Celebrating the first Metallica gig in Finland back in 1984: Metallisika tribute.
Back in the eighties the up-and-coming bands had to settle for lesser arenas, hence the future multiplatinum artists played in Tarvasjoki, a definite middle of nowhere up in ostrobothnia.
Long Play is the first finnish “slow journalism” site. It was opened last week and the premiere story is on corruption in football (mainly finnish football, but odd characters abound nonetheless).
Their earnings model is per-story, but there’s no proper webstore or reader application yet. Right now Elisa Kirja sounds like the best payment option (fortunately there is a dedicated app in the works).
The worst elements of finnish vocabulary have been uncovered.
And the worst are indeed terrible, but some of the terms listed are just normal words.
Jaxuhali, the winner lazily combines a hug and wishes to withstand something into one horrible portmanteau.
How come no-one mentioned Kasper Strömman Design Blog before?
He takes a sarcastic view on Finland and on finnish design. With a daily posting schedule.
Today’s Fingerpori featured a surprising guest star: Jouko Piho, a quasi-famous “prophet”, whose blog at Uusi Suomi is often too painful to read.
He seems to have taken the strip rather well, after all, it is by no means a mean one. So there’s little danger to have it disappear from the archives (thus far just one strip has been censured).
Boardgaming Finland delivers what it promises: a look at the domestic boardgaming scene.
With pictures.
Pertti Jarla, my favorite finnish comic artist has started a blog.
Despite expectations, it is not full of verbalic fireworks, but commonplace observations.
I’m sure the swedish yellow papers are full of excuses, and Mats “Invincible” Sundin is suddenly not available for comments.
Let’s see how graceful losers the dear neighbours turn out to be.
FIN – SWE in the ice hockey world championship final.
The winning goal from yesterday’s semifinal game against Russia is well worth watching again and again.
Alphadesigner’s maps on stereotypical views of Europe. Finland comes off as the land of Nokia on most. Except the Vatican’s view.
kaisarastimo.info, because people need to know how little clue our councilmen have.
According to a Newsweek article Finland is the best country on earth.
Yay. Recognition that once again builds on top of the Pisa study, showing finnish schoolkids to be the best educated. But who’s counting – this may be the sole victory of the year for the nation (yes, in addition to two orienteering gold medals, that is).
When the laws fail, new ones are thought up on spot (in finnish only).
I’m pretty sure the suspect confiscation verdict will be overturned when actual lawyers get involved, this case is as weak as they get.
Thanks to Janne, the sad state of internet-savviness of the finnish green party is now on the table. Or the utter lack thereof.
I’m sure Jyrki Kasvi, whom I could now (following the move to Espoo) vote for, is not happy with the state of affairs.
And unless Kaisa Rastimo’s cluelessness is reined in, the vote for the greens remains just a prospect, not reality.
Finland had less than an auspicious start in the ice hockey world championship games in Germany.
A decisive 4-1 loss to Denmark (not exactly a hockey powerhouse to say the least) means that the two remaining games in the group stage have quite a bit more importance.
Until Finland got its first medal (a silver) in the Calgary olympics in 1988, the medals chronically avoided us, as Tekno-Kekko’s thorough analysis proves.
Next up: Germany on Monday evening. Germany, who managed to beat USA in their debut game in the tournament, so the bout is by no means a walk in the park.
Finnish authorities have launched nettivinkki, a red button service to inform of unsavoury content on the web.
Too bad the service has an invalid security certificate.
Google’s Streetview has expanded to cover Finland. The image have been taken last summer, so the country is fortunately not seen in its full November glory.
The HQ is visible, without any suspicious activity outside. Quite unlike what happened when Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s house was photographed.
Failbooking provides adequate evidence to despair about the future of humanity (at least the socialnetworking subspecies).
Domestically, the major storm of misunderstanding caused by a sarcastic column has approximately the same effect.
I thought the annual showing of Disney’s Christmas greetings was a Finnish phenomenon.
Nope, according to an article in Slate, it’s even bigger in Sweden.
Suomensuojelija isn’t, despite its patriotic name, nothing more than a blog about the finnish language, and saving it from careless use.
According to Nomen est Omen, an award-winning data-mining product, my family name is 100% elite.
Mainly based on rarity of the name, I guess.
Lehti requests a link, and I comply: there’s no better place for kansalaisjournalismi in Finland.