Mostly the peeps over at The Onion have the same dark, cynical, and often down right depressing view of our world that I do. Although sometimes, even I, the devil’s handmaiden find their stories a little too on the bitter side and they remind me of that awful stuff my gran used to put on my nails to stop me biting them when I was little.
Yesterday however I found their amusing Our Dumb World Atlas of the Planet Earth, and it rocks. They’ve added their Our Dumb World layer to Google Earth. It features little onion icons, that when clicked on, pop up country profiles and other interesting cultural, political and historical facts. Well I don’t know if I should actually call them facts, as most of them are made up – anyway they’re funny go check it out.
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Oh that’s brilliant, good find Lucy!
Here’s another African one: Day 88 of the 100-Day Massacre – The U.S sends a commission of Guiness World Record officals into Rwanda to assess the situation.
That probably would’ve been more constructive than most of the things the US gets up to in the thrid world.
I particularly like the US – only one highlight! “The United States was founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the reckless pursuit of happiness at any cost – even life and liberty”
priceless