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What It Looks Like When The Sky Crashes

10:00AM January 23, 2012 | Casey Chan

A floating digital billboard programmed to beam up to the sky crashed in Odessa, Ukraine, so it transformed into a floating error box. Funny! Or maybe God uses Windows? [Izismile via BoingBoing]

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Ukranian Defence Chief Plagiarises Steve Jobs’ Graduation Speech

11:00AM August 3, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Looks like China’s not the only country jazzed about stealing the contents of Steve Jobs’ brain! Although far less lucrative than counterfeiting iPhones, TNW reports Ukraine’s Secretary of National Security and Defence stole Mr Apple’s Stanford speech. They’re different, AMIRITE? More »

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This Is What Happens When A 54,000-ton Ship’s Brakes Fail

5:00AM May 24, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Last week, the 54,000-ton cargo ship RHL Fidelitas arrived to the port of Odessa in Ukraine. Everything looked good as the Liberian flag ship approached port until the main engine failed. Without power to reverse the propellers, the inevitable happened. More »

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The Unlikely Graffiti Of Chernobyl

12:40AM April 28, 2011 | Cyriaque Lamar

It’s been 25 years today since the Chernobyl disaster, but that doesn’t mean people don’t drop by the ghost town of Pripyat. One sign of human visitation is the graffiti street artists leave behind. More »

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Chernobyl, 25 Years Later

2:30AM April 27, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Twenty-five years ago today, the sky fell on a corner of Ukraine. The Chernobyl nuclear plant, a symbol of man’s triumph over the atom and the pride of a nation, experienced a system failure so complete, so devastating, that it left an irreparable wasteland in its wake. Explosions rang out. Radioactive smoke stained the early morning sky. And 350,000 people lost their homes forever. More »

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Chernobyl’s Car Burial Ground Looks Like A Colourful Array Of Tic Tacs

10:20PM January 11, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

If I hadn’t told you this aerial view was of the cars collected from Chernobyl post-nuclear disaster, you’d think it’s just any old scrapyard, right? Now owned by the state, it’s a colourful reminder of what happened 25 years ago. [EnglishRussia]

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Come One, Come All To Chernobyl-Land! (Mutations Cost Extra)

5:20PM December 14, 2010 | Adrian Covert

One of history’s worst nuclear meltdowns took place 25 years ago, when a reactor exploded in Chernobyl, Ukraine, contaminating everything within 50km. Now, the European country is ready to open up the once-radiated area to citizens and tourists alike. More »

Parents Put Kid Into Airtight Plastic Ball, Shove Her In A Lake

6:20AM September 30, 2010 | Joel Johnson

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I love putting kids in plastic as much as the next guy, but I don’t understand why she needs all that air. When I was a young Soviet, we had to share our air with everyone in the vysotki. More »

Ukraine Begins Employing Giant Combat Robots For Security

4:20PM December 25, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

“TIS is proud to inform that we are the first in our Kominternovsky region to employ Giant Humanlike Combat Robots within the Security Department. Model TIS-1CB.” That’s the caption for this photo. What are they up to in Ukraine? Updated. More »

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Even God Runs Windows XP

2:00AM November 10, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Yes, that’s a Windows XP error floating in the sky. No, it’s not a Photoshop. And this is what it looked like after a reboot… More »