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T O · E V E R Y · C H I L D · is an educational project with Nicholas Negroponte from MIT involved.

“Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Visit the OLPC:s web

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S P O R E · V I D E O · G A M E · by EA released 4 September, here discussed by producer Will Wright.

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L I S T E N · T O · T H I S · keyboard shredder. Not only guitarists can play fast.

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A · N E W · M A G A Z I N E · for macusers with a maclifestyle perspective will enter the market soon. It’s Peter Esse from Macradion and Macfeber, one of Swedens most popular blogs, that is the founder of this new paper.
Visit iLove

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Y O U · C A N · F I N D · the statistics for the most popular and visited web sites in Sweden at Tidningstatistik. You can find out that Bonnier’s Dagens Industri and the IDG-cluster are the two biggest dragons at the web TS-controlled web-publication field.

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O F · B L O G G I N G · with a video from Ullevi, Swedens biggest Stadium from SVT with Iron Maiden playing “Run to the Hills”

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T H E · W I I · F I T · is a training device to put on your floor and step up on. You can train yoga, strenght, balance and aerobics.

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I · A M · R A N K E D · as #32 mac-irc-chatter in Sweden today. I write in avarage 40 words/day, every single day, on Mac and Apple topics (source: Buck@#macnytt@freenode.net)

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U P · 1 0 % · last 30 days. The Uppsala based swedish gamedeveloper with the Darkness and Riddick games, was last SEK 0,34.
Learn more
Read an interview with the CEO at Gameindusry.biz

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N O W · A T · L A S T , I have uploaded a new tune called "Casa Grande" on my www.allears.se site. Kind of experimental distorted electro latin style. I got inspired by a spoky house for sale in rural Smaland, Sweden, big scary with a over grown garden, trashed stairways etc - for short a house suitable for a mystical shock rock video. You dont want to know who the former residents was and for sure not what the did there. Well this scary house influenced me in some way when producing this tune.

Tunses by Tom Smoke’s Mountain Fire Wind at Allears.

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R O B E R T · W E L L S · from Sweden is the composer of the 2008 Olymics theme song “We Are Ready”. Over 100 songs competed for the job. The song will be played for over 1300 times at the Olympics. The Olympics will start at friday 08-08-08 at 08:08:08.
Visit theOlympic web

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S W E D I S H · N E T · R A D I O · on mac os related topics.
How are Steve Jobs health condition? MobileMe, iPhone and other subjects are up to discussion and penetration.
Visit and listen here

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T H E · N E W · Asus eee PC 900 seems to be a nice small palmtop to use when you are computing in the open air. It’s small, soundless, energyefficient, is delivered with bundled softwares and priceworthy. Go visit TrustedReview for a review on the machine. >

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T H I S · W E E K E N D · it’s metal festival in Wacken, Germany, EU. I listening to the Wacken event radio at Last.fm right now. Do it at: www.last.fm/listen/event/278782

A little story. When I was a kid I had a dream that Iron Maiden walked on the St:Eriksgatan in Stockholm and Bruce Dickinson came up to me and asked if I wanted to join them as a drummer. Guess if I was disapointed when I waked up. St:Eriksgatan btw is the musical district in Stockholm.

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G E N U I N E · Swedish hula hula rock n roll music video and movie track from the happy 50ies staring famous movie star character Asa-Nisse,played by John Elfstrom, actor in more than 100 movies. Singer Bertil Boo acted in the Asa-Nisse movies in the role as himself, the singing farmer. I have to say that swedish rock n roll have developed since the golden days back then.

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Q U O R T H O N (Tomas F) · was one among my best friends in Vinsta school and Spanga Gymnasium school in the 80ies. He was completely obsessed with music at realy early years. Kiss was the favorite band at this early stage. He put up posters (teared out from music magazines) outside the classroom, posters that covered the walls completely. We choosed group music in “fritt valt arbete” (free school subject), as the only one from the class that dared to play when we where 14. The group music class (two pupils) was conducted by the music teacher, an older man with a grey goatie(called Carl Henry, if I remember right).

