The F-word
A while back, writing about the crisis in Ukraine, I made a reference to the notion of “Finlandization”, and mentioned that it’s a Cold War era term that Finns might well “bristle at”, if indeed you could detect the sometimes stony-faced Finns bristling at anything. Well, some “bristling”, some seri ...
iPhone 6 goes on sale in 22 new countries
While customers in the U.S. have been playing with (and bending) their iPhone 6 devices for a week now, today marks the sales debut of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in 22 secondary markets. These include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherland ...
Gender and sexuality (LGBTQ+) resources in the library
It Gets Better http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ “THE PLEDGE: Everyone deserves to be respected for who they are. I pledge to spread this message to my friends, family and neighbors. I’ll speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it, at school and at work. I’ll provide hope for lesbian, gay, b ...
Vesa-Matti Loiri; Ivalo (2006, Warner Music Finland CD)
Vesa-Matti Loiri; Ivalo (2006, Warner Music Finland ), kuvat Julius Mauranen, Petri Eklund, kansi Tommi Levy/ Mainonnan Työmaa Suhteeni Vesa-Matti Loiriin on viime vuosien aikana kasvanut hurjasti. Turhapuro oli Turhapuro ja se kuului lapsuuteen ja nuoruuteen. Siitä oli helppo tykätä tiettyyn pistee ...
Nightwish To Set Sail On Fan Cruises
As part of Nightwish's 2015 world tour, the band will be taking part in two special cruises from Turku in Finland to Stockholm in Sweden. The Tallink Silja Line is organising these unique events for the 8th and 9th of June 2015. Each cruise starts at 7.30pm and returns at 6.05pm the next day. Fans w ...
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus invade many other markets today
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus may already be sold out in the first launch markets, but Apple on Friday is launching its 2014 smartphones in a second wave of countries. Customers in more than 20 markets will be able to purchase one of the new iPhone 6 models starting today either online or in local ...
Muga Harbour hosts discussion on Baltic LNG infrastructure
Over 150 specialists, investors and port representatives gathered on the 25th of September at the international LNG seminar to discuss over the development of LNG infrastructure in the Baltic Sea ports. The seminar, which took place in Estonia, in Muuga Harbour, was organized by Baltic Ports Organiz ...
Italy/Sampo/Work
Sooo, my week in italy was quite eventful. We had some fun days although it was kinda exhausting too. We intended to camp for a week near Pisa only 500m from the beach. First day the weather was great, sunny not too warm so we spent it at the beach before going to Pisa. Next day we went to a city I ...
‘Make a Plan’ | The WDC2014 Design Policy Conference
The ‘Make a Plan’ World Design Capital Cape Town 2014 Design Policy Conference aims to develop a policy that guides and encourages design thinking, investigates principles of action to encourage industry growth, feeds conversation and fosters innovation, not only in South Africa but throughout the e ...
With Undersea Cable, Europe’s Internet Races to the Finnish
Now it’s all about Angry Birds, exercise monitors and enormous undersea cables. State-backed Corenet Oy is planning to build submarine cable directly from Finland to Germany. At the moment data travelling along this route would have to go one of several ...
Nishikori, Gulbis roll into Malaysian Open semis
Nishikori fended off the only break point he faced, and broke Matosevic five times. The U.S. Open finalist will play Jarkko Nieminen of Finland for the first time for a place in the final. Nieminen took out Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3, 6-4 to reach his ...
Most men sexually interested in women in their 20s
"Men and women have different preferences regarding the age of their sexual partners and women's preferences are better realised than are men's," said researchers in psychology at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Men younger than 20 prefer women ...
'Angry Birds Transformers' Out Today In New Zealand and Finland
There is a growing trend to “soft launch” big apps before going global. Today Rovio launch Angry Birds Transformers in New Zealand and Finland before it comes to the rest of the world in October. The game takes the traditional characters from Angry ...
White nights in Finland’s Aland archipelago
AT midnight there is a long orange streak of sunset across the horizon and the colour of the sky is just past dusk. As we wait for the last ferry back to Helsinki, there are tantalising strains of nightclub music and the raucous, drunken, happy noise of ...
