Interesting Links for 29-08-2013
- So, What’s It Going To Be? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Dark, tongue in cheek, but makes its point quite effectively
- "You ended up in the Twelfth Plane of Torment on your way to the kitchen?"
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2013
- Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out | Danger Room | Wired.com
'How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe? The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force, as evidenced by all of the pieces of Death Star littering space. But of all the Empire’s failures, none is a more spectacular military fiasco than the Battle of Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back.'
- PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator
- Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
'in the span of 14 months, the high school junior underwent a staggering metamorphosis from a young girl with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations into a truly stunning commodity.'
- Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity | Fruzsina Eordogh | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
'Finding yourself at the centre of a meme sensation should be lucrative – but a Berlin lawsuit shows fame doesn't always pay'
- Politwoops - All deleted tweets from politicians
So, what are they changing their minds about…
- There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US
- Neil Gaiman on Alan Moore's life
- A Parliament without transparency has no accountability | Unlock Democracy
There's a push for the MEPs to have a secret ballot on whether they accept the EU budget. Doesn't that make them unaccountable to their constituents?