D R U M S · A N D · K I S S · Quorthon lived in a big white stone house near the school and I lived at a greater distance and had to travel by bus every morning. My parents and I chosed this scool because it was the best in this part of Stockholm. Unfourtanely I could not spend much time with my schoolmates after school because I had to take the bus home to my district and also studied a lot. Quorthon talked a lot on musical topics on the lunch breaks, like what the intention of a musical solo was, what it meant, and on how to play drums, the members of Kiss. He played Pearl drums that he practised on at home. He was quiet, tall and skinny and I think he had a verry strong and cloes knit family at home, so he didn't took much contacts with mates in school. His dad run a musical business operation called Tyfon that focused on swedish dance bands originaly and I remembered that his dad was young, much younger than mine. I do not know when Quorthon picked up the guitar but I think he had a lot of opportunities to play what ever he wanted at home.

T H E · C L A S S · from school had a reunion on a boat trip to Mariehamn at Aland in the 90ies. Quorthon talked a lot and we shared cabin. He had started out his international music career with the Hammerheart album, was sad for some unsolvable difficulties with his ex-girlfriend from a south European country, Italy I think it was. Most of our classmates did not understand and apreciated his extremly high musical ambitions and his great talent. Music was something you could do on your spare time but not do for a living was the middle class perspective around. Quorthon did not like school much, expect from music of course. I remember that he also was a bit interested in sports and had a bag with the 1980 Moscow olympics logo printed on it.
He used to pick on me because he was almost a year older than me. He was so much more experienced, also tired on school and I was far behind, in his oppinion. He didn't found comfort with the life in school and wanted to be inspired by real life and grown ups outside the school setting.
I remember a travel with the class down to a lake where we used canoes to experience the wild nature. I fell of course out of the canoe and into the water, something my class mates found verry funny. I used to have a picture of all mates in canoes somewhere in a photoalbum.

T I M E · went on. I studied a lot and worked at different sites at offices. Quorthon was 100% focused on music. Mine and Quorthons paths went on diffent directions. We lost contact. After a lot of years I got information that Quorthon lived in an appartment just some kilometers away. He had experimented with his stage name and changed it several times. When I got layed of from my old work I got a lot of time to think and I thought a lot on music and started to think what Tomas was up to. Maybe I should call him up, after all this years and go visit him?

I · D I D N ' T · even know the name of his band at that time. I started to search on the net and I googled around a lot and found out that he had founded and run a metal band for several years and published a complete catalog of albums, had international success, made several promotion trips abroad, most most important of all – invented two musical genres all by himself with his own ears of creativity. Bathory and Quorthon (sounded like a sort of cream cheese to me) at the beginning.

T H E · C O N C E P T · of a branching out or differentation of hard rock to what we today call extreme metal (speed, grind, trash, hardcore etc. etc.) started to be popular in the early 90ies with bands like Slayer and Megadeath. Bathory was influenced by Motorhead. The studio equipment and later musical applications for computers developed so one person could compose, play and produce all music by himself. Bathory was a band that bacame a oneman band with a great recording artist, supported by new technologies.

A T · T H E · S U M M E R · of 2005 I thought of taking up contact, but a big issue crystalized among the rich information on the net. Quorthon had hart failure and he had got a deadly stroke just seven weeks before. That was the irony of destiny, that we never should talk again. I would liked to say hello, but now I only can bow and say thank you alot for beeing such a great person in my early youth and thanks for all your effort you brought into you music that will live on for a long time in the future.

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T H E · A P P L E · I P H O N E · 3 g · was released in Sweden today. The doors of Telia Mobile Phone Shop in Vällingby City opened at 10.00. A security guard let one customer from the long line come in at a time. The first buyer waited from midnight when the iPhone was sold out in the Flagship store at Kungsgatan.

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C O N D O L E E Z Z A · R I C E · US secretary of state met up with Kiss at Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm May 29 and became a Kiss Army member. Kiss Army Kiss official suporter club relaunched in 2007.
Learn more from this AP article and this New York Times article

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(Kiss at Södermalm Thu 29 May) Category: Music

Eric Singer Drum Solo Part One

R I G H T · N O W · 5-6.30 PM Eric Singer (d) and Tommy Twayer (g) from rockband Kiss are at 4 Sound Music Store in Stockholm at Folkkungagatan. Go there and have their signature. Tomorow Kiss on their great Alive 35 tour in Europe will play at Stockholm Stadion. Eric Singer also plays with Alice Cooper as in this fun video from 2007.

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I S · A · H A R D · B A N D · from Northen Europe. This excerpt is an interview from National Broadcasters TV4 Sweden.

