I always wondered who this guy was...

Fabled Burger King Employee Places Single Onion Ring In Everyone's Fries | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

A legendary Burger King employee, known across the land for the heroic and selfless deed of randomly inserting a single onion ring among the french fries of unsuspecting customers, is believed to have recently resurfaced in this sleepy Illinois town, sources reported Monday.

that's just weird...

Years ago, I first learned of the death of Graham Chapman on the VaxBB - first time I learned of an event "online".

A couple years later, I first learned of the death of Stevie Ray Vaughn on usenet - first time I learned of an event from the internet itself.

Fast forward years later, I first learned of the accident that killed Princess Di on Yahoo news - first time I was following an event "in real time", constantly refreshing the home page to look for updates.

Now there's news via facebook, and news via twitter, and all that...but today was just weird.

I learned today of the final decision in Al Franken's favor not from the news, and not just from plurk (a twitter-like system, but threaded), but from a very unique plurk user...