Satire

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The Onion Just Invented My New Favourite Fake Site

6:40AM October 21, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

A quick browse of comments on the internet will do more to destroy your faith in mankind than watching an hour of commercial TV news. The Onion’s answer? A site that’s built specifically to lure moronic commenters. It’s satire, yes, but it’s also an idea that needs to happen now. Like right now. Please? More »

Geek Out

Why Comic Sans Is So Darn Funny, Scientifically Speaking

4:40AM August 27, 2011 | Brian Barrett

If there’s one thing every last one of us can agree on, it’s that there’s no text more fun-loving that Comic Sans. And if you don’t believe me, maybe science will sort you out. Well, The Onion science, anyway. More »

Entertainment

So Maybe Dropped Calls Aren’t That Bad After All

2:00PM June 2, 2011 | Brian Barrett

I get it, you’re tired of your iPhone dropping calls. Heard it, lived it. But in light of the WHO report that mobile phones are maybe sort of kind of a little bit possibly cancer-causing, Funny or Die suggests that’s maybe that’s not the worst thing? More »

Online

The Onion Profiles A Little Town’s World’s Largest Website

11:00PM April 29, 2011 | Brian Barrett

TheWorldsLargestWebsite.com, located in the centre of town and featuring thousands upon thousands of long, scrolling pages of text and images, is an impressive computer-age curio. But to the people of Sunnyvale it’s much more than just a roadside attraction: It’s a point of pride – and an economic boon – in a corner of Silicon Valley that has been all but forgotten since the late ’90s.. More »

Computing

Why The Unemployed Need MacBooks

12:00PM April 20, 2011 | Brian Barrett

What is it that the unemployed need more than anything to get back on their feet? The Onion’s panel of experts (mostly) agrees: Apple products. More »

Software

The Onion Should Develop The Next Version Of Microsoft Word

12:00PM March 20, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Oh, Onion. Sometimes your satire cuts so deep that it comes out the other side as near-fact: “Microsoft Word Now Includes Squiggly Blue Line To Alert Writer When Word Is Too Advanced For Mainstream Audience.” [The Onion]

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The History Of Twitter As Ken Burns Would Tell It

12:20PM March 17, 2011 | Brian Barrett

As Twitter celebrates its five year anniversary, what better way to mark the occasion than a Ken Burns-style satiric documentary featuring Soulja Boy? None. There is no better way, the end. More »

Science

The Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium Enrichment

8:20AM February 18, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Kids these days. Take your eye off ‘em for half a second, and they’re back in the lab enriching uranium to sell to rogue states. The Onion takes a hard look at the gateway science that’s ruining our children’s future. More »

Gadgets

Tech Cynicism Has Never Been So Hilarious (Or Sadly True)

12:40PM December 1, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Tech is great! Tech makes everything better! Except when it doesn’t, as depicted by the extremely funny, brilliantly sick comics of Andy Rementer. His comic, Techno Tuesdays, paints technology (and those who use it) rather morbidly. But he’s sorta right? More »

Software

An iPhone Fart App Release History

2:40AM September 18, 2010 | Brian Barrett

The ever-clever McSweeney’s takes a look at 12 releases in the life of an iPhone fart app today. It’s satire! But scary how close it hits to home: More »