Russ-cyberspace

This time I’d like to draw your attention to the project under LJ account http://russ-cyberspace.livejournal.com/ (along with related websites) — this is the joint effort of several academic groups from Western universities who routinely study our beloved Russian Internet commonly known as Runet.

New announcement in the pointed journal tells us about the fresh thematic project from the Norwegian University of Bergen — which is intriguingly called “The Future of Russian”. They are nowadays launching some researches about Runet realms such as a “study of the linguistic and cultural features of the community formed on the website bash.org.ru”, which is being prepared by a former Lenta.ru employee.

Quote

So the unwritten rules of the Internet weren’t built in a day, and nobody could shake them so far. The first rule goes: ‘This is the Internet, baby. Somebody can say fuck off to you’.

(Anna Vrazhina in Lenta.ru)

Дилə Нигъмəтуллина - Хатын-кыз бәхете

See this great piece of Tatar folk-pop music

Two particular categories I arranged

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aerial_photographs_of_Russia

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Runet

I am not the sole one to work on them, but contributed a lot (e. g. created)

A couple of our new projects

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/gazprom/sakhalin2-site/
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/gazprom/site/

and earlier

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/svo/

(see "Process" pages also!)

On lags (what's on)

Unfortunately, I haven't posted to this blog for long time, though I have intentions and some ideas. But they're not fullfilled by now due to some personal affairs and also due to "famous Russian laziness".

But that doesn't mean I'm out! I greatly hope I will soon have time to fulfill my ideas to post here. E.g. I have a lot of unuploaded photos of Russia, and there are new ones upcoming, but so far I haven't arranged them even in my Russian blog, despite going to do this long ago! So, one day I'll do this, will I?

But just for now I can only give an indistinct link to my Youtube page with 2 Russian railway videos of poor quality: http://www.youtube.com/user/ssrublev

Also, you always can check my contributions to Wikimedia Commons as well as to general Wikipedia. As well as to here, also. Also a bit here... looking forward to post here more!

See this particular spectacular masterpiece

New photos of Russia

I have updated my photo gallery with some new albums:

Onguday and its surroundings in the Altay Republic
Barnaul city
Novosibirsk city
Omsk city (uploaded using Mandriva Linux)

more albums to follow soon

Music guide

Do you like Abakus or Shpongle? Do you like music at all?

I have just discovered 3 albums, they all seem to be the ABSOLUTE-MUST-HAVES, so here go the names

M-Seven - Activate (2005)
Index ID - Odyssee (2007)
Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life (2008)

Astonishlingly amazing! Embarassingly excellent! Fairly fabulous & Inexpressibly idyllic!

Go get it right away, don’t even try to miss it!

Studio’s 13th birthday

That is how we’ve spent last Friday night: photos, video

Wikinews are finally indexed by Google News!

Do students in Western universities treat children of rich Russian corrupt officlals (or thief businessmen), who also study there, as morons (who they usually are)?

A Japanese video showing Japanese children makes me suspect that they will begin to kill each other shortly.

That is because of overuse of theme of violence in Japanese culture.

Mass media

I have now to say that many English language Western mass media such as CNN of FoxNews are extremely biased in terms of portraying recent Georgia / South Ossetia conflict (and most likely moreover). The notorious FoxNews incident with the girl called Amanda (link for those not familiar) confirms that: some idols of Western Democratic culture such as "freedom of speech" are quite easily ignored when some bodies such as American Government need that. I have to state that CNN purportedly erroneusly represented the warfare as Russian aggression whereas there was no actual Russian initial aggression in that case.

Russian mass media often are also biased, but that is not the subject of this post.

SLEEPING HIPPIES MUSEUM

Dm. Hajduk, the Ukrainian-Russian storyteller, tests out his popular "rastaman tales" in English, see here: http://ganja-jungle.livejournal.com/75752.html

Who's here?

As a matter of goodwill, I'd be very happy if someone comments on this entry so I can see if anyone reads this (that doesn't mean I will stop writing if no one comments, I just want to, say, "measure").

Currently I do not promote this blog in conventional ways, but I keep it to have a place to write English language posts: there are no regular readers, but there do are occasional readers.

I believe any content in the Internet may be useful: if not immediately, then sometimes. True practice confirmed this so many times before.

In IE7 Javascript on Home button is disabled — that's totally gay

Pages that link to Hippie

Homepage tweak contd

NOT ONLY When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)

BUT ALSO

javascript:location.href="..";

means upper level

you can also add such "buttons" as links on the link panel

this also deals with "?=" parameter "style=mine" in LiveJournal with considering "#"'s and other "?='"s

Russian Wikipedia "a top internet community"

I have written just now

Homepage tweak

When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)