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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.

Recently, web design studio, ArtLebedev, known as creator of Optimus Keyboard, posted a provocative picture about their (now former) client, Nokia:

Translation from Russian: “Good bye, Nokia!” and underline: “Lebedev Studio has canceled the contract with Nokia. Fucking got tired.” Continue reading →

The truck was modified especially for the movie, named “Dalnoboischiki” (Truck Drivers) which is currently being produced in Moscow.
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I have a friend in Intel who happens to know about Pentium processor design roadmap. According to him, Intel is currently working on 256-core CPU and it suppose to be ready by 2010.

We’ve seen dual core CPU, now, just imagine how fast 256-core CPU would be. Amazing.

More insider news from Intel will be posted later…

A few days ago Estonian Government decided to dismantle the memorial also known as “The Memorial of Soldier-Liberator”, dedicated to soviet soldiers, who died liberating Estonia from Nazi troops in 1944.

This action is a part of almost 15-year efforts of Estonian government to re-write the history. They already opened memorials dedicated to memory of Nazi SS soldiers, they allowed parades of former SS troopers, at the same time they have banned Soviet symbols treating USSR far worse than Nazi Germany.

What’s going on there, April 26 2007?

Thousands of protesters are on the streets of Tallinn, Estonian capital city. Police forced them off the memorial square with water, gas, grenades and brute force. There are injured people.

Witness says: “I was there. I have no words to describe what I felt, there are no such words. I was able to capture some of the events on my mobile phone, will upload it sometime, but now I can tell only one thing: don’t believe disinformation which will be in tomorrow’s mass media. They will say tomorrow that evil mob attacked police forcing them to defend. I tell you this: people on the square held until last moment. Nobody attacked the police. Everybody just stayed there and shouted slogans. Then police attacked. First they used some gas, then shot the crowd with grenades with tear-gas, then - storm grenades with light effects. Half of the crowd was women.”

Euronews are showing nothing as of now. Like it is not happening.

I’ll update the story with pictures and video from the streets of Tallinn. Continue reading →