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Another example of Russian home made creative design. We have seen a lot of cool mods of PC and Mac cases done with hi-tech thingies. Also I have seen the PC cases made from

precious metalls or with antique materials. And this PC case is the most cheap I think that can be. It's made of a paper shoe box. Take a look:

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Here is a computer mouse made of

stone by Russian designer Neko.

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Internet authorities of Cameroon have found that they are getting millions web requests daily as a result of people typing mistakes. People who type in a domain name sometimes miss a letter "o" and are geting ".cm" at the end of the domain instead of ".com". When you would multiply this to billions of .com requests daily you would understand how many requests land in Cameroon. So what

do you think they have done? They made one template for all non-existent ".cm" domains and now all such requests end at a "search engine" alike webpage. All the clicks on this page are redirected to a search results of a "Pay-Per-Click" search engine Overture. You can try yourself if you want. Just type in any famous domain name but make it ".cm" not ".com".

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After the new name for the next generation Windows was announced, people in Russian internet blogs started numerous discussion topics. The reason for those topics was a newsline submitted by an unknown author that “The word Vista means Hen or Cock” in Lithuanian language. At that time there

was no common opinion achieved regarding the matter. Just because Lithuania was the part of USSR, and it's only now a separate state, many people there know Russian and even use Russian as their native language. So there were a lot of such rumors comming directly from them.

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Just visit Yahoo.com and try to press on the vower sign "!" on their logo. Be sure your

sound and flash is turned on. You'll here some nice "Yahoo" singing. Have a good weekend!

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In St.Petersburg for the first time in Russia a mass production of the information media carrier of a new format called "a thin disk" have started. A cult Petersburg producer and sound producer Andrey Tropillo has developed and has patented it. Producers of this know-how thinks that the new disk will protect authors from pirates. In July mass release of "thin disks " has been prepared by a factory "Fortmedia". As producers informed news agencies the

information carrier of new generation VCDHD (Versatile compact disc high density) is a thin single-layered disk of the special form and of a high flexibility. Thickness of the VCDHD is 0,6 mm what's twice less than of usual CD. It can be easily be bent and deformed without being afraid to damage record. Besides because of a special form of the edge, the surface of a disk is additionally protected from scratches and mechanical damages.

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