There is a movement afoot on the streets of Helsinki to celebrate creative personal style.
“Hel Looks” is simple but engaging. They feature photos and short comments from people on the street, a glimpse into the fashion lives of Helsinkiians (Helsinkites?). I really enjoyed devouring the site. Not to say that there isnt some serious [...]
It doesnt happen often, but it does happen. I am stricken with a case of tech lust so intense that it makes me a little ashamed. How DO you justify a thousand dollar phone? “I want it” isnt really enough for me to convince myself. But wait, there’s more!
My current phone (the Nokia 6101, [...]
Wow, how disgusting. Yet strangely not unfamiliar .
Some student archaeologists from the UK uncovered a 6,000-year-old globular remnant of birch tar chewing gum at a Neolithic site in Finland.
“Most likely the lump was used as an antique kind of chewing gum,” said Sami Viljamaa, an archaeologist who led the dig near Oulu, some 380 [...]
Pam Anderson and I have something in common–but it is not the way we look in a bikini. Turns out her grandfather is from Finland and she recently visited there with her father, and wrote about it in her online diary:
“I will have a summer home there one day and plan on going back every [...]
One of my missions in life is to taste every product made with a mouth-watering substance known in Finnish as salmiakki. I usually explain it to my American friends as “salty black licorice” but that description in no way does justice to this undeniably acquired taste.
Anthony Bourdain said something about all cultures having that one [...]