TV4 interview with Xbone Pirates

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T H E · B E S T · S O N G · in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrad was Spains tune "El Chicki Chiki" aka "El Robocop" spanish rap nerd bitpop with nice girls dancing. I gave nerd-Elvis Rodolfo Chickilukuatre a 12.

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T H E · L O W · D O L L A R · compensates the rising sallary for top artists. The big music events and festivals are predicted to sell out with a lot of great names. The biggest event thsi summer in Sweden is Sweden Rock Festival, the hard rock and metal festival in Blekiinge. Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Whitesnake will all rock your ass of there 4 to June 7.

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B I G · E V E N T · W I T H · D I C E · May 22 05.30 PM at SoStockholm Kungsträdgården. Per Strömbäck from Dataspelsbranchen.se Björn Norberg from MejanLabs and Peter Henriksson HR manager at Dice. Food and drinks and discussions.

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T H E · A N U A L · premium game event in Malmo Nordic Game
with Career Expo for development of the working force, with HR pros etc.

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G T A · I V · has reached a new Guiness World Record in fastest selling entertainment product ever with 3,6 million units sold in the first 24 hours. Read more at Gameindustry.biz.

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N O W · P O L I T I C S · gone wild and crazy in Sweden. A new forum called Public Service is the platform for discussion between the next gen future government. At wednesday Karl Sigfrid (m) and Martin Andreasson (fp) will discuss the intelectual property rights for the future, at Street Södermalm at 06.00 PM, and it’s free.

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Johnny Cash - Hurt | Lyrics and tabs
“what have I become? / my sweetest friend
everyone I know / goes away in the end”

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T H E · B U Z Z · W O R D · at Web 2.0 in SF was Corporate Machups. Portals that presents content produced on other sites in a new way. John Musser from Programmableweb presented web oriented architechtures. Microsofts Amit Mital lectured on MS Mech tech that connects computers.

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L I S T E N E D · T O · S T A R B R E E Z E · HR Manager the other day. He lectured on the Starbreeze production organization, who do what and when. He also payed a tribute to the demoscene where Starbreeze originates from. Right now their in the production of the sequel of the first Riddick game.

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T H E · W I N N E R S · yesterday of the ishockey series HV71 is from Jönköping the hometown of Dreamhack computer festival and LAN/Demoparty. Congratulations HV71, Jönköping and Dreamhack for that matter.
Read more on the final 6th match

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J O S H · K L E I N · down to the left held an most entertaining keynote speach on Swedish Institute of Computer Science Day 2008 in Electrum at Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. Josh lectured on training of crows and cats, his work as SF author etc. Other lecturer talked over the development of intilligent lighting and displays in public places.
Transcripts form all lectures could be asked for by a comment or email.
SICS day info

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Y E S T E R D A Y · I attended the computer newspaper Computer Swedens Career Expo at Berns in Stockholm. Several companies where represented. I talked to IT-Resurs, Sandvik, Softronic and IBM representatives.

One of the most interesting highlights of the evening was the lecture by headhunter/senior HR expert, managing partner Per-Allan Karlsson at Heidrick & Struggles Stocholm office. He presented inside thoughts on the recruitment process, do and dont’s.

Visit CareerXpo Stockholm

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I · A M · J U S T · B A C K · after two days conference on the contry side outside Stockholm. At an old military base a new conference center has been established. Discussions, group assignments and a lot of food and wine etc had been a daily matter. Now it's time to rest and maybe run i the forrest.

Visit the conference center www.gallofsta.se

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I · H A V E · R E L E A S E D · a demo album called "Expost Nuus" in Februar. A sample with short exerptions could be found here on allears.se. The theme is travelling and is comprehended as a concept album for a travelling video game where the main character visits different exotic places. The album is in an orcestral instrumental genre.

