The freedom to make decisions in life is something essential. It might be even so basic so that people don’t realize the real value of this human liberty unless the freedom of deciding themselves, voting for instance, is taken away from then. Please, go vote, even if you have the feeling that nothing is happening [...]

Amazon.com: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle With Guitar: Windows & Macintosh: Video Games.
Usually this time of the year I would spend a large amount of time in front of a Playstation playing video games with my host brother. He’s in the lucky position, since he possesses a Wii, Playstation, Game Cube, Nintendo something [...]

While Austria is still failing to ban smoking in closed public places (like restaurants, bars, etc.), California state law already restricts smokers. Probably for the first time, Austria came first in banning something that CA had allowed until July 1, 2008: Driving and Talking (on a cellphone) or Talking (on a cellphone) and Driving.
Safer Roads [...]

The ÖVP (right wing) demands new elections and jumps off the coalition board with the left-wing SPÖ. Here is a quote of an ORF article on the reliefing news that the drama finally came to an end today. One question, what have ÖVP and SPÖ done so far? Right, they only kept fighting about who [...]

Schuster Bleib Bei Deinen Leisten (Cobbler, stick to your last) - Skiing, that is.
In opposition of my actual decision to declare my blog as a Euro 08 free zone I will now elaborate on the attempt of enforcing national pride in all of Austria. Being the co-host (next to Switzerland) we are automatically qualified and [...]

American teenage subcultures are featured in the majority of American teenage movies. As a result, teenage movies are loaded with stereotypes. We’ve seen American Pie, we’ve watched Mean Girls and most Europeans love to watch American TV productions. You name them. Shows and movies dealing with teenage troubles automatically are set in a world that [...]

 Quests we’ve been sent on by higher power
Lower Austria, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of the Red Cross KTW X. Its mission: a nine-month-patrol of the “galaxy.” To seek out and contact all alien (sometimes, it seems really alien to urbanized individuals) life or at least the one that is [...]

Obviously, starting a blog post to encourage the broad readership of today’s hip blogs is the newest things on the block, so here I am, going for it!
Ask a question - and by that I really mean any question - you always wanted to have answered by me (and not Einstein, so please spare me [...]