In the spirit of 'why not?' (and because I have some Google Voice credits to burn), I called the number hoping to engage a Swede in some discussion about Weezer's new album. The results were disappointing. On my first attempt, I was connected to a Swedish man who rambled a bunch of very polite sounding Swedish noises into my ear. I asked if he spoke English, but then the line soon went dead. So I tried calling again. The second time, I had to wait a bit as a recorded message informed me that "a lot of people are calling Sweden right now." Obviously. When I did manage to get through to another Swede, the call quality crapped out, prompting a handful of broken "hellos" back and forth and not much else.

I never did find out what Sweden thinks of Weezer's White album... if they think it's as good as Pinkerton. But maybe one of you intrepid folks can spare the change and bridge that social divide.