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"Borya, this is the internet. We can tell you to get lost here."
The BBC on Live Journal, a big player in the Russian protest movement. Interesting to read just how influential LJ has been so far. -
Life imitates SF
- Energy-efficient robot mules to be developed for military use.
- The Strugatsky brothers' 1972 SF novel Roadside Picnic inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, which then inspired the 2006 shooter video game 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl'. Recently the game has been played for real inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone (aka. The Zone of ( Read more... )
- Energy-efficient robot mules to be developed for military use.
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Six Billion Worlds
- Taiwan's roadside 'betelnut girls'; there's also an extensive and informative Flickr photoset.
- How life in a UK immigrant detention centre affects children.
- The bizarre photographic challenges Russians set each other.
- Brought to you without comment: 20 examples of male douchebags.
- Taiwan's roadside 'betelnut girls'; there's also an extensive and informative Flickr photoset.
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Life imitates SF
- Life predates Waterworld: Oil Rocks, the Soviet city built in the 1950s in the middle of the Caspian Sea. At the moment this seems to be the only webpage on the internet that has a significant number of photos of it. (Edit: Window to Baku here, Artificial Owl here and a Wiki paragraph here).
- Another abandoned Russian town, this one invaded by ( Read more... )
- Life predates Waterworld: Oil Rocks, the Soviet city built in the 1950s in the middle of the Caspian Sea. At the moment this seems to be the only webpage on the internet that has a significant number of photos of it. (Edit: Window to Baku here, Artificial Owl here and a Wiki paragraph here).
