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G R E A T · B O O K · sale in Sweden right now. I try to keep the language skills up. I bought an English Chinese Dictionary on a flee market. Fika is a swedish world meaning sitting down having a cup of coffee or tea with a cake. translated to chinese 咖啡
You could also make a cup of indian Chai, tea with much milk and spices. The site Chow seems to be a nice source for the food addict. In the tea you can have some rock candy. I use to go a small food store in Kista where they sell this interesting crystals of suger.

Today I started to be followed by finest.se. This is a site for great and famous people in Stockholm. Well they have told me at work that one part of my work is to make my little science city as popular as Stureplan. It's like Swedens Hackescher Markt. The new Digital Art and Culture Center will open it's door in March and a new digital culture house with different stages will be built soon.
To come back on topics, books, iPod Touch, the device that could be used for eBook-reading, is very popular by adolocents and kids according to a study published by Machable this week. So, teachers leave the kids alone!, With the gadgets, as they read.

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C H R I S T M A S lights at the Järva peoples park culture farm by Kista.

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T H I S W E E K E N D DreamHack is in Skellefteå in northen part of Sweden. DreamHack also has a game qualifier in Berlin to DreamHack Winter in Jönköping. Watch the invitiation to DreamHack Winter below.



A lecture with internet grandfather and Google vice president Vint Cerf was held at Engineer Academy in Stockholm and linked to DreamHack in Skellefteå.

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T O N I G H T · it’s beer slam night! And the contenders are:
Anchor Steam from San Francisco, California, USA
Born in 1896 · 4,8% alc./vol.
going a title match against
Breznak Lezak from, Czech Republik, EU
Born in 1753 · 5,1% alc./vol.
Review at Beeradvocate

This is a Swedish Beerotica production 18+

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T H E · F U T U R E · of input to computers will be holographic keyboards.

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Plastica - "Y Y ME" (all-toy Rush YYZ Tribute) - Click here for this week’s top video clips

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T H E · L I G H T S · T U R N I N G · O F F at the opening of world's largest digital festival in the main D hall at 4 PM. New laser show this year, a gigant disco ball, the Northon tower, several rock concerts with Sonic Syndicate etc. Visit the Stockholm edition of DreamHack in August.

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T E S T I N G · several tools for Twitter management. Scroobler, Twazzup and Monitter are my favorites for live real time Twitter searches and monitoring. The Twitter Stream Graphs has been discussed by IT researchers that haven't found it very useful.

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A N · A P P · F O R · T W I T T E R · that makes it pussible for your cat to twitter with friends and followers on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Learn more about Cat Twitter

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D A D A · I N · B E R L I N · with Die Skeptiker, Germany's Dead Kennedys.
On Myspace

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T U R N E D · T H E · L I G H T S · O F F · at 08:30 and lighted some candles instead.
World Earth Hour

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W A T C H · California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger opening speach
Worlds biggest trade show for technology with 5.000 companies on location in Hannover.

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R E L E A S I NG · N E W · A L B U M · 4:th March. The album is named Sju (Seven). Producer is Torsten Larsson from Stonefunkers and producer of Soundtrack of Our Lives. The album is recorded in a special studio in an old house at Olles house lot. May I call Olle a swedish Lou Reed. A strong honest much emotional documentary movie filmed longitudinal under three years, about Olle and his life, could be watched on SVT-play. Learn more on myspace/olleljungstom

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T H E · S C H L A G E R · M E T A L I S T S · The Poodles are comming to Vällingby Design City to perform in Kfem Fashion House Stage. Be there and take a close look at some italian shoes simultaneusly, but don't trow them on the lads in the band. Visit Poodles web

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O N E · O F · T HE · W O R L D ’ S · greatest film festivals starting today. Watch the livestream. Press conference 14:40, opening 19:45.

Photo: Maharepa at Flickr