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Finnish Spitzer Sends 200 Sex SMS to Exotic Dancer and Her Sister

An SMS-savvy Finnish Foreign Minister has joined former New York governor Eliot Spitzer in the "thinks with the wrong head" club this week. The 60-year-old Ilkka Kanerva was discovered to have sent more than 200 text messages to an exotic dancer named Johanna Tukiainen, 29. And her sister! Despite the fact that Kanerva's longtime parter said she's not bothered by her man's wandering eyes (or should that be fingers?), people are still calling for a resignation. More below. More »

2:00 PM on Sun Mar 30 2008
By Jack Loftus
13,085 views, 33 comments

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Amazing Finnish Dorm Room Tetris in Video What do you get when you combine the largest student dorm in Finland, a cellphone, and a love of Tetris? Something that's way cooler than the Russian monochrome equivalent. Video after the jump.

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Nokia 800 Robot Dog the Brainchild of Finnish Schoolkids

This is what happens when a forward-thinking cellphone giant gets together with a bunch of its future potential customers &mdash a robot dog made from an N800. The children at a Nokia-funded school in Finland came up with this idea of having an internet tablet that doubles as a pet. [YouTube via Crave]

10:11 AM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By AddyDugdale
4,307 views, 10 comments

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It's Legal to Break DVD DRM in Finland

Do you hear that sound? That's thousands of nerds cheering loudly, then coughing uncontrollably, then reaching for their inhalers thanks to a court ruling in Finland that rules CSS protection for DVDs ineffective. Why does this matter? Because under Finnish law, cracking DRM is only illegal when it's "effective," and CSS has become so ineffective that it's no longer illegal.
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2:20 PM on Fri May 25 2007
By Jason Chen
5,355 views, 12 comments

Mio to World: France Moved
If you own a Mio GPS product, you might want to pull over for directions. Because according to their website, France moved to Finland. So who gets to be France??

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Book Comprised of All Text Messages Coming to Finland

A new book is being released in Finland that is comprised only of text messages. Yes, 332 pages of texts, complete with obnoxious abbreviations and misspellings for authenticities sake. More »

10:11 AM on Thu Jan 25 2007
By Adam Frucci
533 views, 9 comments

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Sexy Finnish Prime Minister Dumps GF via Text Message

Finland, land of Nokia and mobile phones aplenty, seems to have an inappropriate love of text messaging that goes all the way up to the head of the state. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (shown above totally hitting on German Chancellor Angela Merkel), apparently known as "Finland's Sexiest Man," dumped his girlfriend (that he met on the Internet, no less) via text message. Slighted ex-girlfriend Susan Kuronen says "Matti dumped me in a text message, where he said 'that's it.'" Cold blooded, Matti! More »

4:06 PM on Fri Dec 1 2006
By www.gizmodo.com
1,421 views, 11 comments

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