Real-Life Weirdness

[Luke Bunyip]

Underground monsters destroy a Chinese building by undermining it. I mean they claim that it was caused by excavation for a new subway, but really....

[vicky_molokh]

Google glasses becoming illegal in CIS.

[Irish Wolf]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Underground monsters destroy a Chinese building by undermining it. I mean they claim that it was caused by excavation for a new subway, but really....

That's one problem with reading the files at the SCP Foundation a lot - after a while, you see a story like that, and you start trying to think which scip might have done it... :)

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Google glasses becoming illegal in CIS.

Link, please?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

Link, please?

Long story short, the states in the Customs Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia) see them as spy equipment - devices of covert video recording, to be precise. Ukrainian high-ups followed suit, and it seems the trend is likely to spill over to the other states of CIS.

In Russian, but still.
The 'big deal' article.
The attempt to get the government to do some explaining etc.

Given the level of non-covert video recording happening in the streets, the choice seems weird somewhat. Still, I really am ambiguous about the SBU's position. I don't see the ability to record people without their agreement or awareness as an inalienable right, but neither am I fanatical about non-recording privacy (it's nice to have, but there are much, much more important issues).

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And now for something less grimdark:
Naxos audiobooks seems to have a weird idea about how Dostoyevskiy looks like.

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Long story short, the states in the Customs Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia) see them as spy equipment - devices of covert video recording, to be precise. Ukrainian high-ups followed suit, and it seems the trend is likely to spill over to the other states of CIS.

In Russian, but still.
The 'big deal' article.
The attempt to get the government to do some explaining etc.

Given the level of non-covert video recording happening in the streets, the choice seems weird somewhat. Still, I really am ambiguous about the SBU's position. I don't see the ability to record people without their agreement or awareness as an inalienable right, but neither am I fanatical about non-recording privacy (it's nice to have, but there are much, much more important issues).

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And now for something less grimdark:
Naxos audiobooks seems to have a weird idea about how Dostoyevskiy looks like.

Спасибо.

Love the comments about the recording pen.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

I don't remember if this has already been noted or not, but it's definitely an example of real-life weirdness, the research ship that turns vertical on site:

The FLIP Ship

For some images:

http://www.google.com/images?q=%22fl...e_result_group

In a related vein, there is this:

The Polar Pod

I can see gaming possibilities in such a vehicle (if that's the right word for the Polar Pod).

[jblalock77]

How does that expedition not make contact with mythos entities?

[Anaraxes]

Weird Crossover of the Day: IEEE Spectrum presents "Mrs. Frisby and the T-800s of NIMH". Nicodemus! No!

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/ratbot2...776782921.jpeg

(The actual article, if you want to read it.)

[Spudzill]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Why you should be careful if you try to kill a goblin. They fight back, apparently.

seriously,wtf? This is like reading an article from Greyhawk 2000.