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Science

Oslo Is So Good At Recycling That It Has Run Out Of Rubbish

Norway’s capital city has a serious waste management issue — they’re way too good at it. Half of Oslo’s 1.4 million residents rely on a steady stream of refuse to power their appliances and heat their homes. Problem is there just isn’t enough rubbish to go around.

9 April 2013

Geek Out

This Coiled Cultural Centre Could Be The Guggenheim’s Long Lost Cousin

This spiralling building is the proposed design for a cultural centre in Norway. Look familiar? It reminds us of a stripped-down Guggenheim Museum.

25 January 2013

Geek Out

I Want To Get Lost In This Room Of 8064 Floating Lights

Getting lost in a forest of trees sounds like a lot of fun but then you realise things like bugs and wildlife and poison ivy exist. Not so fun anymore! What’s guaranteed to be fun is to trap yourself in a cube of floating lights — 8064 LEDs to be exact.

17 January 2013

Entertainment

An Epic Train Ride Across Norway Through All Four Seasons

To celebrate the Nordland Railway’s 50th anniversary this year, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (or the NRK to the locals) has created an epic 10-hour documentary capturing the country’s northernmost railway route that connects the cities of Trondheim and Bodø. But going above and beyond the call of duty, the filmmakers actually recorded the route four different times at the peak of every season.

2 June 2012

Geek Out

Norway’s Selling A Super Villain Starter Set

You can’t very well take over the world from your parent’s basement, now can you? No, a proper arch-nemesis needs a sufficiently intimidating hidden base. Luckily, Norway is selling off its defunct Olavsvern Naval Submarine Base for a $US17.5 million pittance.

9 November 2011

Geek Out

The Loveliest Boat House On The Fjord

This breathtaking boat house makes me want to move to Norway and buy a boat. Or maybe forget the boat and just move in.

4 November 2011

Gadgets

Norway’s Not The Best Place To Live For Gadget Fans

A UN report out today states that Norway’s the best place in the world to live right now, with Australia coming in second. I love a bit of competition and appropriately placed national pride. We may be marginally second, but if gadgets are taken into consideration, we’re clearly number one.

27 September 2011

Science

Chasing Norway’s New Stealth Cruise Missile

This is the Naval Strike Missile, Kongsberg’s latest and greatest cruise missile, as it skims over the Pacific Ocean before tearing into its target on the far side of an island.

28 July 2011

software

Oslo Killer Was A Microsoft Word Fanatic

In his 1500-page manifesto — spammed to one thousand people more than one hour before the massacre — Norewegian killer Anders Breivik devoted pages and pages about how to read his deadly boring tome, including why he chose Microsoft Word:

News

Oslo Killer Emailed Plan To More Than 1000 People

That bloody bastard Anders Breivik sent his plan to kill people in Oslo and Utoya to more than one thousand people at 2.09pm local time, one hour and 17 minutes before the first explosion. His deadly spam even had an attachment.

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