We have received a wine delivery from Systembolaget, Sweden’s state-owned retail alcohol monopoly. This was extraordinary, but it also reflects the company’s twin missions, to sell alcohol, while at the same time discouraging people from buying alcohol. Home deliveries as…
Category: Sweden
Netflix eclipses HBO, Amazon surrenders
Americans dream of being able to access quality TV programming without a cable subscription, and Scandinavia has been the testing ground for the coming services. There have been definate winners and losers here. Netflix has emerged as the victor. HBO…
EU Wants Sweden to Review EU-mandated (?) FRA Law
Against the background of the PRISM revelations, European Parliament News reports: Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee will conduct an “in-depth inquiry” into the US surveillance programmes, including the bugging of EU premises and other spying allegations, and present its results…
Opponents of Gay Marriage Don’t Understand What Marriage Is
I’ve written about this before, but in the light of the US Supreme Court striking down the Defence of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and the recent demonstrations against the legalization of same sex marriage in France, it needs…
Flawed Apple TV update
Here’s the way the Unofficial Apple Weblog describes the update: Apple announced today that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available on the Apple TV. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said that “HBO GO…
Report from the cord-cutting front
We’re officially cord-cutters now. Actually, we technically cut the cord at the beginning of the year, when our Comhem cable TV subscription ended, and we had actually stopped watching the cable programs way before then. What we’ve had since last…
“The United States Supreme Court has done all that it can to make this situation worse”
Your browser does not support iframes. Harvard Law Professor and Internet activist Lawrence Lessig took part in a panel discussion on corruption and democracy in Lund tonight. He was in the southern Swedish city to receive an honorary doctorate. The…
It snowed this morning
The Bus That Went off the Map
I had an amazing bus adventure this morning, my local bus taking around eight of us on an off the route tour. Stockholm is experiencing what is called “snow chaos”. It snowed so heavily yesterday most buses were cancelled. After…
Human rights: Sweden vs Ecuador
Is Julian Assange’s new best friend Ecuador a paragon of freedom, compared to Sweden, which he and his followers denounce? On its website, the American-based Committee to Protect Journalists writes: Ecuador not fit to champion free expression The Quito government’s…