If the GOP wants to win big on election day, it’s going to have to do everything in its power to keep minorities from voting. But as The Onion rightly points out, its voter suppression methods are in drastic need of modernization. That doesn’t mean the jokesters can’t conjure up VoteRite, a fictional app that’s tailor-made for disenfranchisement. Luckily for democracy, the GOP’s dream app doesn’t exist yet. More »
Wouldn’t it be great if cars ran off of compost? That’s not the topic of a TED Talk, but, sadly, that small nugget of an idea is all you would need to to be granted the freedom to pontificate before an audience of naive dreamers at a hokey conference. Welcome to The Onion’s first TED Talk parody. It’s incredible. And its best line just happens to sum up everything that’s annoying about TED in one little sentence: “I’ll be your visionary, and you do the things I come up with.” More »
TED Talks! What was once a proud educational lecture series long ago descended into a smug parade of increasingly ridiculous ideas. They’ve never been more ripe for skewering. Thank goodness The Onion noticed. More »
Far too often, it seems like companies are just throwing jargon out at consumers, hoping to provoke awe. Sometimes, you have to wonder if a company even understands the technology it spent millions developing. More »
The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of terrible, ill-conceived and unnecessary personal projects”. Yep, pretty much. More »
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