Education & Reference Best Cracked articles

[chargers 09]

I imagine some of you are familiar with the cracked.com website, it not I've just introduced you to a whole new procrastination tool.

I've seen Caesar post some articles, anyone else care to post some of the better ones they've seen.

 

[Caesar]

I stopped visiting a few months ago because it was just a massive time sink. Great site though, you learn all sorts of interesting crap.

David Wong and the guy who writes 'Dan Dan Revolution' are my favourite columnists.

 

[Poseidon]

I bloody love that site. Only recently got into it.
I get sucked into reading a whole bunch of their articles because they all sound so interesting, and they are.

 

[Messenger]

Now it's got me.

 

[Marlowe]

Their articles are funny but I remember them often being inaccurate so I stopped reading.

 

[Simple Jack]

ITT: The death of productivity.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

You know, I almost remember the last time i went to bed before 12pm.

 

[TassieEagle]

You know, I almost remember the last time i went to bed before 12pm.

is that meant to be am?

Cracked has some really good articles but its one of the video series that got me hooked, Agents of Cracked starring Daniel O'Brien and Michael Swaim.

 

[LouisCK]

I've loved SeanBaby's absurd writing since he ran his old NES page in the early days of the internets. Something about his metaphors just cracks me up, he's just the king of absurdity.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Haven't read anything on BigFooty in 24 hours now, since I was reminded that I haven't visited Cracked in a few months....

 

[myyakhasfleas]

Any of the So you're series by Chris Bucholz. Love every single one for example So Your Clone is Trying To Murder You.

 

[Yellow Feathers]

Get onto Cracked most days

This is the winner though: http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/

Don't think I've ever laughed so much in my life. Brilliant!

 

[ioppolo]

Many hours have been spent reading articles on Cracked. Totally worth it.

 

[Confuscius]

I randomly found this article a few years ago, and I check the site regularly ever since

http://www.cracked.com/blog/twas-the-night-before-christmas-2-christmasturbation/

 

[Kyptastic]

This was the first article I ever read on Cracked

http://www.cracked.com/article_1861...nt-things-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school.html

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Just found this one.

Quite amazing, and with an Australian connection.

 

[skilts]

Does anyone know if this site is in any way related to a magazine of the same name, published in the 60s? That magazine was a slightly raunchier, more 'out there' version of , Mad Magazine. There was also a harder edge to their satire. I'm guessing probably not, given the website appears to be more concerned with quirky, little-known facts and the like.

I remember the magazine so well because a copy of it was detected in my school bag, by the christian brother who was teaching me. It was confiscated and I was hauled before the principal and threatened with expulsion. When they eventually calmed down a bit, it was pointed out to me that such publications were vehicles of cynicism. They were probably right, and such thoughts have driven the rest of my life, though what they called 'cynicism', I tend to characterise as 'realism', a concept with which those turkeys had never enjoyed even a fleeting encounter.

 

[Caesar]

Does anyone know if this site is in any way related to a magazine of the same name, published in the 60s?

It is. The magazine folded a while ago though.

I think the website was originally more along the lines of the magazine, but it was relatively unsuccessful. It then sort of reinvented itself with the list-based articles that they're now famous for.