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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

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L A N G U A G E · E X P E R T · comic strip author, video game designer etc. has been interviewed in swedens biggest newspaper Aftonbladet today. Sippan is the manager of the upcomming puzzle game OCD.
Learn more in Aftonbladet Wendela

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T O · S T O C K H O L M · first time ever. World’s biggest LAN-party normaly located to Elmia in Jönköping, is on tour and will attending the Technical Museum in Stockholm in the Winter Vaccation week from 21 Februrary.

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W I T H · N E W · C U B A S E · 5.0 presented by Steinberg at recent NAMM 2009 music instruments trade show in Anaheim California. Visit NAMM Show
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3 .0 · P R E S E N T E D · at game developers evening at Swedish Game Awards 20 January at the Student Unions House at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Now it’s more simple than ever to create videogames with a more abstract programming and straigt forward production methods on the Microsoft Xbox 360 platform
Visit the XNA Creators Club

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W O R L D S · L A R G E S T · digital education and eLearning event with expo and conference held in Olympia western part of London City from today wednesday. The tag line is “Learning Creatively Through Technology” The opening speach will be held by Mr. Jim Knight Minister of State for Schools and Learners. Lego Education will be represented at the fair, with their flagship concept Lego Mindstorm.
Learn more on bett show

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G A L A · E V E N T · with award show monday 12 January in Stockholm. Master director Tomas Alfredson’s “Låt den rätte komma in” (Let the right one in) a vampire horror movie settled in Blackeberg Vixton Vällingby received 5 Gullbagges (gold betles).

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I N F L A M E S · E L E C T E D · at the annual Grammis Award 2009, the swedish music industry show held in Stockholm. The nominee in the metal class where: Opeth, Sabaton, Millencolin, Inflames, Messhugah. Learn about Inflames latest studio album “A Sence of Purpose” on wikipedia
Visit Grammis

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M A D E · F U N · T E S T · on AQ a Asperger test. I got 21 categorized as an average male or female computer scientist