2009 - Pontus Marina

Come join me at

http://saltsjo.posterous.com

2009 - Gisela

Saying goodbye…

Ha. I don’t feel THAT strongly about it, but for ME – it’s time to give it a rest. I started this blog back on April 28, 2006 to see what all the fuss was about. Now I know. And I’ve enjoyed it.

I had been laid off by Cisco shortly before that, and, besides the obvious fun of sharing… well… myself with y’all, I think it simply felt familiar to get up in the morning and sit here in my little home office and do the ‘work’ of preparing the blog post for the day. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life! Getting up and going to work; usually to an office job.

But now it’s time to move on. Of course, I’ll reserve the right to come back some day if I want. :)

I’d like to thank all of you who have been with me. I know that my liberal political views don’t sit well with some of you but you have hung in there… probably for the food photos, eh?!?

I haven’t investigated Blogger to find out what happens when you shut down a blog, and I’m not in a hurry to do that either. (I might leave it up for a while just so I can play Hang Man!) So I suppose it might sit there ‘dead’ for a while until I decide it’s time to bury it. Of course you can NEVER truly bury anything you’ve put out into cyberspace… :)

Meanwhile, I was thinking I’d leave you with some of my favorite links. I have thousands, of course. You probably do, too. But to whittle them down…

My favorites on the subject of…

• Aging – Time Goes By
• Architecture – BLDGBLOG and Architecture for Humanity
• Design – DigsDigs and The Design Blog
• Documentarian – Michael Moore
• Enlightenment – TED
• Environment – The Good Human and The Daily Ocean and The Infrastructurist and everydaytrash.com and Tiny Choices and cityofsound
• Food – locally it would be Anne’s Food; otherwise, no particular favorite. I look at SO many!
• Health – RealAge and Dr. Mercola and Skin Deep (cosmetic safety database)
• Infographics – Flowing Data and Cool Infographics and Information Is Beautiful
• Liberal politics - Crooks and Liars and The Nation and World Can’t Wait (I don't just LIKE these; I support them with cold hard cash!) :)
• Photography – Daily Dose of Imagery and The Big Picture
• Swedish News (in English) – The Local
• Technology – TechCrunch and the San Jose Mercury News
• Travel – That Perfect Place and World Hum

Personal Blogs

• LA Frog ” From Paris to Los Angeles : Musings of an expat in the Wild West”
• Lost in Stockholm

Webcams

• ”Stockholm, från Restaurang Gondolen vid Slussen - just nu! Webbkameror mot Riddarfjärden, Skeppsbron och Saltsjön.”
• Hawaii - Camera is located in front of the Duke Kahanamoku Statue on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii

Moving On

You’re always welcome to visit my little Posterous blog (which I expect to use like you would use Twitter, so, there could be more than 1 post per day – or none at all), my Flickr photos, and/or my YouTube videos.

Posterous blog

Flickr photos

YouTube videos

SO

I guess there’s just one thing left to say.

Welcome home, Jones Family! Welcome home!!

Oh sorry…
thought I was Ty Pennington for a minute there…

Thanks for hanging out with me!
Stay in touch.
You know how to find me.
nlind (at) telia (dot) com

Take care and

Stay out of jail!

:)

2009 - Alfhild Alva

He's a winner!: Hasse won a golf tournament yesterday. Yippee! He's winding down his golf season with some real good play!

Go get ‘em, Danny!: Collectively, Americans Abroad Are 21st Most Populated “State”

... the US State Department has released these estimates of Americans residing outside the United States who are not affiliated with the US military or US government:

• Western Hemisphere: 2,222,000
• Europe: 1,488,000
• East Asia and Pacific: 754,000
• Near East: 586,000
• Africa: 109,600
• South Central Asia: 97,000
• Total: 5.25 million

Fun Stuff

A little funny (thanks Bev): Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail? :)

• Open House This is so cool!!! Have a look!
• Ukelele Beatles Fun
• MindCipher “The social repository of the world's greatest brain teasers, logical puzzles and mental challenges.”
• Balloon Launch “The largest mass ascent of hot air balloons took place recently at the biennial Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons rally in Chambley, France. Pilots from around the world lifted off in 329 balloons on 26 July.” Oh, so gorgeous!!! Watch the time-lapse video! (I hope you can reach that without having to sign up.)
• Sign Language “Each week we {the Telegraph in the U.K.} present a selection of strange signs and bizarre translations from around the world.”
• An Amazing Example of Teamwork Incredible!
• Forvo “All the words in the world. Pronounced.” a multilingual pronunciation guide with audio by native speakers
• The Cheese & Burger Society Did you ever see so many scrumptious burgers?!?!? You’ll be inspired!
• Pattern in Islamic Art
• Ten things we don't understand about humans Like blushing, laughter, superstition, etc. Interesting.
• Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy by Moving to Remote Village (it’s from Onion, so you know they’re kiddin’ around)
• Top 10 Funniest Google Suggest Results
• Probably Bad News There’s usually something in there that’s good for a laugh.
• How to bake cheeseburger cupcakes
• Obsolete Technology: 40 Big Losers
• Physic Games (online)
• Perpetually self-winding mechanical clock Neat.
• Greenland Wonderful photos from Boston.com.
• Giant Waterslide Funny. (thanks RodH)
• U.S. Population Distribution by Age, 1950 through 2050
• Reburbia announces the winners of competition to redesign the suburbs
• Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
• Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind
• The Letter Repository a database of historical personal letters from the early 1700s through the 1940s
• Museum of Animal Perspectives “Collection of Remotely Sensed Wildlife Imagery” Some cool stuff in there!
• 50 Extraordinary and Attractive Billboards
• Creative Bento Lunches SO CUTE!!!
• Bald Head Tattoos Funny
• Antarctica – All Neat photos from a research team at Antarctica.
• In Flight
• CChronicles “Watch the history of computers” Love this.
• Help us solve a 175-year-old mystery “Help us solve the mystery of epsilon Aurigae, a star that has baffled scientists since 1821. You don’t need any prior scientific training — we will give you all of the tools you need to become a citizen scientist*.”
• CereProc Voices This is kinda fun to play with. Enter some text and then listen to it spoken by computer-generated voices with various accents. (Roger Ebert’s Finding my own voice)
• Apps for America: The Finalists (3 rather interesting finalists that might be worth checking out) GovPulse.us and ThisWeKnow.org and DataMasher

