Mar 21
About a third into this video of Russian kids doing their usual thing—climbing onto buildings, towers, and bridges with absolute disregard to their own life—I had to stop. I’ve seen things like this before, but this was too much.
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Mar 02
According to English Russia, a Russian guy designed this car using a 3D modeling software. Then he and his friends got a Nissan Maxima "as a source for some parts" and built it. Looks like an all-terrain batmobile to me.
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Feb 12
At this point, we’ve all seen the insane Russian dudes who dangle off of tall things
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Jan 17
I’ve seen plenty of Russian kids risking their lives walking on top of buildings or hanging from bridges, cranes and buildings. I get nervous just by looking at the photos, but this video compilation actually raised my blood pressure— I felt physically dizzy half-way through it.
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Dec 11
This is basically the least worst thing that can happen with Russian nuclear bombs! For the past twenty years, the Russians have been turning 500 tons of uranium from decommissioned nuclear weapons into nuclear fuel for the United States. It’s called the Megatons to Megawatts program. The last shipment from that 1993 deal arrived at a U.S. storage facility Tuesday, according to reporter Geoff Brumfiel of NPR’s Morning Edition.
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Sep 29
At first glance this looks like a giant tank that must be the work of the military industrial complex. Well, it is a camera on some tank treads, but it isn’t tank-sized. It is a one-of-a-kind object called the Soviet Rumble PHU x Z*E*R*O.
It is basically a retro camera with a companion dock. The camera is fully functional Russian FED-5 35mm, and can be undocked to snap photos. As art goes, this is a pretty clever project. It is completely handmade from recycled objects. It makes me wish we had real tanks that looked like this.
It’s selling for $395(USD) over at the Four Corner Store.
[via Damn Geeky]
Sep 09
When Tsar Peter the Great founded the former Russian capital city of Saint Petersburg more than 300 years ago, he intended it to provide a "window on the Baltic." Turns out, that window was more of a screen door. To protect itself, the city built a dam that took almost 300 years and $3.85 billion to complete.
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Apr 09
Ah – another day, another video game digital platform hacked. This time, the platform that has been hacked is Ubisoft’s uPlay which has allowed hackers to access to the company’s complete line-up of PC games as well as titles that have yet to be released.
A Russian gaming forum shared the details of the newly discovered exploit which uses a tool that tricks Ubisoft’s uPlay platform into recognizing the user as a member who is authorized to play games they don’t own. This has resulted hackers to download copies of the yet-to-be-released Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon for free and without DRM. Because of this exploit, pirated copies of the game have been making their way to numerous Bittorrent tracking websites as well as video walkthroughs have been popping up on YouTube and other streaming-video sites. (more…)
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Mar 22
Twitter archive service expands into 12 more languages, includes Chinese, Russian and Japanese
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Twitter users looking to permanently house their missives in Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and eight other languages have now been given the go-ahead. This third language expansion focuses on the east, although it does add Italian, Turkish and Danish support too. In short, it’s another excuse to celebrate the microblogging network’s seventh compleanno.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Via: Techcrunch
Source: Twitter
Feb 15
The European Meteosat-10 satellite captured the precise moment as the meteor entered Russian airspace over Chelyabinsk at 33,000mph. Here you can clearly see its vapor trail. [Meteosat] More »
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