Online

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

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..


April 20, 2011
Computing

Why The Unemployed Need MacBooks

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.


April 2, 2011
Software

The Onion Releases Its Real iPad App On The Day That Everything Else Is Fake

In a tremendously fitting move, The Onion has released its native iPad app on April Fool’s Day. Now you can get your fill of stories, images and videos—from both the web and the TV show—on non-existent happenings from America’s Finest News Source. It’s free and up for grabs now. [iTunes]


March 15, 2011
Geek Out

The Sad Truth About The Recession

The Onion speaks more truth than it would care to admit, as always:


February 26, 2011
Online

How An Adorable Pig Could Take Down The Internet

Oh, how I love the Onion! It constantly creates fantastic nightmare scenarios detailing how the world as we know it could be destroyed—or in this case, how a cute piglet could take down the Internet.


February 18, 2011
Science

The Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium Enrichment

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.


February 11, 2011
Computing

The Onion Reveals Apple’s Worst Case Scenario

With Steve Jobs on an extended leave of absence, what’s the worst that could really happen at Apple? As in most things, I prefer the The Onion‘s take. [The Onion]


December 4, 2010
Entertainment

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The World’s Worst We Are The World

These celebrities are not singers. In many cases, they’re barely even celebrities. But it’s the 25.75th anniversary of “We Are the World,” gosh darn it. Tributes must be made!


November 20, 2010
Entertainment

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Videos: The Ghostbusters Are Kind Of Dicks


November 13, 2010
Entertainment

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Joad Versus The Potato

Joad Cressbeckler Fears Genetic Modification Causes ‘Wrath-Minded Taters’There’s crotchety, and then there’s Joad Cressbeckler, possibly the Onion News Network’s funniest recurring character. Here, he tackles the tough question of genetically modified crops—with a knife.