The Philadelphia Museum of Art has begun selling postcards featuring reproductions of famous paintings with the addition of an image of Santa Claus. This was reported by the Exposure Guide portal . At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, unusual postcards with Santa Claus appeared instead of characters from famous paintings, such as Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (the original is kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence). Photographer Ed Wheeler began making greeting cards with Santa back in 2011.

Americans boasted about the weapons they received for Christmas on social networks Residents of the United States showed off the firearms they received for Christmas on social networks. reports this BuzzFeed . In recent years, the United States has consistently ranked first in the world in the number of firearms in private hands. The right to own such means of self-defense is enshrined in the country's constitution.

10,000 volunteers gathered outside the home of a girl dying of leukemia to sing traditional Christmas carols while her favorite singer called her on FaceTime. This is reported by the Huffington Post . Eight-year-old Laney Brown from Pennsylvania was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in the first half of 2013 and was diagnosed with severe deterioration in late December. According to doctors, she had several days to live.

How does cryptocurrency work? Bitcoin is a virtual cryptocurrency that can easily be called electronic money. With their help, goods are already sold in stores, telephone or hosting are paid for. With all this, the system is considered anonymous and reliable, despite its complete openness. The technical director of TJournal tried to understand in detail the structure of this currency.

One of the clients of the Yulmart cybermarket chain named Sergei asked the store to give his son a robot. Two weeks later, the store fulfilled the client’s wish, and did not even announce it publicly. Sergey with his family On December 11, the Yulmart cybermarket chain announced the sale of Furby robots, calling them “true friends.” One of the store’s customers asked to give a Furby robot to his son Sasha.

The administration of Russia's largest IT community, Habrahabr, has restored the section dedicated to discussing legislation. This was reported in a post published on December 25 on Habrahabr. The new section (“hub”) is called “Legislation and IT business.” The Habrahabr administration has established strict requirements both for the authors who can write in the hub and for the content of the posts themselves in it.

Channel4 TV channel aired Edward Snowden's Christmas message. A former NSA agent spoke with the British about the problem of privacy. For the past 20 years, the British channel Channel4 has annually shown an "alternative Christmas address" - its own version of the Queen's holiday speech with constantly changing speakers. In 2013, former NSA employee Edward Snowden appeared as a guest on this program.

The easiest ways to buy cryptocurrency Following the history of Bitcoin, we are publishing instructions for those who want to buy cryptocurrency, but do not know how to do it. The editors of TJournal presented the three easiest ways. Please note: this article was published in 2013 and some information has changed since then. For more up-to-date information, read our latest and more detailed instructions on how to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies .

A Twitter product manager talks about whether aggressive experimentation will help speed up the service's growth. Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya In recent months, Twitter has accelerated its development pace so much that it has released several major updates at once, while simultaneously conducting a series of experiments on new functionality. 's Casey Newton The Verge spoke with Twitter's VP of Product about where the microblogging service is headed.

How Western stars celebrate Christmas on social networks In the last weeks of the year, social networks are filled with photographs of Christmas trees, garlands and happy faces, and if in Russia the main holiday of the year remains the New Year, then in the West the end of December is Christmas. TJournal has prepared a selection of photographs from the accounts of Western celebrities celebrating the holiday. The British actor, writer and gay icon played Santa Claus on Twitter.

The Auteurs of Christmas video is a series of short sketches on the theme of Catholic Christmas, each of which is made in the style of the famous director. writes about this CoCreate . Ten Christmas scenes are dedicated to the works of Steven Spielberg (E.T., Schindler's List), Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible), Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr.

The personality and creativity of the most famous modern Russian clown, Slava Polunin, inspired the team from London to shoot the film Slava's Journey: Secrets of Snow. In order to complete the film, its creators attempted to raise the missing money using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Filmmakers Clive Howard and Steve Huisman are raising money for post-production of a film about Vyacheslav Polunin and his SnowShow.

Mysterious Organization Gives Free Bitcoins to Nonprofit Projects A mysterious organization called the Bitcoin Grant is giving away large sums of Bitcoin to non-profit developers. reports this Wired . The Bitcoin Grant company is engaged in a kind of Bitcoin charity. She contacts selected organizations, asks their employees questions about the progress of their work, and then gifts them with bitcoins in amounts equivalent to tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Men who couldn't stand shopping were gathered on Instagram account on Instagram is gaining more and more popularity With the approach of Christmas and New Year - the season of tedious shopping - the Miserable Men , publishing photos of men tired of shopping. spoke about the account On December 24, the tech blog Mashable . The authors of Miserable Men collect photographs of men who are waiting for their significant other to finish shopping.

A court in China's Zhejiang province sentenced ten people to two years in prison for cheating in the World of Warcraft game. This was reported by Venture Beat with reference to Zhejiang Online . The criminal group was accused of taking over more than 11,500 accounts of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft and violating a government ban on “invasive” access to ordinary personal computers. The scammers did not do the hacking themselves.