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Russian Oldies Bulletin, December 2008

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[Dec 31, 2008] New Year In Moscow

[Dec 30, 2008] Gurchenko

[Dec 29, 2009] Russian choirs

[Dec 28, 2008] Songs from Russian cartoons

[Dec 27, 2008] Russian tango

[Dec 26, 2008] Russian Waltzes

[Dec 25, 2008] Christmas in Moscow

[Dec 23, 2008] Chesnokov, great Russian Church composer (1877-1944).

[Dec 22, 2008] Rachmaninov's church music

[Dec 21, 2008] Miller

[Dec 19, 2008] Voronets

[Dec 18, 2008] Korobeyniki

Tetris is one of the few games that achieves ultimate popularity. It is remarkably simple, yet remarkably difficult. It's been ported to every computer and game console known to man, and has sold millions of cartridges, tapes, and disks across the land.
Besides that, it also popularized Russian folk song Korobeiniki and, in much more limited fashion, Dance of the Sugar Plum Faity (in the original tetris game for the NES. )

[Dec 17, 2008] Zara

She is really like Russian Charles Aznavour

[Dec 16, 2008] Ryakhin

[Dec 15, 2008] Samotsvety

[Dec 15, 2008] Ovsienko

[Dec 14, 2008] Allegrova

Irina Allegrova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irina created an award ceremony where she and other stars give out the 'Golden Duck' to those journalists who made up the worst lies.

[Dec 13, 2008] Pakhomenko

[Dec 12, 2008] Zykina

[Dec 11, 2008] Tolkunova

[Dec 10, 2008] Ludmila Senchina

[Dec 8, 2008] Dolina

Larisa Dolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. See also Larisa Dolina Official site

[Dec 7, 2008] Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Dec 6, 2008]  Anna Netrebko

Femme fatale of modern opera. See also Anna Netrebko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft - Anna Netrebko  and  Anna Netrebko blog ( contains Anna Netrebko Performances database). The Russian Album MP3 Downloads Anna Netrebko contains some Russian peaces but her main repertoire is Italian and French operas.

[Dec 5, 2008] Gerello

Excellent performance of Tolko Raz Byvaet V Zhizni Vstrecha (Only Once)  and Ytro Tymannoe (Foggy morning).  Note also excellent performance of Ukrainian folk songs (he is a native speaker). I did not see any performances of classic Ukrainian folk songs on this level on YouTube other then YouTube - Soviet Army Chorus & Band - Bandura and may be a couple of others.

[Dec 4, 2008] Marshal

[Dec 3, 2008] Verka Serduchka (Andrey Danilko)

[Dec 3, 2008] Olympics and Sport Songs

[Dec 2, 2008] Yury Gulayev

[Dec 1, 2008] Lada Dans

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month :  How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D

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