The Onion

Is Wired better than The New York Times? According to this year's Webby Awards, when it comes to Best Copy/Writing, it sure is.  read more »

Washington-based thinktank the Brookings Institute released a report Tuesday about the damaging trend of "artistocratization" gaining steam in cities across the country.  read more »

On Friday night, the authors and graphic designers of the latest book from the deadpan satirists at The Onion walked the one whole block from their office to the Apple store in Soho, to promote Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth (73rd Edition) -- now with "fewer clouds on maps," "better-veiled xenophobia," and "curvier latitude lines."

In a shameless act of cross-promotion between new and old media, a narrated slideshow was recorded so that iTunes users could download it as a podcast--which, of course, would promote the audiobook version of the atlas (available on iTunes for $15.95, natch).  read more »