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Of Sausages

I am, as you might have noticed, quite partial to meaty business. Like pork roast. Or ham. Or sausages.This weekend I managed to get my hands and mouth on

Augustin in Vienna - Eat well, lounge well

Augustin in Vienna - Eat well, lounge well

While I am very much into cooking my own food, going out and enjoying what others have cooked up for my consumption is something I’m very fond of as

Beef Jerky Land

To the ones who know my taste for meat in all its variants, it may not come as a whopping surprise that I'm fairly partial to beef jerky. You know, that dried meat that's either loathed or loved. But there's a slight problem. While

Atheist Bus Campaign in Vienna - or not

After starting in London and then spreading to various other European Cities, the Atheist Bus Campaign is a private-sponsor funded project created to make people aware of the rather high probability that there is indeed no god: Photo by benteka/Flickr The campaign created

An unholy marriage

People would think that people learn from mistakes. People are mistaken. About an hour ago, the Socialist Party’s head Gusenbauer announced the finalization of coalition talks with the People’s Party. Even though the SPÖ had the majority after last year’s elections,

That time of the year again

I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard pressed to find better things to do on the 1st of November than hanging out with friends at the cemetery and then devouring a gargantuan Schnitzel at one of the best places for

BREAKING NEWS - sort of

Well, here’s to me, and all the other people whose final votes brought the Greens to third place. Read all about it here (if you know German…if you don’t, look at the pictures, they tell the story too). There are still

In which I return to my newfound love of coming up with descriptive titles, totally breaking the layout of my site, and write about the outcome of yes

So, here we are. The hegemony of the People’s Party is finally over. Yesterday more people voted for the social democrats than for Chancellor Schüssel and his unrelenting neo-liberal stooges. Which is a good thing. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a

In the garden

Today was exceptionally sunny, unfortunately I missed half of that exception by sleeping well into the afternoon. That’s the sacrifice for depriving my body of sleep during most of the week. I took a few pictures of my parents’ sunshine induced garden. Click

Dubya (final)

So Dubya’s gone, and I won’t even pretend I was any good at covering it. The relevant things about the visit have been said by others who are more articulate than me. I’ll resort to showing you a picture (taken from

Dubya

From whitehouse.gov: On Wednesday, June 21, the President will start his day by greeting the staffs of the various U.S. Missions in Austria, followed by a meeting with the President of Austria, Heinz Fischer. The President will then have a bilateral meeting

SOS ORF

Since I’ve done my share of ORF bashing on here (for the uninitiated, ORF is Austrian’s national broadcaster), I’m glad to announce that I’ve had the opportunity to sign an online petition that demands better and less politically motivated programming.

A trip to Graz

I met my parents in Graz yesterday. Graz is Austria’s second largest city, but it’s really a lot smaller than Vienna. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I hadn’t noticed the last few times I’ve been there (which, I

Public Restroom - enhanced

Austrian art-group gelitin will open their first large-scale exhibition tomorrow in the Kunsthaus Bregenz, here in wonderful little Austria. Avid Boing Boing readers will know them for their giant rabbit. One of the highlight’s will be a free-of-charge installation on the ground floor.

Austrian Institute of Idiocy

The current Austrian government has been extremely negligent regarding education in general, and the universities in particular. Various cutbacks and the treatment of universities as privately operated entities have left everything in shambles. Now, I don’t know what people in the rest of

Smoking criminals

I know, I’m not smoking anymore, so I shouldn’t really be defending the smoking folk’s case. But hell, what can you do when you read an interview like this? Since the whole thing’s in German, here’s an attempt at

On unprofessional thieves

After three years of being buried in a forest in Austria, the Saliera is back. I think it’s strange how unprofessional the thief acted during the last few days. I mean, he (and one or two more cat burglars) stole that piece in

Sleepless In Trains

I don’t have much to say today, so I’ll just post a few pictures I shot inside the sleeping compartment when travelling back to Vienna. It was by far the ruddiest compartment I had ever slept in. Which, when used to Austrian

Porno Viennese

Well, Austria’s made international headlines again. In the course of a government sponsored art project which lasted all year, posters were put up all over Vienna depicting the lower torso of a woman, wearing nothing but panties displaying the logo of the EU.

Irving arrested

David Irving, self-proclaimed historian and Holocaust denier was arrested on the 11th of September November (of course) here in Austria. Read all about it here. Well, it’s great they got him. Especially because he was on his way to talk to members of

Dawn of the Dead (actually, afternoon)

Although I don’t usually honor national holidays the way good citizens of Austria tend to do, that is, by going to church and wondering if that’ll still be possible once those darn immigrants have installed their own churches, mosques and whatnot, I

First Austrian podcasting platform - NOT

In yesterday’s [Daily Source Code](Daily Source Code), Adam Curry said something to the effect that podcasting was created because people were fed up with what mainstream radio had to offer them. Incidentally, today I saw a commercial for something the overexcited voice

On the intricacies of high finance

Tomorrow is Austria’s national holiday. In case you don’t know how that came about, it’s the day when we’re supposed to commemorate the signing of a treaty including the law of permanent neutrality (and a few other things). Since the