Parody Website Fools The Washington Post Into Thinking Sarah Palin Heading To Al Jazeera
The Daily Currant is an evil site. Unlike The Onion, it’s just realistic-looking enough sometimes that it fools people. It hides the statement that it’s satire on a secondary page just to catch people like this.
Blink-182 Made Fun of One Direction 11 Years Before They Existed | BuzzFeed
Buzzfeed wins today’s “Keeping Blink-182 Relevant” competition.
Obama: ‘Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness’
Thank you, The Onion.
Introducing: Super Modern Mario Bros! One die-hard fan of everyone’s favorite Italian plumber created video depicting what he thought SMB’s trailer might look like if the game was making it’s debut at E3 2012 (For more visions of what a modern-day Super Mario Brothers might look like, see here and here). source
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
This seems like a not-so-subtle attempt to remind people that for all those Web-centric services out there, the local news was first. Our favorite part is when they pull out the Skype. (Thanks Charles Apple for bringing this clip to our attention.)
The creator of this new classic has earned a full-on scornful reaction from Glenn Beck, who says that it’s “some of the best well-made propaganda I have ever seen.” And it is well-made. We disagree on the propaganda part. We think it’s less an attempt to attack Beck and more an attempt to make us question the political climate as a whole. Beck is just the easiest example of how this works. There’s no reason the creator couldn’t have used Hannity or Maddow or anyone else, left or right. The point is not simply the message, but the way that one hears and instantly accepts the message. To us, all this clip is saying is to remain skeptical of and diversify your sources of information. Just for sake of contrarian value, here’s the D.C. Examiner’s take, which is essentially that we should be questioning the politicians, not the talk-radio blabbers. source
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