Updates 2 April 2008

Today, I've added new pictures. One photo for each day for the dates 2-21 February 2008.

I've added a bit of explanatory text to 27 January 2008.

I swapped the puzzle picture for 29 January 2008 with one of my own pictures, with a different cut, and I edited the text.

Yes, yes, I'm aware that the posting date doesn't fit - that's because I've been fiddling around with the dates to get a chronological order and to get the blog archive tree to look tidier.

21 February 2008

More tube train ads. Here, one of the Swedish commercial TV channels has chosen to display an ad on the doors of a tube train. They will start showing new episodes of Stargate and the text reads 'The gate opens Fridays at 21:00' (hours). And when the doors slid open, you did actually enter 'through the gate'.

20 February 2008

In Stockholm (Sweden) the advertising agencies can hire advertising space on the tube trains. In this case, Interflora had hired an entire wagon.

4 February 2008

This is, by far, the oddest graffiti I've come across. What it says? Ice cold Russian archeologists. And in a very neat hand writing too.

2 February 2008

This is a picture of an Amnesty poster against female circumcision - subtle yet telling.

1 February 2008

Join earth hour - turn off your lights for one hour on 29 March 2008 8-9 pm!

31 January 2008

Not my picture this time either, but one from an Austrian stationery deliverer.

I love it! I got one at work, and I absolutely love it!

It sits very comfortably in your hand, like scissors. It removes a staple with one swift squeeze - and best of all, it makes no damage at all to the paper you are removing the staple from!

While I was googling for an online picture, I came across what I think is the gadget that this one originated from: surgical skin staple removers. Now, it makes perfect sense that you'd want the removing of staples to make as little as possible and preferrably no damage to the skin, right? So why not apply the same technique to an office tool?

And yes, I confess - I'm an office gadget freak!

30 January 2008

Jigzone dot com is a puzzle site I use practically every day whenever I feel like taking a short break. You can even use a picture of your own to create a puzzle, which is what I've done here.

16 January 2008

Papa Louie Help Papa Louie fight the mutant pizzas in over a dozen worlds of Italian cuisine.

Play this free game now!!

Warning! Might be highly addictive!

No, this isn't one of my pictures - it's from a site with loads of fun little games.

Beware though, since I suspect it's from the Miniclip site that Tradedoubler and Doubleclick were downloaded to my laptop. I found and erased them with the help of Spybot.

I also enjoyed playing Sandman, Sushi-Go-Round and Phantom Mansion from the same site - games where you need to think a bit.

15 January 2008

Railway Nostalgia

Looking around at various railway stations, I've noticed that several of them still haven't been modernised.

But I think I actually prefer the old designs to the modern ones...

12 January 2008

Normal sized mannequin in the window of one of the major department stores in Stockholm, as opposed to the far more common slim mannequins.

9 January 2008

While I was rummaging through old pictures, I came across this one that I had completely forgotten about.

This ghostly face showed up on the screen of my old computer every now and then, and I found it eerie - I checked my computer for any similar image, but never found anything to match it.

5 January 2008

Somebody had gone through a lot of effort to saw out the man in this road sign - a sign of steel high up enough to require something to step up on in order to reach it.

It amused me every time I walked past it until, one day, it had been replaced with a sign without hole.

As one of my Internet friends said... 'creative vandalism'!