During a story about a helicopter crash in Seattle, Fox 31 news editors showed a photo of a male penis live on air. This was reported by the portal Gawker . On Fox 31 (KDVR)'s coverage of the Seattle helicopter crash, viewers were shown several photos from Twitter that were unrelated to the story. Under the presenter's comments about the accident, pictures of Edward Scissorhands, a burrito and an unknown man with an exposed penis were broadcast in succession.

Several Russian publications republished a comic column from The NewYorker magazine that Vladimir Putin would be deprived of his account on the Netflix video service. Comedian Andy Borowitz's March 18 column for The Borowitz Report talks about the sanctions the United States has imposed on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the situation in Crimea.

A New York man, after breaking up with his boyfriend, wrote a series of short essays about their relationship on Yelp, a site that allows you to add reviews of establishments. This was reported by The Washington Post . Chase Compton, a 31-year-old restaurant manager in the West Village, New York, was never a regular user of the Yelp service, but after a breakup he began using it to write reviews of various establishments that he visited with the “love of his life” in the format short essays.

An American avoids paying taxes on an apartment by using a selfie to prove to the Internal Revenue Service that he spends little time in it. reports Mashable . Architect Andrew Jarvis is forced to split between two branches of his company in Philadelphia and New York. At a certain point, this burden became so unbearable for him that he began to spend money on renting a second apartment. He still spends most of his time at his home in Philadelphia, but stays in New York from time to time.

The community on VKontakte, which previously served as a representative office of Lenta.ru, has become an independent project. An announcement about this appeared on the afternoon of March 19 in the community itself. The old Lenta.ru community was renamed “Lentach” on March 12, the day the editor-in-chief of the publication Galina Timchenko was replaced. appeared in its place At the same time, the page lost its official status, and another page , with a more formal presentation of materials.

A student at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan accidentally broke the Drunken Satyr sculpture while trying to take a selfshot with it. reports this Time . Staff at Milan's Accademia Brera, one of Italy's most renowned academic institutions, discovered on Tuesday morning that a 19th-century sculpture in the school's hallway had a broken leg. A review of CCTV footage showed that the act of vandalism was committed by one of the students who climbed onto the statue to take a selfie with it.

Sony, as part of the GDC developer conference, held from March 17 to 21 in San Francisco, announced a prototype of a virtual reality helmet designed to work with the PlayStation 4 game console, The Verge reports . At a special event, a prototype of a virtual reality headset called Project Morpheus was presented by Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida. Nothing gives such a sense of immersion as virtual reality. It has been a dream for many gamers since the invention of the computer.

The new Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea, Natalya Poklonskaya, became an Internet meme after the Argumenty Nedeli-Crimea publication published a video of her press conference on its YouTube channel. Within 8 days of publication, the video received more than 800 thousand views. He was instantly taken apart into quotes, coubs and gifs. Then the Japanese paid attention to the appearance of the 33-year-old woman.

The creator of the popular game Flappy Bird, Vietnamese Dong Nguyen, confirmed its return to app stores. He informed one of his subscribers about this on Twitter . In early March, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Vietnamese said that he was considering the possibility of returning Flappy Bird to the Google Play and App Store app stores, but confirmed his intentions only a few weeks later.

HBO's new website has begun counting down the days until the premiere of Game of Thrones Season 4 by publishing one piece of art each day that metaphorically depicts the death of one of the important characters in the previous three seasons. A month before the premiere of the new season of Game of Thrones, the HBO channel launched the Beautiful Death website , which daily publishes art based on the death of one of the important heroes of the epic.

A graphic designer from Bristol, UK, punished a dishonest seller by bombarding him with text messages containing Shakespeare quotes. reports The Bristol Post . Edd Joseph, 24, bought a Sony Playstation 3 console through free classifieds site Gumtree. He spent only 80 pounds sterling (about 4.8 thousand rubles) on the purchase, but two weeks later the goods never reached him. He contacted the police, but they told him that his chances of getting the console were extremely low.

How map services responded to the admission of Crimea to Russia On March 18, representatives of the authorities of Crimea, Sevastopol and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement on the admission of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation. Although there will be a transition period until January 1, 2015, and many Western countries have expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, map services are starting to change now.

Russian media sites have disabled the ability to comment on materials In recent weeks, the websites of a number of large Russian socio-political media have disabled the ability to comment on materials or significantly limited it. TJournal found out what this is connected with. When trying to leave a review under the material on the Vedomosti newspaper website, readers see a “stub”.

The British government has announced a new one-pound coin with a 12-sided shape and enhanced anti-counterfeiting measures. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal . Old (left) and new (right) one pound coins The new coin will have a 12-sided shape, and special technologies will be built into it to make it more difficult to counterfeit. This will provide a level of security comparable to paper banknotes and speed up automated verification, according to coin issuer Royal Mint.