Best of Austria #2
Let’s just get it out of the way now shall we?
Month: September 2008
Hänsel und Gretel [de]
Three days to go to the elections in Austria, so here’s the first of a series of posts to bring you the best of Austria and German language culture. We’ll start with the phenomenal Otto Walkes. Even if your German …
End of the World Postponed
Until at least next Spring… The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The incident on 19 September caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the …
Do you want cute?
We can do cute…
Sunday’s excitement in Austria
Two days ago I was sat in a coffee house in the middle of Austria, reading the Sunday papers as they did their best to present an analysis of what the country could expect in its final week of electioneering. …
Standing by the Faithful
Let me interrupt my holiday just to bring you this quote (which may very likely have read elsewhere) “In the United States, although someone may be charged with an offence, they have a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Any …