Posts from year 2011
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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.
Hultsfredsfestivalen back from the dead
Hultsfredsfestivalen was supposed to be dead. Last year it flatlined, another casualty in the long list of festivals that discovered nostalgia doesn’t pay the invoices. But then, in true horror-movie fashion, the corpse twitched.
Review: The Terminal Man
Some books are best read in the place where they happened. I first opened The Terminal Man while waiting for a flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
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
There was a time when finding out Abraham Lincoln’s birthday required actual effort. You’d walk into a library, hunt down an encyclopedia that smelled faintly of dust, flip through hundreds of pages until you found the answer.
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.