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Small car vs. cannon. Cannon wins?

What is Moimart?

Moimart is a web tool and social network site for conscious buyers and efficient sellers. It helps buyers to get the best price, bigger coupons, rebates and discounts on the things they want. It also helps sellers to advertise their goods very efficiently.

Moimart’s mission

To provide buyers and sellers with mobile commerce platform which eliminates need in paper ads/coupons and helps to preserve trees on Earth.

This is how Google (iGoogle page) header looks like around 3.14 AM:

I’ve made a screen shot a bit later, at 3:16 AM:

Interesting…

Google keeps making fun of usual things. It seems like the big corporation is having human nature, I guess.

About two years ago it just happened that one arrow accurately landed into another one; distance of shooting was 30 yards. I wasn’t trying to do this thing. Pure luck.

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“Mac” sounds the same in Russian as “poppy”.

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Every hour in this clock is represented by three nines. Care to calculate?

Back in 1984, Russian Military Academy research group presented experimental working prototype of military laser pistol.

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48th International Mathematical Olympiad just announced results. Konstantin Matveev (Russia) is on the top with 37 points, Peter Scholze (Germany) is on second with 36 points and Caili Shen (China) takes third place with 36 points.

One thing looks odd. Problems on this Olympiad were presented to contestants on 40 languages, except Russian. Coincidence? Error? Conspiracy? Continue reading →

One of the most expensive cities on Earth has lots of issues with traffic. Moscow is not ready to digest so many cars. Even if you are a multi-millionaire (like these two fellas on Lamborghini), your money cannot buy good roads and clear streets.

If you take a look at license plates (o999 AH 99 and x777 AA 77), these easy-to-read combinations cost a lot of money; probably, the right one has higher price.