Visit AllEars.se and listen to the Demo

Click on the image to see cover art in high resolution

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W H O · I S · T H E · G R E A T E S T · nintendo weirdo of the world? The Angry Nintendo Nerd with his outrages and graphical effects? Members, not only making SIDs, of the minimalistic famous Swedish demogroup FLT that was nominated for a prize for best demo at the annual Scene Award at Breakpont in the Frankfurt Metro area? The completely insane Nintendo Girl that writes on her rantings and bad behaviour on her USA visits. Telling you stories that Astrid Lindgren could dream of. Or is it the demoscener/musician from d4rkn3ss in Linköping based demo group that used to shout and mess around in his ugly shirts, making new school tunes in nsf-format just like NYC based Nullsleep. I wote for finnish hardcore sceners making extreme minimalsitic metal on nsf. Or maybe Ron the Hedgehog dressed as Mario.
Btw, here is a fun game tune cover to jam to recomended by the Nintendo Girl.

Visit the demoscene comunity on www.scene.org

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B O (S) (S) E · B Y L U N D · who will finish his job as boss for the Arbetsförmedlingen. He was an example of the old habit to place leftist SAP people on leading posts in Swedish State administration, and in this conduct strong ideologicaly based leadership of different sectors of the state.
Source: Realtid.se

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4 0 0 · E M P L O Y E E S · at SVT, will be sacked declares CEO Eva Hamilton. All production except news will be closed in Norrköping and the production will be centered to Stockholm, Göteborg , Malmö and Umeå. Sveral titles will change production location. 150 over 65 will leave the company. I hope SVT will produce more independent and free television as their device says. Maybee not so much extremistic content anymore.
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Image: SVT

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T H E · J O N S H U L T · F A M I L Y · A L B U M : V O L U M E · 1 · release party and concert in the dungons of Kaffegillet Trångsund 4, Old Town Stockholm, Sunday March 31 01.00 PM. 8:14 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit -

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I N V E S T I G A T I N G · F O R B E S · annual list of the world’s 1000 richest (men:) USA dominates overall, but a new trend is clear as diamonds. Russia is rising. Young russian business-men is poping up like muchrooms and they are welleducated and building up their own business in sectors like banking, property development, real estate, oil etc. Sergey Polonsky (born 1972) of Mirax Group serves as one example. The americans are big in IT development and investment like hedge funds. One example of an rising young american business-man is Peter Thiel, aged 40, born in Frankfurt am Main, living in San Francisco. He is the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. He is also gay, if that is of any significance.

Sweden resides 1% of the hyper rich individuals in a population that is 1‰ of the world population.

Forbes.com

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B Y · U B I S O F T. According to Gamasutra has the french video game publisher acquired rights to Tom Clancy name for games, media. The Tom Clancy brand is worth USDM 20. I am willing to sell out my name Tom Smoke for just a fraction of that.

Learn more on Gamasutra

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“Web 2.0 technologies are empowering us in ways we could only have imagined even just a few years ago. We're able to build more, connect more, have more fun, sell more stuff, share more than ever before—and do it all faster.” (Web 2.0 Expo 2008)

T H E · O P E N I N G · T A G · L I N E · for Web 2.0 Expo above, an expo to be arranged in San Francisco 22–25 April. Companies like Intel, Google, Disney, Sun, Adobe, Yahoo, Amazone, Citrix will present their web 2.0 solutions and Strategies.

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I · H A V E · G O T · a new stage outfit: a skull'n'bones hat, black pinstripe suit, skull'n'bones shoes, black shirt. Pictures to be up soon. Not exactly looking as good as the gentleman to the left but almost. Go visit my pictures at my Flicker site btw.

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S A T C H U R A T O R · a new effect introduced by Vox Amp. and master guitarist Joe Satriani at Musikmesse Frankfurt 08 12–15 March. The gadged is in a simplistic red retro design.
At the fair is Lamb of God and Swedens own Arch Enemy and Mattias ”Snackis” Eklund from Gothtowns Freakkitchen.

Visit Musikmesse

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T E C H · M A N A G E R · A N D · D E V E L O P E R · Mr. J. Lindfors at Microsoft Developer Network, runs his own blog, where he discusses technological aspects and topics related to development on the Windows plattform.

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P U B L I S H I N G · on your myspace/facebook status line is a new oportunity for writing development. Several myspace artists like Metal Sanaz and Snakemannn are using this method. You have to uptade often and write a lot of fun stuff. You change your main image often and make it entertainng. A lot more valid and relevant than ordinary boring trad. printed media that where born to die.
Btw if Snakemannn wants to develop his silver business I have an unemployed goldsmith from Bagdad who wants an internship and searching for employment opportunities.

