Stort designpris till SVT Play
SVT Play belönades med Svensk Forms prestigefyllda pris, Design S, på tisdagskvällen. Prisutdelare var kulturminister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.
Juryns motivering är bland annat Banbrytande stilbildare som starkt fokuserar på nytta och snabbhet. Ett bra exempel på snyggt formgivna tjänster av hög klass, avsedda för mass-spridning.
Priset går till SVT och webb-byrån Doberman som [...]
The Pirate Bay saved by political allyAargh, a filesharers life for usBy Rob CoppingerTue May 18 2010, 05:03SWEDEN'S PIRATE PARTY is now providing bandwidth for the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay after its previous Internet service provider Cyber Bunker pulled the plug due to a court injunction obtained by US movie studios.The Pirate Party's leader, [...]
Major upgrade for Spotify
11:58 7th May 2010
Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service, has rolled out a series of new features that will make it function as both a media player and a social networking tool.
Users now have the option of incorporating songs from their own computers, including directly from Apple's iTunes, into their playlists as [...]
Sustainability and Swedish Fashion: A New Website and a New Exhibit
The first time I blogged about sustainability and fashion for this site, I was writing from Sweden. That trip – just four days of reporting in Stockholm – was the first step in a journey to define sustainable style, a subject cloaked in mystery. For [...]
Svenska Bouleförbundet – Gothenburg Spice Bangers gick äntligen hela vägen – Newsdesk
Gothenburg Spice Bangers gick äntligen hela vägen
2009-07-25 13:58
I damklassen var Göteborgsdominansen närmast total. Tre av fyra semifinallag härstammar därifrån. Och det var Gothenburg Boule Bangers som spelade allra bäst. Efter att ha slagit ut de regerande mästarna från Åstorp i sin semifinal besegrade de [...]
Ett reservat styrt av maffian – Kultur & Nöjen – Sydsvenskan – Nyheter dygnet runt
Ett reservat styrt av maffian
Av JOHANNA KARLSSON
Publicerad 26 juli 2009 6.00 | Uppdaterad 27 juli 2009 13.49
De är Sveriges främsta ambassadörer för explosiv house. Sydsvenskan har träffat dem på deras kolonilott. Ett samhälle helt uppbyggt kring dansmusik. Ibiza.
Klockan kan inte vara [...]
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Swedish director set for spy film
Swedish director set for spy film
Tomas Alfredson
Let The Right One film has picked up several international awards
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, best known for making acclaimed vampire movie Let The Right One In, has signed up for his next project.
The award-winning filmmaker will direct a movie [...]
Swedish man follows in his father’s footsteps
Swedish man follows in his father’s footsteps
Elder Giske here in 1968 as an exchange student
By FLYNN ESPE
The East Oregonian
PENDLETON – Gustav Giske has quite the weekend ahead of him. After traveling from Pendleton to his home country of Sweden, the 19-year-old will barely have time to recover from jet [...]
What’s On: week starting Friday, June 5 – County Times
What’s On: week starting Friday, June 5
Published Date: 04 June 2009
WHAT’S on in Powys and the surrounding area over the next seven days.
Friday, June 5
* FIRST EXPOSURE, new photographic exhibition by local student Rosie Turner on until June 29 at the SpArC gallery, BISHOPS CASTLE.
* CELEBRATING [...]
From Haydn to Henry VIII with drums thrown in… – County Times
From Haydn to Henry VIII with drums thrown in…
The Gregynog Festival/Gwyl Gregynog, until Sunday, June 21
Published Date: 11 June 2009
THE Dufay Collective, one of the UK’s finest early music groups, will mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne when they [...]
June 16, 1959: George Reeves, Superman, Felled by Speeding Bullet | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
June 16, 1959: George Reeves, Superman, Felled by Speeding Bullet
reeves1959: Los Angeles police arrive at the home of 45-year-old actor George Reeves, famous for his role as TV’s Superman, and find him naked and dead of a gunshot wound [...]
Western Sweden and Gothenburg…literary hot spots. We’re talkintravel.
Western Sweden and Gothenburg…literary hot spots. We’re talkintravel.
June 9, 7:49 PM · Add a Comment
Here’s the latest news release from the Swedish Tourism Office. We’ve spent time in Western Sweden, especially Gotenburg. It’s a great town with a the main train station perfectly located in the [...]
Jenny Lind concert is June 25 at Playhouse on the Green
Jenny Lind concert is June 25 at Playhouse on the Green PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Barnum Festival will present a concert with the American and Swedish Jenny Lind winners on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m., at Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport, 177 State [...]
Sweden Star Mattias Bjarsmyr In Link To Celtic (from Evening Times)
Sweden star Mattias Bjarsmyr in link to Celtic
TONY MOWBRAY has been linked with a move for Sweden’s Under-21 captain Mattias Bjarsmyr.
It is believed the soon-to-be-announced new Celtic manager has already passed on a list of signing targets to Parkhead chief executive Peter Lawwell.
The IFK Gothenburg [...]
Letter from Sweden: Gustavo in Gothenburg | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
Culture Monster: All the Arts, All the Time
On Thursday night, for the first time in his career, Gustavo Dudamel conducted Verdi’s grandly operatic 90-minute Requiem here with the Gothenburg Symphony. Afterward I visited the 28-year-old conductor in his modest dressing room in [...]
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P1: Series announces new Scandinavian round
Racing series BOAT
Date 2009-05-21
Powerboat P1 IS Scandinavia-Bound
As the Powerboat P1 World Championship moved on from its opening race at the Grand Prix of Malta and readies for its next race, Istanbul, Turkey, June 19-21, the organization officially launched the countdown to the August 7-9 Scandinavian Grand [...]
Volvo releases free racing game | The Car Tech blog – CNET Reviews
Volvo releases free racing game
by Antuan Goodwin
C30 in Volvo: The Game
Aside from the S60, players can try a variety of historic racing Volvos, such as this BTCC C30.
(Credit: SimBin/CNET)
Here are two words that most people never think to string together in one sentence: [...]
Spiral Notebook: Fun for all the family – Wharf
Spiral Notebook: Fun for all the family
By Giles Broadbent on May 3, 2009 1:27 PM |
Giles Broadbent is killing time
When I’m feeling down and pointless – but not quite down enough to warrant something reckless like booze or self-harm – I play a little game to pitch [...]
New Blood: The Gothenburg Address :: The Skinny
New Blood: The Gothenburg Address
Written by: Ewen Millar
Published: Tue 28 Apr 2009
Music
19:00PM, Wednesday 06 May 2009
Cabaret Voltaire, 36-38 Blair Street, Edinburgh
More info
The Gothenburg Address support Amusement Parks on Fire at Cabaret Voltaire on 6 May and play the Skinny Dip at The Bongo Club, Edinburgh on 28 May.
A [...]