Review: Livet är ett äventyr
This is a collection of short stories by Staffan Heimerson, a renowned Swedish journalist. Many of the episodes are downright hilarious, such as the hunt for Bin Ladin in Falun and his road trip on the Karakoram Highway.
Posts from year 2011
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Hultsfred the zombie festival
Hultsfredsfestivalen is the annual event that died last year but somehow got resurrected by the Scorpio necromancers to once more lay waste to the shores of lake Hulingen. Since the Arvika festival was canceled a few weeks ago, this is one of the few places left in Sweden for large outdoor festivals.
Review: The Terminal Man
This is the story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri and why he lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle airport for 16 years. The movie The Terminal from 2004 was based on his story, but the movie script is a bit different from the book.
Review: Full Circle
The BBC travel shows with Michael Palin are among the most well-produced mainstream narratives out there. Many of them are also available in book format, such as this one. Full Circle describes a lap around the Pacific Ocean, a quite original itinerary.
Review: Anatomy of Restlessness
Bruce Chatwin had a very unique touch to his storytelling. It often goes from simple dialog to pondering philosophy in less than a few sentences.
Content overdrive
Historically there has been always been a steady increase on connectivity. This has led to all sorts of innovation and progress.
Review: On the Road
On the Road is the classic tale from 1957 where Jack Kerouac and his buddies from The Beat Generation travel in a haze of weed and caffeine across America. It’s considered to be one of the definitions of Beat literature and remembered as a big influence on writers and artists.
The Google age
What do you do if you want to know the birth date of Abraham Lincoln? You most likely “google” it. A few seconds later you know the answer and a lot more about the president. But a mere fifteen years ago, we probably looked it up at a library or in a dusty encyclopedia book.
Storage and data overload
Each day, an estimated 100 billion clicks are made on the web due to 55 trillion links in HTML pages. That amount of links almost match the synaptic wiring of the human brain, but unlike the brain, the web double its capacity every two years.
The wave of social media
Social media has conquered a large chunk of our lives in a very short time span, and one of the driving forces has been the arrival of the smartphones.