paperpaper.ru A figure of a giant fly made of plastic and wire was installed on the pedestrian crossing of Palace Passage not far from the English Embankment and Palace Square. It is unclear who the author of the installation was, but as Paper suggests, it could be a street artist known under the pseudonym Hioshi.

A fan of the Fallout series games under the nickname GatorMacheteJr sent a box of 2240 bottle caps to the Bethesda studio to pre-order Fallout 4. Eurogamer reports this . Updated June 25 at 11:01 : Bethesda received the caps and not only agreed to send a copy of the game in exchange for them, but also exchange them for Fallout virtual currency, crediting them to the player’s account.

Who has achieved prominent success in creating a real hoverboard and why Google refused to work on it The protagonist of the movie “Back to the Future 2” Marty McFlay, who went almost 30 years in advance and rolled on a hoverboard, infected all engineers of the world with the idea of ​​creating a flying board. The very day on which McFlay moved - October 21, 2015 - inexorably approaching, and the hoverboards have not become the subject of everyday use.

Swedish photographer Patrick Svedberg turned his personal Instagram into an album of photographs of the same tree standing on the shore of Lake Vättern. In two years, the blog collected about 16 thousand subscribers. Svedberg first noticed the tree, which reminded him of the outline of broccoli, during a regular walk. He took a photo and published it online.

The Internet Archive service for storing historical copies of web pages turned out to be unavailable to subscribers of some Russian providers after the Prosecutor General's Office added one of the service addresses to the register of prohibited sites. reports this Roskomsvoboda .

A state of emergency has been declared in Sochi due to the flood, and the evacuation of residents has begun. The Sochi authorities declared a state of emergency due to the consequences of heavy rains that hit the city on the night of June 25. Seven villages in the area were flooded, the evacuation of residents began, and citizens were asked to temporarily refrain from using personal vehicles. There is no information about the damage caused by the disaster and about casualties.

gpk.gov.by A 23-year-old citizen of Lithuania was traveling with a girl by car and arranged a photo shoot not far from the simplified checkpoint where there was a border sign of the Republic of Belarus. Approaching the sign, the Lithuanian did not notice how he crossed the border - but his illegal actions were stopped in time by a vigilant detachment of Belarusian border guards. Got off with a fine.

What cities, towns and districts abandoned by people look like in photos from Instagram Abandoned cities and neighborhoods are as much a product of urbanization as overpopulation. People leave their settlements due to technological disasters, wars, and deteriorating environmental and economic conditions. Often, after a while, abandoned towns and villages become a magnet for tourists looking for unusual experiences.

joker.buzz According to the hackers, the array contains information from the iPad mini of Medvedev’s press secretary, dated May-June 2015, including personal photographs and iMessage correspondence. You can buy the entire array at once for 300 bitcoins (about 72 thousand dollars). In January, AI sold another correspondence from Timakova for about $35,000.

siliconrus.com The failure that occurred on VKontakte on the morning of June 25 turned out to be related to planned work at the Selectel data center. VKontakte said that they were not warned about the work, and Selectel said that they were warned and that the failure was due to the inaction of VKontakte specialists. The main thing is that the problems were fixed quickly enough.

The blogging platform Tumblr has launched a service for continuously viewing GIFs called Tumblr TV . This was reported by TechCrunch . Even though GIFs are usually low resolution to save bandwidth, on Tumblr TV they play in full screen resolution. If the animation cannot be stretched to fill the entire screen, a duplicate background is made for it - a technique that has been popular on television since the advent of YouTube.

www.facebook.com Representatives of the company posted a vacancy on Facebook for the role of a crazy professor at the amusement park of the Universal film studio in Osaka. From the requirements: “Tall growth, powerful, possibly full physique, as frightening appearance as possible or the ability to portray it” and Slavic origin. Eight hours a day, five days a week.

mashable.com Bats versus crocodiles, lasers, blood and lots of explosions.

Conflict PR specialist Alexander Tsypkin talks about the unique opportunities of a Russian resident Former PR director of Northwestern Megafon, conflict PR specialist Alexander Tsypkin, on his Facebook, discussed the unique opportunities of a resident of Russia and the country’s competitive advantage over other states.