Georgia Digging a Tunnel to Afghanistan?

Another Example of Georgian-American kookiness. The United States and Georgia are signing a deal that would create a military supply line from Georgia to Afghanistan. However, Georgia shares no border with Afghanistan. In fact, the two countries are well over a thousand miles distant. According to the Stratfor analyst, "unless the Georgian government somehow managed to bore a tunnel underneath Earth's crust between Georgia and Afghanistan".

Full Body Scanner Doesn't Find Bomb

Ever since the "December Bomber" attack, full body scans at airport checkpoints have been pushed as a security solution. In this German video, the scanner finds the fat man's cell phone and microphone, but failed to find the bomb making materials he simply hid, in his suit and pants pockets, his mouth, and his socks. The scanners don't work. Full body scanners are yet another part of the performance of national security at airports worldwide, meanwhile all these emerging scanner companies are set to make millions.

Company of Heroes Series 75% Off This Weekend

The entire Company of Heroes series is on sale this weekend. Company of Heroes: Gold is especially a good deal, at $7.49, it includes the original game and the Opposing Front expansion. CoH is one of the better real time strategy games of the last couple of years, at this price point anybody who hasn't already played, should pick it up. It retains the classic base building and resource collecting mechanics of traditional RTS games, something fewer and fewer RTS games do today, while not feeling dated. It also features excellent unit AI.

You can also download the official soundtracks of the games for free. They contain over 30 orchestral tracks. Links are at the bottom of the Steam store page.

Also, the Company of Hereoes: Eastern Front mod was released yesterday. The mod adds the Red Army into the game, with all new models and textures. The EF team has done a good job, and it all looks very professional. The download is available at ModDB.

Smoke After Thanksgiving Dinner

Ad from the 30s.

Soviet Illustrations Part 2

Designed for the UCSB Russian club. It features a stylized likeness of one of the Russian language professors, in Stalin-like garb. The whole thing was done using the free image editor GIMP.
Another design for the UCSB Russian club in 2006. It was based on this classic poster from the civil war era. It was done by hand using a two-sided marker. A part of the picture has been cropped out in the scan, and the full text was not yet complete in this digital version. The full text read, "You, have (you) joined yet".


Like the images from the previous set, this one was made in the vector drawing program Inkscape. This is from a detail a Soviet poster. To get the right proportions I removed Engels from selection.

Soviet Ilustrations Part I

This is a set of Soviet themed designs, I made using the original copies cleaned up and modified in Inkscape. The first two were made using a tiny design found in the background of a Soviet postage stamp.

V-Poot Endorses Hip-Hop

Street rap a unique "Russian charm", like Fords and Capitalism. He also includes, that break dancing cannot be combined with drugs and alcohol.