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| The Onion |
"Chess Supercomputer Beaten Up By More Popular Computer".
"Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exo-Skeleton".
"Geopolitical Balance of Power Somehow Unaffected By Death of Princess Diana".
These are just a few of the many great headline news stories in The Onion, an Internet weekly billed as "America's Finest News Source".
It is, quite probably, the funniest site in the entire world.
Anyone who's read the tabloid-style news stories in Viz will immediately be familiar with The Onion's style. Try this: "IBM's Deep Blue, the supercomputer that recently contended with world chess champion Gary Kasparov, was beaten up Monday by a Macintosh Performa 6400CD, one of the most popular home computers on the market. The attack occured at approximately 3pm, shortly after a 60 Minutes piece on Deep Blue finished taping at IBM headquarters. The Performa reportedly entered Deep Blue's work station and pounded aggressively at the cabinet housing the chess computer's logic board, spilled coffee on its keyboard and inserted several paper clips into its ventilation slots. Deep Blue was not badly damaged."
The news archive is packed with stories including the wonderful "Christopher Reeve Place Atop Washington Monument" and "Collectable Plate Industry Calls For Tragic Death of Streisand". It's laugh-out-loud stuff. You can even have the paper delivered in print form, though you'll have to stump up $200 if you live in Europe. Visit the site forthwith.
See The Onion at http://www.theonion.com.
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