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A T · T H E · E V E N T · snack and breweries was served. After the lectures the attenders socialised. Lee Sandberg programmer from Sightline Vision and Johan Lindfors Tech. Evangelism Manager from Microsoft.
Visit Johans blog

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O D D · A H L G R E N · from Avalanche Studios the developer of the Just Cause video game and right a game that sold 1 Meg. exemplars world wide. He is now working on the sequel Just Cause 2. Right now Avalanche has three projects under development. Odd lecturing on Intelectual Property development and management.

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N O R D M A N · T H E · B A N D · performing with the traditional nyckelharp instrument and with a text about witchburning are ready for the Eurovision song contest national final in Stockholm Globe Arena next Saturday.

Find and read new blogs on Nordman

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M R · H E D E L I N · at Excitera. He was born and raised, in the industry city Borås, in a family of entrepreneurs. He started up the company boo.com a online reseller of sporting goods active on the internet at the rim of the Internet bubble in 1999. He speaked on the company and that the financial experts having right in their predictions on the oportunities on trade on the net. Today Hedelin works on his own compay Hedelin & Co.

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M A T T I A S · M I K S C H E · it-entrepreneur, founder of Boxman, ZTV, e*Trade Sweden etc. lectured about his recent company Stardoll at Excitera Enterprice Forum, arranged by KTH Royal Institute of Tech, at World Trade Center Stockholm Thursday 6 March.

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M E T A L · B A N D · A V A T A R · and Crash Diet is young hard bands. But right now every weekend is about Eurovision Song Contest. My collegue at FastNews in Norrkoping has made his opinion heard at his blog and I can tell you he is right. But Swedish metal is good. Today the toilet paper was finished so I had to use the Agonyzone Metal News Paper to wash my ass. Sorry this doesn't mean tha metal is shit. The Swedish Metal Awards results are presented here. Crash Diet and W.A.S.P. was awarded. Great shit!

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B O U R G E O I S I E · L I B E R T Y · L O V E · no it’s not the declaration of a new Libertarian Nation. It’s the keyworlds of the catchy verse of BWO’s transhuman electrofolk song “Lay Your Love on Me” that won this weekends competition in the EBU Song Contest togheter with Frida. If you dare to sing along with lead vox Martin Rolinski visit this lyric site

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I · W A N N A · B E · S O M E B O D Y · is placed as song 2 on W.A.S.P.s self titled debute album is a great tune with good video, that I enjoy on and on and on. W.A.S.P. is out on tour and playing live tonight at the Filmore, NYC. This group was so dangerous in the late 1980ies so TV host Mr. Sivert Öholm at Swedish national Television hosted a program where he strongly critizised and totaly damned the band that a lot of young people loved. But as you all know music power is great and can’t be stoped.
Learn more on this nice tidy group at Last.fm

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C E S · 2 0 0 8 · and a OLED keyboard for the future, the Optimus Maximus keyboard. Align all the images you possible want on your keys. Flashing red warning keys or image of the assigned weapon in the computer game yoa are playing. The keyboard is available on the market right now.

Learn more on Optimus Maximus on YouTube

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T O N I G H T · A T · 08:00 PM the EBU Song contest in Linkoping, Sweden will be delivered home to the to the people of Sweden. BWO the electro laptop glam band with LG-sponsored laptops is the nights favorites with 1.15 to qualify directly to the national finals. As #2 is Patrik Isaksson and his band with 2.2 at Svenskaspel.se

L A S T · W E E K · the shaved twin brothers Rogedahl won in Vasteras ABB Arena.

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D E V O · W A S · P E R F O R M I N G · at Macworld in San Francisco 15 January. A concert report is presented at devo obsesso. Check it out spuds!

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T H E · S Y M P O S I U M · Utsikt2008/Outlook2008, directed by SICS, took place at City Conference Centre in Stockholm. The Outlook 08 lectures was focused on the future of Computers related to disruption in evaluation. Presentations held by E. Hagersten (Acumem) on multicore technology, P. Norberg (Acero) on printed electronics, J Redström on aesthetics on disruptiveness. The picture is from the end discussion with a voting on which technology that will be most important in the future.

If you are interested in deeper knowledge of Swedish ICT research feel free to contact me
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YESTERDAY THE ROCKBEAR award show was commited by the leftist paper Aftonbladet. A lot of prices was given away to bands and artists like Lars Winnerbäck, Adam Tensta, Sahara Hotnights. But is Måns Zelmerlöw actually a rocksinger? One thing is for sure after councelling Google trends, the Rockbear award are fast forgotten fenomenon just remebered some days. But rock n roll still lives.

