Testers accepted for new ‘twinning’ site
TellMeTwin.com, a new website that offers to find user’s personality ‘twins’, is inviting people to take part in its Beta testing stage before the sit...
Culture
Information and news on culture, music and the arts in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Riotous ringtone is a real gas
Following the truck driver’s protest that ended in violence on Wednesday 23rd April, the Icelandic nation has been looking at itself in a slightly dif...
Icelandic Prime Minister welcomed in Canada
Iceland has become a surprising middleman between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Premier of Newfoundland, Danny Williams. Geir Haarde,...
Swedish government funds feminist porn
The Swedish government plans to fund pornography through a series of cultural subsidies valued at SEK 350,000 according to reports in The Local, a Swe...
Britain pays dearly for Euro sarcasm
With just 23 days to the big off, Eurovision fever is already gripping the people of Europe – and none more so than Terry Wogan. The BBC’s veteran Eur...
Fiscal frustration flowers: daffodil duty disputed
Representatives of Norway’s Grimstad Planteskole horticulture centre have sent a letter to the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture, Terje Riis-Johansen,...
Nordic users left with blank DVDs
A new format of DVD has been successfully introduced in Scandinavia and Iceland as well as in several other European countries. Movies are now being o...
A holistic approach to violence in Sweden
Stockholm has been swept by the storm of a new sport known as Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA. According to The Local, MMA is the ‘fastest growing sport in...