A hero amongst men
via @jaredbkeller
Just a reminder that heroes live forever, but legends never die
Friends don’t let friends register parody accounts.
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Honestly, The Onion will never let us down.
Ever.
And The Onion wins everything.
(via The Joy of Tech comic… because somebody has to make fun of our new computer overlords.)
Secretly dream of this happening, as much as we like Apple.
Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself (via Laughing Squid)
This is us without the glasses, honestly.
The Chris Matthews Show has a pretty interesting take on Romney’s campaign, based on this amusing parody of the perceived Oscars frontrunner. The silence from the audience is more deafening than Mitt’s own silence. Chew on this, internet. (ht Charlie Warzel of InTheCapital)
“Today is gonna be the the day/Wikipedia’s gonna close for you/By now you should’ve known how/Jimmy Wales was gonna screw you fools/I can’t believe that anybody acts the way you do/About research”
“‘F*@& me’, the words are in the tweets/Of the kids who all ignored the news/Not sure you’d heard of it before?/This blackout against SOPA’s rule/Didn’t you see the giant message plastered on the page/For ‘Mountain Dew’?”
“And all the time I have to work is fading/And all the tools I have to search are missing/There are many things that I/Would like to find tonight/But I don’t know how”
“And you say ‘maybe/I’m gonna play a game/or something/’cause after all/I’m a slacker, y’all’”
This article sucks
Today in ripping apart articles without realizing it’s “The Onion.”
Meet Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Dictator”: The Huffington Post has a photo and early trailer up of Cohen’s new character — who appears to be halfway between Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi — and early results appear to be magnificent. Cannot wait for this.
Surprisingly, this isn’t an Occupy post: Do you think Ryan Gosling was robbed of People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” title this year? Well, these protesters do, too. Our pals at BuzzFeed started a whole petition to promote Gosling to his rightful place. Today, protesters met outside of People’s NY HQ with chants, signs and masks. We are the 99%, indeed. source
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I’m totally aware that it’s satire. But it’s spreading through the Internet and people’s blogs and where it’s coming from is getting left off and it’s looking like a news story.Robin Bowen of the California Parenting Institute • Discussing how an Onion story, “Study Finds Every Style of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults,” has created a hilarious side effect where many people think the story is true, and are sharing it without attribution. It got so bad that the institute had to put out a press release denying the story. “The falsified study quoted in The Onion states that all parenting styles lead to the same outcome—unhappy, miserable adults,” the release said. “We have been around a long time because we know that parent education does work.” This isn’t the first time an Onion joke has gone over poorly, and it won’t be the last, but at least this time, it’s relatively innocuous. source (via • follow)
The Onion’s take on Steve Jobs: A thing of beauty. (via Percolate)
imwithkanye asks: What are your thoughts on #OccupySesameStreet? Does the meme help or hurt the overall cause? And should a meme like this even influence the discussion at hand? Thx!
» SFB says: I admit I found the Twitter meme funny, but I think at the same time, it has the effect of softening the overall discussion, in good ways and bad. I think we need to be careful not to trivialize the idea of this, but on the other hand, if Occupy Wall Street needs more attention, this is a way to get it. — Ernie @ SFB
When people reach a point when they are in so much pain they just can’t stand it anymore, it was like being drunk. The ability to hold information was really impaired.Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Snyder • Describing his team’s findings — that really having to use the bathroom creates an effect on drivers similar to driving drunk or on limited sleep — at the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize awards ceremony Thursday. Snyder’s bladder-busting team (who won for medicine) was only one of many to get awarded for their weird or dubious honors, including that crazy Lithuanian mayor who used a tank to prove his point about illegal parking (he won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize), a Norwegian group that produced a useless study on sighing (psychology), and a group of Japanese researchers who created a fire alarm that uses the smell of wasabi as its key alarm agent (chemistry). All in all, a pretty Ig Nobel night. source
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