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Spanish masses flood the streets in protest of upcoming austerity measures from the Spanish government. . . . Finnish masses flood the streets in protest of the newly voted bill to grant Spain another controversial "bailout" loan that goes against both the EU and Finnish constitutions. ...

Educational game "Queue" published by IPN (The Institute for National Remembrance) was chosen by industry experts as the "Game of the Year 2012". For the first time in the history of the title a game designed in Poland received the award. The game tells the story of the difficulties in shopping...

But not as much as I love Gin. . .

I had about ten videos uploaded between 2003-2005. Just a few months ago they worked fine, now all I get is this, on Firefox, Chrome and Opera. I asked my friends to try and it was the same for them. . My two newer uploads work just fine. Are the older videos gone for good or is this just a...

Nipwitz - Russia from Flatlight Films on Vimeo..

The first time I met ElGato, he changed my life. I was having a really bad day, down and out, and I didn't know if I could go on any longer. But then he stumbled into my life. Suddenly, the skies cleared and were filled with magical rainbows and a glorious sun shone down brightly and vividly on...

Artist Jani Leinonen and his partners in "crime" stole a statue depicting the fast food chain icon Ronald McDonald from a McD's in Helsinki last February. The prosecutor is charging Leinonen and his two accomplices with fraud and counterfeiting. . Before the heist, Leinonen had forged a...

Law is law, sin is sin, yet many people do this every single day in some form, be it malicious, for personal gain, trying to survive or just for shits and giggles, theft is all around us. For many years I used to steal Twix chocolate bars or other small and easily snatched candy from a...

We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we. The mapping of the human genome was completed early this century. As a result, the evolutionary log of the human race lay open...

Another "great series" thread. Peep Show is a British comedy show, full of dryness, darkness, bitterness and awkardness - completely hilarious. It's already into it's 7th season, telling the tale of Mark the office drone and Jez the struggling musician, two roommates who just can't seem to get...

"An 18-year-old man and woman were killed in last night's shooting incident in Hyvinkää. Seven were injured, and one of the injured is a 23-year-old policewoman in critical condition. The police caught the 18-year-old suspect early Saturday morning from the woods a few miles from the city...

Tuomas Ruuhijärvi is a member of the Finnish Pirate Party and against the obligatory military or civil service placed on Finnish men. If you won't comply with either, you will go to prison for six months. Here's a translation of his experience in jail, maybe some of you will find this...

Suing someone, or something, is a national pastime to a certain large group of visitors that this Canadian website sees every single day. Jokes are made about it, people rage, people defend actions or dismiss them completely. In the end, we're looking at suing through a very slanted lens -...

(Is there no watermark-free stock photo of a golden wheelchair?) . BRING BACK THE GOLDEN WHEELCHAIR! Devised by the "coolio" members of NS, probably mostly by J.D., this award was a weekly/monthly top spot for the most stupid/ignorant posts from the lovely community on any subject or forum...

Ah, the summer is here. Great smells and scents floating in the air all around us. But with the heat also the worst stanks rise to the surface and tickle your nasal cavities the wrong way. My favorite scent, as I once again noticed, is the smell of freshly cut grass, it's very endearing. A...

This is pretty great news. All parties of the parliament have accepted the changes to the constitution that will separate church and state in Norway, making Norway a secular state, dismissing the evangelic-lutheran church as the Church of Norway. The King will no longer appoint bishops, this...

Jani Kaaro is a scientific journalist, a researcher and encyclopedist, and he has some of the most insightful columns that I have read, time after time. I'm going to translate a few of his articles, if you have time and interest, check it out. -- Let's Fail Again! In the recent years, there...

Awww, shucks. I was looking forward to it. New Mayan Calendar Discovered That Doesn't End in 2012 . The Xultun find is the first place that all of the cycles have been found tied mathematically together in one place, representing a calendar that stretches more than 7,000 years into the...