Very useful websdr sites to keep track of happenings around Russia. If you understand Russian.

This is a very useful site to monitor radio stations in and around Russia on multi-band radio. http://websdr.78dx.ru:8901/. This is very good if you are Russian and are an ex-pat wanting to keep track of what is actually happening around Russia in this stressful time. it can monitor AM and USB as well as SSB. … Read more

Very nice new Stalker mod using Call of Pripyat engine.

Dead City Breakthrough (Мёртвый город: Прорыв). This is a new mod using Call of Pripyat engine. But you start in the Cordon military base and you then go to the Cordon camp where there is an underground base. This has a Bar and the Technician that can repair weapons. The house where you find Fox … Read more

How to play Doom on Linux with the Russian Overkill mod for fun.

Playing Russian Overkill is a lot of fun, and this can be done on Linux as well as Windows. We need to add another repository to Ubuntu to manage this. Add the required package repository. I am assuming you already have a copy of classic Doom and the Russian Overkill mod. sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ … Read more

Last flight of the space shuttle and future space travel in doubt.

The Space Shuttle has made its last journey across country to the final resting place in a museum. This is a huge shame that America does not have any more interest in having regular expeditions into space, they are instead depending on other countries to carry their satellites into orbit, the heydays of space travel … Read more