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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