January 2010

President of Russia Wishes Me Merry Christmas

January 7, 2010

Orthodox Russian Christmas is today because of the Gregorian calendar.  Or the Julian calendar.  I can’t remember.  Whichever one makes us Russians celebrate Stariy Noviy God (Old New Year) on January 13th with foolish glee.  So imagine how excited I was to receive this personal greeting from Dmitriy Medvedev. Translation: The Christmas holiday turns us to the roots of our spiritual traditions, to the Christian ideals of high morality and charity. They have for centuries served as the major value ...

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Pictures: The Girl from Cairo

January 5, 2010

Reader(s)!  Please note that sometime over the next week I will be shifting the blog over to http://blog.vickiboykis.com to make room for a front page that doesn’t make me look like a crazed Nutella lover, a fact that people will find out only on the blog. Mwuahahaha.  Not too drastic of a change, but you’ll want to update your bookmarks. RSS shouldn’t be affected *crosses fingers* Danke schoen. As I am sitting here, shivering and complaining over the cold, cold ...

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Is it feminism to pose naked with a challah?

January 4, 2010

Reader(s)!  Please note that sometime over the next week I will be shifting the blog over to http://blog.vickiboykis.com to make room for a front page that doesn’t make me look like a crazed Nutella lover, a fact that people will find out only on the blog. Mwuahahaha.  Not too drastic of a change, but you’ll want to update your bookmarks. RSS shouldn’t be affected *crosses fingers* Danke schoen. Thanks to a tip from Mr. B’s cousin, I am now writing ...

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Book Review: The Visual Miscellaneum

January 4, 2010

Note: Book for review kindly provided by HarperCollins. I first heard about this book from Nathan of Flowing Data (a data visualization blog I read semi-religiously) and I knew I had to read it.  I love data displayed in any form, and in fact, part of my job at work is helping people to visualize data in a way that makes sense to them (although I don’t get to play around with pretty graphics as much.) David writes a blog ...

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