Category: Iceland

New cell phone app designed to prevent incest in Iceland

On By A.P.In Book of Icelanders, Cell Phone, Human Behavior, Iceland, incest, Technology1 Comment

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A new cellphone app touts itself as a way for Iceland’s singles to avoid sleeping with relatives — as the isolated country’s small population of 320,000 means most people are related. The acquaintances just have to bump their phones together and it tells them instantly if they’re family. Three Icelandic engineers designed the app with the help of the Book of Icelanders that contains data from 720,000 people born in Iceland.

News of Iceland says, “Everyone has heard of (or experienced) it when someone goes all in with someone and then later runs into that person at a family gathering some other time. This new app might just prevent such awkward moments.”

Its slogan: “Bump the app before you bump in bed.”

The app is available for Android phones and will be available for iPhone soon.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2013/04/18/20753176.html

Meat pies in Iceland tested for horesemeat, and found to be free of any meat

On By A.P.In horsemeat, Iceland, Kjartan Hreinsson, meat, meat pieLeave a comment

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When officials in Iceland began hearing about horsemeat being secreted into beef products around Europe, they decided to run tests to ensure the same thing wasn’t happening in Iceland.

Icelandic meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson says his team didn’t find any horsemeat, but one brand of locally produced beef pie left it stumped: it contained no meat at all.

“That was the peculiar thing,” Hreinsson said in a telephone interview Friday. “It was labelled as beef pie, so it should be beef pie.”

Hreinsson said it appeared to be some kind of vegetable matter. He said the mystery pie was traced to a firm in western Iceland and the case had been handed to municipal authorities.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/01/wrd-iceland-horsemeat-meat-pie.html

‘Missing’ woman in Iceland unknowingly joins search for herself

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A woman who was reported missing from an Icelandic tour unwittingly joined a search for herself.

According to the Reykjavik Grapevine, a woman described as “Asian, about 160cm, in dark clothing  and speaks English well” was listed as missing Saturday near the Eldgjá volcanic canyon in southern Iceland.

A search continued through the weekend with reports saying she got off a tour bus and never returned.

It turns out the woman merely changed clothes during the bus stop, and after she returned, those on the bus didn’t recognize her.

When the description of the “missing” woman was circulated, apparently the lady who changed her outfit didn’t recognize the description of herself. So she joined the search party.

About 50 people searched the area in vehicles and on foot, and a helicopter was ready to assist.

Eventually it occurred to the “missing” woman that she could very well be the person everyone was looking for, and she promptly reported herself as safe and sound to police.

The search was called off early Sunday morning.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/missing-woman-unknowingly-joins-search-herself-165249353.html