Tag: Sweden
TorrentFreak (TF) is reporting that The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest torrent network, has been raided by Swedish authorities. The torrent news site began looking into the situation this morning when users noticed the site was down for the first time in months. At first it was believed to be a technical glitch, but TF says […]
Every year, the Swedish Language Council chooses a set of new words to be inducted into the nation’s language, like a more official version of what Merriam-Webster does for English. This year, the words included köttrymd (fleshspace, the awesome Swedish version of IRL), brony (which means exactly what you think it does) and tårtgate (cakegate, the […]
They’re Swedish as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore. The student-populated Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden has a tradition. Every evening at 10pm, they commence with the “the Flogsta scream.” It’s some sort of a communal primal scream therapy, or possibly, a remembrance ritual of a 70’s student suicide. Whatever it is, it’s […]
