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Finland First Country To Establish Broadband As A Legal Right
1:32AM Jesus Diaz | Finland! Not only do they have good universal health care—including dental—and free daycare and great public education at all levels, but now they also got broadband as a legal right provided to every citizen. And not any crappy broadband. More »
Design
6:40AM Adam Frucci | See this chair? It is designed with the comfort of your genital in mind. Don’t believe me? Just listen to a no-nonsense Finn describe its advantages over close ups of comfy, comfy balls. More »
Finnish Chair Has One Priority: Your Balls
6:40AM Adam Frucci | See this chair? It is designed with the comfort of your genital in mind. Don’t believe me? Just listen to a no-nonsense Finn describe its advantages over close ups of comfy, comfy balls. More »
Science
Spiderweb Solar-Wind Sail Proves Jor-El Was Right
12:15AM Wilson Rothman | Laugh all you want at the sea-urchiny ship Jor-El used to send Kal-El to earth, but it looks a lot like the new kind of solar-sail array developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Instead of the standard solar panels, the Finnish scientists propose long thin strands, just microns in diameter, that stretch out from the spaceship, and use a positive charge to repel heavy positive ions in the solar wind that move at hundreds of kilometers per second. More »
Press
Finnish Spitzer Sends 200 Sex SMS to Exotic Dancer and Her Sister
5:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | An SMS-savvy Finnish Foreign Minister has joined former New York governor Eliot Spitzer in the “thinks with the wrong head” club this week. The 60-year-old Ilkka Kanerva was discovered to have sent more than 200 text messages to an exotic dancer named Johanna Tukiainen, 29. And her sister! Despite the fact that Kanerva’s longtime parter said she’s not bothered by her man’s wandering eyes (or should that be fingers?), people are still calling for a resignation. More below. More »
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