start today at 8:08pm local time = 12:08 UTC1; I just wanted to mention that by chance there are exactly 8 marriages planned at Pfaffenhofen’s civil registry today.2
A wedding date that’s probably harder to forget than others… local couples probably won’t think much about the Asian superstition that the number 8 means luck and wealth. (Hopefully. 
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Just a little pity for the couples that they have to take the ramp at the back of the town hall because the proper front entrance is still inaccessible due to the construction works – my photo from this Sunday shows the ground at the front.
Photo: Paul Retherford – Fotolia.com
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