Salon.com > thing x http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Comedy: The Onion TED talks and Thing X http://www.salon.com/2012/10/17/new_comedy_the_onion_ted_talks_and_thing_x/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/17/new_comedy_the_onion_ted_talks_and_thing_x/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:42:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13043756 Just when the Internet was starting to get you down, it found a way to make everything OK again. Today fake news site the Onion launched its new TEDTalks spoof, Onion Talks, and another project by ex-Onion writers, Thing X, went live.

As you may know, TEDTalks is a series of presentations by world leaders, researchers and cognoscenti that aim to inspire and educate the public by sharing "ideas worth spreading." But the series has also been criticized for its tendency to repackage the ordinary. As of today, the Onion is here to deliver TEDTalks its comeuppance. The New Yorker reports:

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