Say what one will about Myspace, Friendster, or even Xanga, but they never tried to become profitable by getting rid of and driving away the very people who kept them up and running.

Or, to put it in the way Russian-speakers would appreciate it, надо же умудриться так просрать.

( Seriously - это надо умудрится )

Though I have to point out that this bus stop is usually way busier than this on Fridays.

And that it would have been cuter without the transit study plug.

Two Pace employees recently got married and hopped onto Route 307 to get to the reception! Pace and RTA recently finished a Central Harlem Ave. Corridor Study, which lays the groundwork ( Read more... )

Back in Monday (very early Tuesday morning Moscow time), SUP, a company that owns Livejournal gave its users one hell of an unpleasant surprise ( Read more... )

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Over the past few days, I saw two articles dealing with how two African-American men responded to the ongoing controversy over the relationship between African-Americans and the police - and their place in the American society in general. And their perspectives couldn’t be more different.
( The story of a police officer who felt alienated from the community he grew up in and a man who felt alienated in the majority-white community where he spent his formative years )

This is something that has been on the backburner for way over a month. But since I have a rare free Monday, I decided to finally post it.

For the Westerners reading this, Livejournal Magazine is a feature unique to Livejournal Russia - a compilation of entries that Livejournal’s editorial team finds interesting. Back in Feb. 3, the Magazine posted ( Read more... )

Back in February, Dana Schwartz (a writer best known for
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So not long after I put up my last post, I got a notification that someone linked to it.

Curious, I followed the link - and it turned out to be a post about Tajik and Han communities in Tashkurgan, the capital of China's Tashikurgan Tajik Autonomous County. And the hot (and not so hot) Tajik girls dima-pashchenko saw there. Leaving aside the lusting over Tajik ( Read more... )

A recent look through my Twitter follower list reminded me of something I meant to follow up on months ago, while Chicago run-off elections were still going on ( Read more... )

Over the past few months, I've seen something interesting happening on Livejournal ( Read more... )