Суровая русская реальность

Суровая русская реальность: даже медведи могут дать 3.14здюлей и угнать крутой джип прямо из не густо населеного центра сибири!

На более серьёзной ноте - “Добро пожаловать в дружественную Москву… блять!”

Below are two interesting research results. What confuses me is this:

• Finland and Denmark are in Top5 suicide nations in Europe
• Finland and Denmark are in the same time in Top2 of happiest nations on earth

So the questions are:

• does this mean they commit suicide in the most happiest ways and moods, hence die as most happiest people?
• or does this mean Finnish and Danish people are very good at deceiving, and while convincing the rest they are the most happy nations, they produce suicide to evade the “unaccomplished” and falsely presented happiness?
• or does this mean that, statistics are as good as their interpretation and that just arranging figures in a way that makes sense doesn’t make sense at all in a broader perspective, i.e. is it plausible that separately taken statistics make pretty good sense, but when put together under scrutiny they tend to clash and contradict each other and that a more systemic analysis is required over the data?
• and on top, given one research measured happiest living people, how would someone measure people of which nation die most happy? (more as a thought exercise)

Other interesting facts:

• Cyprus, even though in EU for quite few years, is placed for unknown reasons (political or geographical ones?!) in Asia region
• Hungary is consistent - leads the suicide group and occupies place 103 in the happiest nations

As a fun note on the statistics, as one physics professor at PUB.ro used to say during our first year:
“Statistics is like this: if you put your head into the freezer at -50′ celsius and your butt into the oven at 124′ celsius, statistically on average you feel just comfortably perfect”

Enjoy the readings:

The World’s Happiest Countries

Prevention of suicide and attempted suicide in Denmark

ălăvăn =))

Painful parkour/freeruning

Sukhishvili vs Lord of the Dance

Few days back we went to Georgia’s National Dance Ensemble “Sukhishvili” in Limassol. It was an amazing show. Being a wannabe-professional dancer at my fragile ages of 6 till 12, I can tell you that these guys deserver lots of respect.

From my point of view, they are comparable with Lord of the Dance (I liked Lord of the Dance back in 2001 in Bucharest at Sala Palatului when Flatley was still in the show, however the recent one in 2009 in Larnaca could be better).

I can say somewhere Sukhishvili are even better. The complexity of the moves, the high tempo (along 90% of the show) of around 200 BPMs, the tricks with knives and spade-fights at this tempo, the crazy pirouettes on reversed toes - this is just amazing, speechless…

Here are some nice mixes of their work:

More here and here

Wish my Moldova had the same thoughtful management towards the great talents in culture (which they seem to throw to garbage ). Why ensemble “Joc” is not getting proper funding having such talents as can be seen below.

Enjoy ensemble “Joc":

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The Pula Fashion

Desi un pic radicali sau directi… imi plac! Imi plac ideile, imi place muzica aleasa, imi place ce si cum filmeaza…

Enjoy!

“Creditul pentru orice… PROST!”

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“(B)Ani de Liceu”

http://gallery.maxim.ro/protest/bani_de_liceu_01.swf

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“Salvati zidurile!”

http://www.thepulafashion.com/revolutie.swf
http://www.thepulafashion.com/index_ziduri.html

Liquid Mountaineering

via Lena

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Alimentara comunistă: mic ghid turistic (2)

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Meet Will Urbina

One of his interesting techno-design works:

I want to present few nice sites which might be interesting for you. At least I enjoyed finding them out and getting information about them.

Welcome to the world of Scambaiting - 419eater.com

From wiki: “419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from “419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers. The 419 Eater forum has over 24,000 registered accounts.”

The people on this forum are taking it as a real-life role-playing-game. They have something like medals on how many fake-banks they “crashed", flags of countries where they “smashed” a scammer, etc.

If you like this kind of long and ad-hoc scenario games, this is the place to try. If not, even just simply browsing the forum is a fun . BTW, on this site you can find almost any phrase which you would find in the emails from the Spam/Junk folder.

Related to this type of activity is the Project Honeypot. More on computer-related honeypots.

Like surfing? What about Couch-Surfing?

From wiki: “The CouchSurfing Project is the largest hospitality exchange network, with over 1.75 million members in 237 countries and territories.[1] According to Alexa it is currently the most visited hospitality service on the Internet, averaging around 40 million daily page views July-December 2009″

Interested? CouchSurfing FAQ will get you started - prepare your backpacks!

PS: though CouchSurfing might be fun, free and exciting, NEVER forget the common-sense for personal privacy and security, just to avoid so called (and over-hyped) CouchSurfing horror stories

(thanks to Veronica to throw some like on existence of such project)

Quotes of the days:

“I hate ’smart’ under-tested automated software written by stupid over-self-estimated wannabes”

“At present there are broadly two large categories of goods on our markets: those made in one Asian 1-billion-nation country which have N-to-1 ratio of incorporated features (80-ni-hao-in-1 card readers, 999-in-1 tetris games, etc.) AND those made/designed in another Asian 1-billion-nation country which are simply plug-n-play and EVERYTHING works out-of-the-box-sir“

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Nice Pepsi ads:

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Well, Samy is my hero is cool… but Pasha is my hero is hotter now

Yes you can Pasha (aka Pavel Turcu, aka Pavel Turkish )!

“Top views Moldova Eurovision 2010 on YouTube”

“Pavel Turcu - Hitler scene remix”

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-Da cum te numesti ?
-Ei cum ma numesc, Vanya
-Pai Vanya si mai cum ?
-Cum si mai cum ? Ap’ Vanya

-Da cel care ti-a dat tigarile e roman sau din Republica Moldova?
-Ti-am spus ca-i moldovan !

Costica, dormi?

RUPEEEEEEEEE!

Everything is OK - Motivational, thoughtful, courageous…

The Love Police - The Revolution is NOW

Mr Freeman - (De)Motivational, rhetorical, thoughtful…

UPDATE: 20100110

С новым годом?

“Плодитесь, коровы, жизнь коротка” (&#1089 ГГМ

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Balet, box si lupte greco-romane… pe gheata

“Astazi” (batalie pe gheata campionatul Kontinental Hockey League 2010 in Chekhov):

“Ieri": (batalie pe gheata Campionatul Mondial 1987 in Cehoslovacia)

Hockey-ul nu s-a schimbat mult la capitolul “dorinta si sete de lupta pana la sange” =))

Cei mai fierbinti hockeyisti par a fi rusii si canadienii