"Рысь"

[theweaselking]

I'm afraid I have no idea what a "Рысь" is, but this picture is labelled one. And I'm pretty sure the cat disapproves of me for not knowing.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Google tells me it's a Eurasian lynx.

[rosethornn.livejournal.com]

My first thought was Iberian Lynx. But from Google Images, the eyes are wrong. So I'm guessing some sort of domesticated relative, or something.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Рысь is Russian for "lynx," without getting into the specific breeds.

Incidentally, a great way I've found for identifying animals in foreign languages. Go to $LANG.wikipedia.org where $LANG is the language you're starting from. Get to the beastie's page, then grab the Latin name, switch to your preferred language, and search for the Latin name. So far, I've had a 100% success rate. Maybe the flora I look up just isn't strange enough though.

[thette.livejournal.com]

(Fauna.)

I use that method, and also sometimes the straight translation, when a page has a corresponding page in English. Doesn't always work, but works often enough.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

My bad, I was unclear. I haven't really looked up many animals, but plant questions keep cropping up. Haven't had as much luck with direct translation pages, hence the complicated instructions.

Oh, the fun I had trying to figure out what the difference is (in English) between Клюква and Брусника.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but you are the best person who could know this: What the hell happened to Mighty God King? When I try "mightygodking.com" all I get is a "this account is suspended" message...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

He got slashdotted by Cory Doctorow. BoingBoing put him on the front page over the "MGK versus his adolescent reading habits" posts, and his ISP shut him down for completely smashing his bandwidth limits.

He's working on fixing that!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. Relieved. Well, you know what I mean; I was worried it was something much worse.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Nope. Nothing nearly so sinister.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

The term is "boingboinged" :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Slashdot has been doing it for more than a decade. Boingboing is new.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

...your point being?

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Ultimately, it's probably the same people using all the diff systems. LOL I know my bf uses about 4 or 5.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Or "The Digg effect" when it's digg users which crash a server.

[skington.livejournal.com]

See, I have never understood ISPs that did that. Why the hell, when someone gets slashdotted / starts getting famous, would you pull their site, when you could instead keep it up, make pointed remarks about how much traffic they should be paying for, and let them see what a difference it makes (email / feedback / fame / ad revenue etc.), and convince them that perhaps they should indeed pay for an upgrade?

By pulling a site just when it gets popular, you're giving a finger a mile high to your successful customers. Why?

(NB: I work for a UK ISP, and I understand that bandwidth has been traditionally much more expensive in the US for some reason. Still, couldn't you eat the costs for a bit rather than telling your suddenly-successful customer to fuck off? Also, isn't everyone suffering from high power costs these days, leaving bandwidth comparative cheap?)

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

The companies here assume that if you are getting that much traffic, you must be running a business and because running a business on their servers on a personal account is against their TOS, they shut you down.

It's stupid, I know.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The problem is that, with enough traffic, you *take down their server* and they stop being able to serve your pages at all.

And since he's on cheap web hosting, this means he's on a shared cluster. Meaning he takes down *everyone else on the cluster*, too.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

He's back!
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/31/em-gee-kay-too-point-oh/

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

Love the eyes.

[iponly.livejournal.com]

With all the russian photoblogs you frequent, perhaps you'd like this excellent English-Russian/Russian-English (Англо-русский/Русско-английский) online dictionary (http://www.rambler.ru/dict/).

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful feline!
Big nose like that, reminds me of all the Maine Coon cats I have ever met.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

racist

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Spooked you, didn't they?

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Looks lynx-ish to me.