Videos

• PCCB - Le duo des chats
• Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
• Lewis Black on Broadway talking about how America ISN'T #1 (I think I love Lewis Black.)
• Supercentenarian “Bernice Madigan looks back on the past 110 years.”
• Kunstrad EM 2009 Carla und Henriette Hochdorfer Indoor Cycling from the Netherlands – OMG!
• Awesome DIY water rockets with drop-away boosters WOW! The ones where they have a camera attached and you see the earth moving away… that’s much like a nightmare I used to have over and over! I loved the going UP part but the free fall was kinda iffy. :)

CU tomorrow!

2009 - Justus Justina

SEPTEMBER CALENDAR

Sep. 1: While my brother started his new job in Dallas, TX this week, Hasse and I went into Stockholm yesterday for another taping of our favorite ‘music’ tv show - Så Ska Det Låta!

Photos

Video

The artists this time were:

Markoolio (always fun)

Benjamin Wahlgren
(He's a kid! And - he's a natural!)

2 of the women from Afro-dite
(sorry… not sure which two)

(Pssst! AND, there's a new gal in the band!
A violin player! You see the back of her here.)

Sep. 27: Last Night of the Proms – we’ll be there!


Misc. news that caught my eye

• Active U.S. Hate Groups - The Southern Poverty Law Center maps active U.S. hate groups (there are 926 +). Check out their map to see how YOUR state is doing. It looks like California leads the way with 84 hate groups; then Texas with 66; then Florida with 56. (Of course, those states have high population numbers, too.) It shows Iowa (my home state) with 6 Ku Klux Klan groups and 2 Neo-Nazi groups. Bummer.
• For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics - Quoted: "I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians. And I'm not kidding."
• Reduce Your Odds of Dying in a Plane Crash
• 90% of U.S. money is laced with cocaine - “U.S. and Canadian currency had the highest levels, with an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 percent, while Chinese and Japanese currency had the lowest, between 12 and 20 percent contamination.”
• Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why

Dr. Mercola on flu vaccines and also diabetes

• Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
• Swine Flu is NOT the Problem -- It is the Vaccine that May Harm or Kill You
• Mayo Clinic DEAD Wrong on Diabetic Recommendations - “If you listen to the “experts” on diabetes you will be digging yourself an early grave.”

The Local - Swedish News

Some of the Swedish news from August that might be fun or interesting:

Swedish men make the best husbands: study

{However… a bit of news that reminds us that young men can be idiots} Chlamydia helps young men feel more 'manly': Swedish study - Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows.

'Elk explosion' in southern Sweden - Hunters in the south of Sweden have reported an 'explosion' in the elk population in the wake of winter storm Gudrun that swept through the region in 2005.

Smacking kids is never acceptable: Swedish politician - Thirty years have passed since Sweden banned parents from smacking their children. But Liberal Party MP Helena Bargholtz is dismayed to learn that New Zealand is holding a referendum to reintroduce the practice.

'Chocolate is good for your heart': study - Eating chocolate two or more times per week strongly reduces the risk of heart disease for people who have previously survived a heart attack, new Swedish research has shown.

Sweden's Jerebko signed by NBA's Detroit Pistons - Swedish big man Jonas Jerebko was among three NBA Draft selections to sign for the Detroit Pistons on Friday.

Swedish school bans handshakes amid swine flu fears - In a bid to curb the spread of swine flu a school in Borlänge in central Sweden has forbidden teachers from shaking hands with their pupils.

Sweden to offer free swine flu vaccine for all - The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL) is set to recommend that the swine flu vaccine is issued free of charge.

Stranded Thai berry pickers on their way home - Some 200 Thai berry pickers left stranded in Sweden after staking their life savings to travel have had their return trips arranged for them through donations. The first of the berry pickers returned to Thailand yesterday.

Stockholm plays host to international laughter fest - Sweden's capital will this weekend welcome a host of international comedy stars when the very first Stockholm Comedy Festival opens on Friday.

Stockholm smokers hit with ban - Stockholm city employees will be ordered to stub out their cigarettes at work from May 1st next year as the city is the latest Swedish municipality to announce a ban.

Swedish archaeologists uncover 7th century ship - Swedish archaeologists have announced the find of a 7th century burial ship, the oldest of its kind to be discovered in Scandinavia.

CU tomorrow!