Stockholm has a great mass transit system, called SL, despite the annual problems when subway trains can’t handle the snow or the leaves on the tracks are the wrong kind for the commuter trains. But a few years ago, when…
Category: Sweden
eBookstores Not Ready for Primetime? No Nobel
Often when the Nobel Literature Prize is announced, I run down to the fairly large bookstore near work to see if they have anything by the new laureate in English. Sometimes they do, often the don’t. So I was looking…
Law and Order?
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1300&artikel=4020735 The day before the Swedish elections, “Konflikt” interviews a man who has to lie to the tax authorities because of his 500,000 kronor tax debt. He doesn’t want them to take his boat, his five cars, or his house…
Clueless TV Channels
Swedish television channels are amazingly clueless about how their viewers tune in. For years their attitude towards schedules has been disgraceful. If a program is supposed to start at a certain time, unless it is the news you can be…
Two Brilliant Videos Deconstructing the Racist Arguments Against Immigration
Part I Part II Sadly, only in Swedish. A translated version with English subtitles would be very powerful. The bottom line is that all the racists’ arguments that immigrants take jobs, live off welfare, are responsible for a (non-existent) increase…
The line waiting to buy the iPhone 4
…outside the Telia store, Fältöversten, Stockholm, 8:30 AM, July 30, 2010,
More California Poppies in Sweden
Who Wants an IPhone 3G
While other operators seem to trying to unload the iPhone 3GS, now that the iPhone 4 is happening, Telia is behaving weirdly. It seems like they are giving an iPhone 3G with a pay-as-you-go subscription. But who on Earth would…
Poppies in Sweden 2010
Poppies in Sweden 2010, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Last year’s bumper crop sowed so many seeds it looks like they’re here to stay!