Culture

http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/861089.html

http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/861089.html The shot was taken in 1839, at Boulevard du Temple, Paris. Exposure time is about 10 mins. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography

http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html “These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place” .

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4405/ottenki-serogo.9d/0_65c00_8988031e_orig.jpg (this is biker season opening in Moscow, 2011 ) , other photos are here http://ottenki-serogo.livejournal.com/217344.html

http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.

http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12763.html A review of three Lord of The Ring movies from someone who never read Tolkin’s books before. Hllarios, read it of you have 30 minutes to spare. Taken from AVVA ( http://avva.livejournal.com/ )

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/13/some-perspective-on-the-japan-earthquake A blog post offering some perspective about Japans’ preparation and planning for natural disasters

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/ Notes about facebook internal PM process (release, builds, QA, deployments, management, etc) … Interesting that they manage to do their work like a small startup team, even thought they are #1 site on the Net and have ~ 2K employees.