Archive for the 'culture' Category
[RUS] ir_ingr: Первые в истории человечества люди, запечатлённые на фотографии | The first-ever photograph of a pesron [by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre]
Friday, May 6th, 2011The 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
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they’re from the Future | Crack Two
Friday, May 6th, 2011“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place” .
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
(this is biker season opening in Moscow, 2011 ) , other photos are here http://ottenki-serogo.livejournal.com/217344.html
ir_ingr: Жизнь в Афгане в комиксах. Занятно. На английском. | Live in Afghanistan, Cartoons [in Eng]
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
ir_ingr: Жизнь в Афгане в комиксах. Занятно. На английском. | Live in Afghanistan, Cartoons [in Eng]
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
The Lord of the Rings – a review by a Tolkien-virgin
Thursday, April 21st, 2011A 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/ )
Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011A blog post offering some perspective about Japans’ preparation and planning for natural disasters
How We Lost the War We Won: Rolling Stone’s 2008 Journey Into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan | Rolling Stone Politics
Friday, March 4th, 2011a 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.
How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Notes 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.