Pastafarian Niko Alm Wins The Right To Wear A Pasta-Strainer On His Official Austrian Driver Licence Photograph...

Wearing the pasta strainer is an integral part of my Pastafarian religion says Austrian driver Niko Alm, a self confessed athiest.
Niko belongs to the international Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light hearted US based faith whose members adhere to the dogma that no dogmas be allowed in their religion. Friday is evidently their holy day.
The Austrian authorities initially required Mr Alm to obtain a doctor's certificate to show he was psychologically fit to drive.
Good on you and your fellow believers Niko.
We need to celebrate the small victories.
No matter how tiny or weird they may be...

Seven International Architects Design Some Weird Bus Shelters For The Austrian Village Of Krumbach...

The little Austrian village of Krumbach with a population of around a thousand decided to boost it's tourism numbers.
So they commissioned seven architects from Belgium, Russia, China, Chile, Norway, Japan and Spain to design some innovative bus shelters along its local bus routes.
The results are possibly more eye stopping
than bus stopping...

Conchita Wurst. Certainly The Brightest Star At The Austrian Life Ball 2014...

The winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst was certainly the brightest star at the annual Life Ball 2014 held in Vienna a couple of nights ago.
The Life Ball fighting Aids and celebrating life is Europe's largest annual AIDS charity event.
Party-goers dressed in little more than body paint rubbed shoulders with men in tuxedoes and cross-dressers in wild costumes on Saturday, transforming Vienna's City Hall
into a fantasy land.
As in previous years, the Life Ball was also an anything-goes gala emphasising diversity.
And Conchita Wurst stole the show.
Hoots of approval, applause and whistles greeted the bearded drag queen dressed in figure-hugging silver lame, as she belted out her winning torch song "Fly Like a Phoenix."
Minutes later, formally clad VIP guests holding $1,000 tickets began streaming inside the neo-gothic hall for a night of noshing, dancing and champagne-filled revelry.
I was going to be there but had nothing to wear...