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, 2011

[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, 2011

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

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, 2011

Cartoons 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, 2011

Cartoons 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, 2011

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/ )

Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

A 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, 2011

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.

How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

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.