August, 2008
- Learned of iTerm’s existence thanks to Ruby meetup. How did I live with Terminal.app for so long? #
I read the The Onion regularly in high school. The wry, pertinent humor appealed to me at the time. I eagerly awaited new articles, especially in the point-counterpoint series. In college, I forgot all about The Onion, and only discovered it again when it made a brief splash in internet news by making its archives freely available on its website. While the site is a treasure trove of sarcastic, pithy articles, the older pieces are harder to find as the The Onion has largely transcended simple text in favor of trendier video clips.
I will be adding links to my favorite articles from The Onion’s archives as I run across them.
The List
- Black Guy Asks Nation for Change
- Nigeria May Be A Developing Nation, But It Is Rich In Culture vs. Get Me Out Of This Godforsaken Hellhole
- Teen Who Just Discovered Led Zeppelin Starting To Piss Off Friends
- Alzheimer’s Sufferers Demand Cure For Pancakes
- New Strip Mall Of America Stretches Over 1/6th Of North Dakota
- Thin, Attractive Woman Accepted For Who She Is
The concept behind Dig This is as novel as it is successful. Charge people a lot of money to play with giant earth moving equipment in a ten-acre gravel pit? Genius. I find the service’s website amusing, too — each page is an enormous Flash movie, embedded in an HTML file of the same name. The poor accessibility of this approach is compounded by the company’s two domains, which link to the same content. Dig This has received a lot of big-time press over the years, but the company is still missing a lot of sales opportunities with its amateurish web presence.
I do like the bulldozer sounds, though.
