Category Archives: Current Affairs

In this category will go everything that does not fit into any of the others, any kind of one-off news where it is not really worth opening a sub category for.

Swedish Planes for Suisse Airforce – and what it might mean ;)

Posted on Thursday, 1 December, 2011 | Leave a comment

Thanks @martinkallstrom for sharing this one, and thanks Burki from Suisse 24heures for coming up with this gorgeous comment on Switzerland buying Swedish Gripen-planes.

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An old envelope can protect your life

Posted on Wednesday, 30 November, 2011 | Leave a comment

At least it protects all your digital life carried by your favourite notebook.

I admittedly was a bit skeptic about the quality when I found this laptop sleeve on Coolstuff.se. But since I had already been looking for quite some time for a nice cover that doesn’t look boring, and since I didn’t find any that I liked, I gave it a try. The price seemed very much OK as well. And I didn’t get disappointed! This laptop sleeve really looks like an old envelope! And it is really sturdy, with a nice red, strong padding inside as well. It might take a bit more space in your rucksack, but to me, that’s worth it. You can even customise the sleeve further by writing on it, putting on stickers etc..

For my German readers, you can get this one as well at Yomoy.de , the German platform of Coolstuff.se.

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Transport for the Dead?

Posted on Tuesday, 29 November, 2011 | Leave a comment

One of these trucks we saw during the weekend:

Now, for an English-speaking person this is not that funny – but trust me, it is for a German, and especially for a German that knows Swedish…

Cos for us, this is clearly a company that transports dead people (“Toten” = German for the dead ones) and carcasses (what “AS” means in Swedish). And that even as far as to Portugal, when you check out their website. Impressive.

And it’s a Norwegian company, in case you wondered.

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Don’t worry, turkey never tastes good!

Posted on Friday, 25 November, 2011 | Leave a comment

Thanks to @Bougie for posting this video on Twitter! It tells us what loads of people ever having tried to make a turkey must have thought loads of times, but never dared to admit, speak out loud etc. However, Aunt Mary doesn’t hesitate to share it with us …

Have fun watching! And cooking of course. :)

 

Following this video, I found another more serious one with Mary. Food Runners! A great initiative in San Francisco. To my mind such a service should be standard in every big (or even smaller) city in our Western world where we throw food away all too easily and without thinking.

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Now Christmas time started in Linköping

Posted on Thursday, 24 November, 2011 | Leave a comment

The tree got lights now!

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Preparing for SIME next week!

Posted on Friday, 11 November, 2011 | Leave a comment

On Tuesday and Wednesday next week SIME in Stockholm will take place! SIME is one of the leading Nordic conferences for digital and online media. And thanks to the Martin Recke and his team at NEXT, I will not only be able to visit the conference, but I will also have the honour to keep you updated about the event on the NEXT-Blog!

Anybody interested in SIME is welcome to read my updates, but there is also the official SIME-blog, which will probably give you some more interesting stories.

Like every year, there is also a SIME Liveboard (by Twingly) where you can follow all tweets in realtime:

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