Retailers up and down the internet have reported a busy Christmas Day as people looked for another way to avoid prolonged contact with loved ones. It is thought that in the modern world of ever decreasing attention spans, most people can tolerate 1 hour 30 minutes of interaction with humans before needing to check Facebook and Twitter, and spend money they haven’t got online.
Posted: Dec 26th, 2011
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A young single mother from Hounslow, West London has apologised after yesterday’s mass internet disruption, blamed on a tweet she posted early yesterday morning claiming that Justin Bieber was gay.
Posted: Dec 15th, 2011
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YouPorn, the adult video site, was off line for several hours last night after hackers uploaded multiple clips of Sesame Street to the bongo file-sharing site.
Posted: Oct 18th, 2011
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Stand aside ‘Planking’, move over ‘Batmanning’, there’s a new game in town. ‘Working’ is the new craze which has Facebook users flocking to upload photos of themselves engaged in the most menial, soul-destroying jobs, while wishing they’d paid more attention at school.
Posted: Oct 4th, 2011
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After fears that the hackers who had targeted Scarlett Johansson had gained access to ‘intimate’ photographs stored on her computer, popular performer Cilla Black took legal advice to block the publication of the pictures, only to find that the pornography industry had a long-standing ‘gentleman’s agreement’ against just such a scenario.
Posted: Sep 16th, 2011
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