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Patton Oswalt to Boston Bombers: "The Good Outnumber You and We Always Will"

by | April 16th, 2013

Comedian Patton Oswalt wrote a moving Facebook post yesterday following the senseless act of terrorism that occurred in Boston, managing to glean a positive message from the tragedy. Here's Oswalt's post in its entirety:

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction [...]

Oh Come On

Nation's Gullible Continue Being Alarmed by Onion Headlines

by | February 28th, 2012

"Why r ppl not RT this surely they cannot be that stupid!" writes Michael Robinson on Twitter, in response to this video about the CIA using Facebook via their "Overlord" Mark Zuckerberg. But they can be that stupid, Michael. They can. As evidenced by the fact that tons of people are flipping out over the video even though it's an Onion story from last March. C'mon, humans. We're better than this.

Web Video

Mark Zuckerberg Makes Zuckerberg, a Response to The Social Network

by | September 28th, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg is apparently not too psyched about how he's portrayed in The Social Network, so naturally he went and made a competing film that tells his side of the story.

Social Media

'The Onion' Has Tips for Avoiding Your Friends' Political Facebook Posts

by | November 6th, 2012

Logging onto Facebook this week is like stepping onto a minefield, but instead of mines, this minefield is full of self-satisfied "I Voted" posts and  lots of name-calling and yelling. That's why we're lucky to have The Onion News Network's advice for circumventing the inanity of the internet this week. It's best to just avoid your computer and all electricity altogether this election gets sorted, whether it be tonight or tomorrow or several weeks from now, which would be the worst case scenario for your Facebook news feed and would probably see people deactivating their Facebook accounts in droves.

Impersonations

Andy-Mark Sam-Zucker-berg Unveils Some New Facebook Features

by | September 22nd, 2011

Andy Samberg dons the Mark Zuckerberg North Face to introduce a couple new features at the Facebook F8 conference, like the "I'm Not Really Friends With These People" grouping. It's perfect for people like your best friend from kindergarten who now organizes anti-gay marriage rallies, because you really don't want to be associated with her but you also feel bad about denying all those great times you had in K-garten writing Goosebumps tribute novels at her house even though you were secretly terrified of Goosebumps. Not that that's a real situation I'm in with my Facebook account. Boy, it's hard to be a modern person, huh? Anyway, Samberg is [...]

Podcasts

The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Facebook Designer Ben Blumenfeld

by | September 11th, 2012

This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to former Facebook lead designer Ben Blumenfeld about what it's like to build a product that's used by over a billion people. Ben talks about how you make changes to something as big as Facebook, what it was like when the IPO came around, and what he's up to that he's left the company.

Still not sold? Geez, alright. You guys are tough, but I think I have just the thing. Here are some quotes from the episode:

Outrage

Very Smart People Think The Onion's Article on Planned Parenthood's Abortionplex Is Real

by | May 20th, 2011

Today, The Onion as a wonderful piece of satire about Planned Parenthood's new $8 billion Abortionplex, which promises to make abortions easy, breezy and fun. It essentially takes pro-life hysteria to an insane extreme, and the result is some sort of right-wing fever dream. Unfortunately, it was a little too subtle for some people on Facebook.

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