Ed Parnells' Interesting Links

Important

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:42:27 +0100

European MEPs from Greece, the Czech Republic and Germany have submitted a declaration opposing ACTA, the secret copyright treaty that is the first piece of global Internet law to be negotiated in private, without participation from poor countries, the public, or the press. Now they have 90 days to get their fellow MEPs to sign onto it, and if they make it, the opposition will be formally adopted by the European Parliament.

If you're a European, please write to your MEP (contact info here) and ask for their support for the "Written declaration on the lack of a transparent process and potentially objectionable content concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) from - Zuzana Roithova (CZ, EPP), Stavros Lambrinidis (GR, S&D), Alexander Alvaro (DE, ALDE) and Françoise Castex (FR, S&D)."

Hello!

ed — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:25:21 +0000

Welcome to my list of stuff. Stuff I found interesting. Enjoy.

Video Kitchen

ed — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Cool. As kitchen things go. Can you be cool in a kitchen?

Oxford Clay

ed — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

This is pretty damn cool. Oxford Clay is a funny and wry look at dinosaurs coming to the conclusion the end is nigh.

You can find more at Oxford Clay.

East Bunny

ed — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:00:00 +0100

I am insane now.

The 50 Most Stressful Colleges

ed — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:00:00 +0100

From the Daily Beast

As admissions letters hit mailboxes—and amid growing concern about mental health on campus, The Daily Beast looks at which schools are the biggest pressure cookers.

Kids who aim for top colleges know full well that this month's stress over which envelope—-thick or thin—is only the beginning. And in recent weeks, concerns about the pressure cooker environment on some campuses have escalated. At Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., there have been six confirmed suicides this academic year, including two on successive days last month. Last week, Cornell installed chain-link fencing along many of the bridges that cross the gorges on campus, serving both as deterrent and a physical reminder.

Really. Enough wih the toilets

ed — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100

From CBS

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100

OKLAHOMA CITY (CBS/AP) In these cash strapped times, almost anything goes. In Oklahoma, a woman has pleaded no contest to ...

Tampon-makers can't mention the V-word. Period.

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0100

What? Censorship gone nuts.

The Monsterous Toilet

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:38:10 +0100

Ready for take off

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:32:32 +0100

With the Shuttle fueled and up and about, NASA have again published an interesting diatribe on why this is important. Well, actually, yes, it is important. We need to know how to cook pasta in space.

Old Spice

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:24:22 +0100

Well, like you don't smell or nuttin'

You can enjoy more chiselled men talking about armpit hygiene here.

When WOULD Anyone Like Gwyneth Paltrow?

ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:26:21 +0100

Indeed.

Rachel Maddow

ed — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, always interesting.

Rachel Anne Maddow (pronounced /ˈmædoʊ/; born April 1, 1973) is an American radio personality, television host, and political commentator.^[1]^[2] Her syndicated talk radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, aired on Air America Radio. Maddow hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC.^[3] She was also a guest host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Race for the White House. Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to be hired to host a prime-time news program in the United States

Ghost Army

ed — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0100

The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission within the Army to impersonate other U.S. Army units in order to fool the enemy. From a few weeks after D-Day, when they landed in France, until the end of the war, they put on a traveling road show, using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, phony radio transmissions and even playacting. They staged more than 20 battlefield deceptions, often operating very close to the front lines. Their mission was kept secret until 1996, and elements of it are still classified. <more>

Pay TV

ed — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Ahhh. Again. The Sequel.

ed — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Ahhh. Again.

ed — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

All Quiet

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:00:00 +0100

Months after getting stuck in the Martian dirt, a NASA rover has stopped communicating with its controllers here on Earth.

The space agency said late yesterday that its Mars Exploration Rover Spirit did not make a communication session that had been scheduled for Tuesday. Scientists expect that the robotic machine has entered into a low-power hibernation mode, where most functions are ended to conserve valuable, and dwindling, energy. MORE

Ahhhhh

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Funny Sports

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0100

Funny Sports Bloopers!! - Click here for more blooper videos

1Mb of RAM

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:00:00 +0100

It’s true! NASA’s space shuttle is controlled by a computer running on only one megabyte of RAM. How is this possible? Since the space shuttle and all its hardware is over 30 years old, so is its computer. The current computer is actually an upgraded version of the 500-kilobyte computer that was used until 1991, but still based on the same outdated technology from the 1980s.

Hardly The Terminator

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0100

It folds clothes.

Addition Fail

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0100

Pac Moon

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0100

From DailyCamera

The Vagina Booking Logs Couple busted after girlfriend accidently shares revealing pic online

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0100

heh heh. I can't add anything to this

Buyer beware.

Onion Yesterday

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Should they report the real news for April Fools?

I am not Brian

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Honestly. I am not.

The trouble started when Raj Patel appeared on American TV to plug his latest book, an analysis of the financial crisis called The Value of Nothing.

The London-born author, 37, thought his slot on comedy talkshow The Colbert Report went well enough: the host made a few jokes, Patel talked a little about his work and then, job done, he went back to his home in San Francisco.

Shortly afterwards, however, things took a strange turn. Over the course of a couple of days, cryptic messages started filling his inbox.

"I started getting emails saying 'have you heard of Benjamin Creme?' and 'are you the world teacher?'" he said. "Then all of a sudden it wasn't just random internet folk, but also friends saying, 'Have you seen this?'"

Three's enough for any woman...

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Got to be Florida

ed — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Police said a 15-year-old driver drove a car into the entrance of a Titusville convenience store early this morning, smashing a gas pump along the way and causing thousands of dollars in damage. MORE