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I’ll be back early next week, I hope, with a couple of voluminous posts on the New England Patriots and especially the team’s offensive line. I’ve been busy with being busy the past few days and I will probably remain in that state for another few days. But all good things to those who wait, [...]

Jen Stewart is looking for one to visit in October and welcomes recommendations. I can’t help her myself because I’ve barely even been to Maine, but perhaps you can?

IKEA hacking is what geeks call it when they repurpose furniture from IKEA, for example by turning the shelf Gorm into floor planks. Ingenious stuff. One should not, however, hack the foodstuff one can purchase in IKEA stores. In particular, one should not mix Löfbergs Lila coffee with Starbucks coffee, because the resulting beverage is [...]

Swedish daily newspaper Sydsvenskan reports that a minor brawl involving a dozen people broke out in a sauna at a community gym in southern Sweden when a group of men in their 30′s asked a group of teenagers to take off their swimming trunks in the sauna, as tradition bids, which led to verbal and [...]

I’m back from a nearly two-week long vacation in the Pacific Northwest, mostly Washington state. Here are a few impressions, some of which I might elaborate on sometime: – There’s far more traffic in Washington than I had ever imagined. The Seattle area resembles Route 9 during rush hour. – People don’t speed much in [...]

The lovely Jen Stewart spotted an unexpected fast-food product while vacationing in the South (well, in Virginia, at least).

Swedish soccer fan. Co-incidentally, the guy’s rooting for a team that’s currently employing Charlie Davies, a former Boston College soccer player. I just wanted you Eagles fans to know that.

It’s so bogus to tell me to get a job if I have nothing. Slackers revolt against hippie ethics, and local hippies fight back (while one Marin County hippie likes to keep Haight-Ashbury as slackerish as possible to feed his need for a “bohemian vibe” fix). Via Michelle Malkin.

1) Be a hot blonde Swede. 2) Marry a rich American. 3) Hire a nanny who’s also a hot blonde Swede, but much younger. 4) Let nature take its course. 5) Ka-ching!

American flag at Jury’s Hotel in Dupont Circle in Washington D.C. 2005. Not a bad view.