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Swedish Jazz Band Includes A Tractor
Culture Buzz The Olle Hemming Trio in Umea, Sweden, added farm equipment for its fourth member.
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Sweden's Awesome Twitter Account Run By Random Swedes
Tech Buzz The “Curators of Sweden” project is a new initiative that gives a different Swede the chance to run the country's official @Sweden Twitter account for a week. There's no filter, the content is totally the prerogative of the citizen tweeter - tweeting one's lunch, drunk @ replies, cursing, criticizing Lebron James, etc. is all permitted. This is a landmark move for democracy in the digital space, also the tweets are hilarious.
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Santa: “I Don’t Do Poor Countries”
Culture Buzz Unicef Sweden launched a new commercial. It's a little harsh, but that's the point.
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Link: Liquor Ad Takes A Dark, Unexpected Turn
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-iq...
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Not sure if advertisement, or PSA. As the wind turns bitter and the days become shorter, what could be more appealing than a Friday night spent relaxing by the hearth with good friends and a warming glass of spirits?
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Hilariously Bad Lion Taxidermy
Culture Buzz Behold, the Derp Of The Jungle! In its own way, it's quite impressive.
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10 Foreign McDonald’s That Aren’t Exactly McDonald’s
Food Buzz Thank goodness for lax copyright enforcement in foreign markets. A value meal of hilarity nuggets, super sized with infringement.
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Sweden’s Solar System Sculptures
Culture Buzz Not just a pretty face. Sweden has constructed the world's largest scale model of the solar system; stretching the entire length of the country. Which translates to a scale of 1:20 million!
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Link: See Photos of WikiLeaks' James Bond-Like Data Headquarters
http://www.switched.com/2010/12/09/wikileaks-photos-data-...
If you thought Julian Assange and his team of WikiLeakers were wreaking global havoc from some decrepit, dank basement in northern Europe, guess again.
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The Best Swedish Dance Band Album Covers
Music Buzz I would buy these albums for their covers alone, and I would imagine the music must be just as hilarious. They’re like the Beatles, only Swedish!
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Video: Hockey Celebration Fail
On the positive side, it was a pretty impressive goal. On the negative side, nobody is watching this video because of the awesome goal you made.
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Link: The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-returns-with-guns-...
After initially being taken offline by Swedish authorities, and after its first escape route failed, The Pirate Bay has returned with all guns blazing!
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Link: The Pirate Bay Finally Taken Offline
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline-by-s...
Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several Hollywood studios, the Swedish authorities have now ordered The Pirate Bay to be disconnected from the Internet. The site's bandwidth suppliers have been threatened with a large fine.
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Link: Pirates Charge Sweden for Violation for Human Rights
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/pirate-ba...
The Pirate Bay, a Swedish internet piracy group, has been denied a retrial by Swedish Judges, and have decided to bring charges to the Swedish government for what they think is a violation of their rights.
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Image: Lego Jesus
For its lifesize lego Jesus Christ, a Protestant church in Sweden required 40 volunteers, 18 months, and more than 30,000 individual Lego pieces. [Editor's Note: But it was totally worth it! Go Lego Jesus! Save our Lego souls!]
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Image: Swedish Dance Bands Of The ’70s
Feast your eyes on a collection of pictures of Sweden's forgotten musical geniuses. Sweden's a fairly small country, right? How did they manage to accumulate so much awesomeness per capita?
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Gay Animals
Science Buzz A Swedish museum is putting up an exhibit called “Rainbow Animals” that features the homos within the animal kingdom. The exhibit doesn't, however, include those monkeys who are so often caught trashed at bars, offering to kiss other straight monkeys just to get attention. Stop playing, monkeys.
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Robyn
Music Buzz The late-nineties pop star has made a stateside return with her self-titled album. Robyn’s welcome return completely validates the hardened drool that’s lined the keyboards of American indie music bloggers for the past several years. Considered “the Madonna of Sweden,” Robyn has reinvented herself as a synth-heavy, electro pop superhero on her own label after rejecting the demands of industry execs. Needless to say, she’s quickly grown out of her “VH-1 phase.”
