Alexander Yankov

An interesting animation from the late 80s.

A blog documenting the myriad failures of humanity in photographic form.

Recently jaanix introduced an automated RSS feed submitted from ycombinator. Depending on you preferences this feed might be taking up a significant chunk of you radar. For me, about 75% of the top stories come from ycombinator/rss with the tag more...

The legendary Complexspiral CSS demo.

For fans of Bulgakov (May 15, 1891 - March 10, 1940), an acclaimed Soviet novelist and playwright. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita, which the New York Times Book Review called one of the greatest more...

The Moscow metro is well known for the elaborate unique designs of its stations. Metrowalks photographed all the stations on all the lines of the Moscow metro.

A team of researchers from Cornell and Microsoft have created a BitTorrent plugin called Cubit that hopes to eliminate the need for big index sites like The Pirate Bay. The future of torrent search may soon be truly decentralized.

"It would be dishonest of me to remain silent after hearing the speech Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23 at the Cuban American National Foundation created by Ronald Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did McCain’s more...

Watch the 1988 Soviet adaptation of Bulgakov's classic satire with English subtitles.

Read it and feel good.

Irrationalism, pseudoscience, and quackery have become extremely popular in recent years. Unsupported and illogical claims are heard and seen everywhere in tabloid magazines, on television, etc. Ancient philosophies and "sciences" are experiencing a renaissance, often advocating ideas that, more...

Believe it or not (might not be hard to believe for those of you who are critical of our visa policies or ever applied for one yourself), models coming to work in the U.S. compete with high-tech workers for the more...

Your new dream summer job.

“Details of China’s earthquake are being spread quickly, and the official response has so far been unusually open.”