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WORKING IN STUDIO with some great guys. Installing sound cards, Steinberg’s Cubase, trying out software, playing guitars etc. We recorded some guitar channels. Kent plays his Aria Pro guitar here. We also have some Framus, Hohners

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T O D A Y · I S · T H E · D A Y · dedicated to the fans, yes thats you! :D From the dude living in a shack in the forest going up at 5:00 in the morning running to the bus in the rain for a two hour ride to the job, to the girl living alone with her cat in a big city sleeping all day. I love you all. I hope I can perform live some day with a little strong band.
Take care!

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W O R L D S · T H I N N E S T · laptop, MacBook Air, was introduced at MacWorld Expo last Week. 1.36 kg weigth with new controll technology from the iPod touch, new keyboard, the optical drive replaced with wireless Bluetooth 2.1 technology.

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A · L O T · O F · M U S I C · A W A R D S · in Sweden right now. This week we had the Grammis Award 2008 the Swedish Recording industry award. A lot of old actors and some new. Adam Tensta the great hip hoper got his award in "the best hiphop category". Later we will have the Rockbjörnen (The Rockbear) awards for best rockmusic, and 1 february the Bandit Awards 2008 for best swedish metal/hard rock music.

E S C A W A R D S · Maybe the EscapeZine Awards for best local extreme artistery will be annonuced.
www.escapezine.tk (we will see in the future)
The categories are (prel):
best extreme artist all categories
heaviest alcohol/drug/sex-addict
greatest "mediawhore" (who wants to be seen everywhere and not producing anything)
most missunderstood underrated artist
best pro-stalker
greatest to early past away artist
N B this last passage was a bit ironic part of the blog entry.

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T · E Q L S · M I N U S · 7 5 to the Breakpoint demoparty, the biggest pure world leading Scener event in Bingen, Germany, in Frankfurt metropolitan area. This year as allways held at the easter weekend friday to monday. Several competitions will be held. The Scener Award Show with the best Demos, music, graphics etc will be presented. Seminars, lectures and concert will also enteratain the visitors. And don’t forget the outdoor BBQ party with strong german hot dogs.

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W H I C H · M U S I C · fair and trade show is world’s leading business event if you are a music freak? NAMM is taking place now in Januari 17 in Anaheim, CA, USA and Musikmesse in March 12 in Frankfurt AM, DE, EU. It’s USA vs EU in some way.

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T H E · P R I C E · right now is USD 180 for the Apple Stock APPL Earlier 28 Dec. the Apple stock was hitting USD 200. When the iPhone was released and later the prices cuted, the interest in Apple search on Google rised.
The price dropped today due to the report on slow down in the ecconomy and job growth. Apple the greatest gainer in 2007 among IT manufacturer lost 7% today according to Bloomberg online.

MacWorld Expo will be held in San Fransisco 14–18 January, with exhibitors and conferences.

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N O W · T H E · S T O C K M A R K E T · has slowed down for half a year. It could possibly be time to invest and why not in Swedish game industry stocks. We have Starbreeze (Star), 24hour poker (24h) (formerly Daydream) and the entertaining conglomerat 2entertain (2ent) notated on different Swedish stock trading lists. EA (ERTS) owns Dice (Battlefield) with over 200 emloyees at Sodermalm, Stockholm.

If you are interested in Swedish stocks and market visit Avanza a leading trading site.The cheapest stock trader in Sweden is Aktiedirekt with a 1 EUR prize per courtage. But the most respected agent I think of is Handelsbanken, the banker for the Wallenberg family. The OMX that owns the Stockholm Stock Exchange is possibly going to be bought up by NASDAQ.

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T H I S · N E W · Y E A R S · clear trends are Web 2.0 and Video on internet. Flat LCD/TFT computer screens are getting better and better. More contrast, better resulotion with over 1000 pixels verticaly, wide screen, larger wiveing angel etc. Printers are also getting better with resolution close to high quality 4-color offset printing. Both printers and screens are getting cheaper. One trend is that Apples products are still very high prized, like designed B&O consumer goods for trendy geekchick design nerds.