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What started as a hostage situation with an elderly man armed with a machete, has ended in massive car fires and destruction of property by protesters in Husby and its neighboring suburbs. It is uncertain whether the unnamed man shot by the police was a direct threat to them when they entered the apartment. He [...]
The Blogroll is Broken — Add Your Blog Below
8, Apr 2013Well, I decided to do a little housekeeping on the site. Besides fixing a lot of minor issues (indexing attachment pages and page# urls), I noticed my blogroll page is dead. That is because Feevy, the site I used to aggregate all the blogroll links and sort them by latest post, is dead. Completely dead. [...]
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Swedish Department Store Opens Pandora’s Box with “Normal Sized” Mannequins – We Think It’s Awesome
19, Mar 2013This past week you all have probably heard about the normal size models Åhléns department store put up. First, it is in Åhléns Malmö and not in H&M like many news channels are saying. Second, everyone in the world has made it a huge deal except Sweden. And third, this is real and not a [...]
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Why Lost in Stockholm Exists… And Why I Write
6, Feb 2013The most popular (or infamous) article on this site is the “10 Things I Hate About Sweden.” Somehow, people take it so personally that it mandates a comment filled with insults, hate, or name-calling directed to me. And they believe that this entire blog exists to hate on Sweden. If that is the case, then [...]
Snömaggeden 2012 – Be Safe When Traveling
5, Dec 2012If you ventured out today, you probably noticed that the whole city is blanketed in white. And by blanketed I mean, you have no visibility to your feet. SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological Institution has issued a class-2 warning and predicting another 10-20 cm of snofall in the region. Please be careful when traveling outside and [...]
Should LiS Start a Forum or Not
2, Jul 2012I’ve been debating for a long time whether to start a forum on the site. A lot of articles here end up on tangential discussion because there isn’t an appropriate spot to have it. I thought of creating a forum where all of you could post questions about life and dating, post notices, and sell [...]
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On Wednesday, you will receive a pack and fun filled newsletter about Sweden through the Lost in Sweden – Moosletter group. The newsletter is aimed at bringing you, the reader, snippets of the best articles about Sweden from bloggers. There are two ways to participate: 1. Be a blogger. Want to get more traffic and [...]
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Updates & Happenings 6.5.12
5, Jun 2012I’ve been offline most of the week because my best friend A and I went to Budapest. Hungry in Hungary! Bahahahaah… I love Europe because it is amazingly easy to travel through. There are lots to tell and zillions of photos to share. If I am a good blogger, I’ll put together a couple posts [...]
Stockholm Decides to Consider, Maybe, Possibly Fining People for Cigarette Littering – Half Win
23, May 2012Two weeks ago, the Moderaterna Traffic and labor commissioner in charge of sanitation in Stockholm, Ulla Hamilton, wrote an op-ed piece in the newspaper Aftonbladet about cigarette littering {cigaretfimpar} and the need to curtail butt litter. Basically, she wrote littering is bad and that the city needs to pass a law that both makes it [...]
Hej bloggarna! I’m really excited to announce a new project I have been working on to make life and visiting Sweden more awesome. Drumroll please… …! It’s called the Lost in Sweden Moosleter. I know there are so many of you fantastic bloggers out there. But, it’s hard keeping track of everyone and following through [...]
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