Internet

  • Mugshot Gets Woman Marriage Proposals & Internet Fame

    Getting arrested for drinking and driving may have been the best thing for Florida woman, Megan McCullough formerly Megan Simmons. The 27-year old mother of four has been bombarded with marriage proposals and offers to pay her bills by admirers via Twitter all thanks to some unknown person posting...
  • LoLcats are apparently making us smarter

    A graduate student at the London School of Economics has produced a study that states that the internet meme “LoLcats” make people (counter-intuitively) smarter. The internet anthropologist found that the online banality draws people closer together through its silliness. She believes that Lolcats were invaluable tool for creating connections...
  • Osama’s dead, cue the memes

    In case you have been living under a rock for the last few days you will have probably already heard that Osama bin Laden shuffled off this mortal coil with a little help from double-tap to the side of the face. By now his body would have reached its...
  • Politician blames Facebook for election loss, gets litigious

    Majed Moughni is a failed Republican candidate – he took a shot last year and came fourth in the Republican primary in Michigan’s 15th district. Some would say that coming fourth means that you are not connecting with your demographic, that people didn’t warm to your personality and that...
  • Chinese man felled by three-day game-a-thon

    A Chinese gamer is reported to have died after embarking on a a three-day gaming marathon at an Internet cafe, during which time he went without sleep, and consumed very little food or water. Details are scant but it appears that the man, who has not been identified) was...
  • How not to get back in touch with someone who just “unfriended” you on Facebook

    The conversation that transpired in the picture above is very real – there is a real Matthew and there is a real Jack – and Jack, as you can see, has a way with words. Asking a guy why his wife isn’t talking to him is no way for...
  • Angry mob targets wrong man [Facebook]

    If you ever wanted proof of the stupidity of crowds, look no further than the unfortunate case of 23-year-old Triz Jefferies. Someone decided that it would be amusing to post his name and photo on a Facebook page dedicated to finding the Kensington Strangler, a serial rapist and killer....
  • Barbie Video Doll : Innocent or Evil

    It seems as a community we are not content with our children just playing with Barbie Dolls, but we want to expose them to an adult world as well. How so? Mattel have recently introduced a new Barbie doll that incorporates a hidden video camera, a spy camera for want of another name. The media...
  • Man’s life saved by Internet addiction

    The Internet abounds with horror stories about Internet addiction – people have killed and been killed because of it, marriages have broken up, educations have been ruined – as usual, everyone remembers the bad and forgets the good. Australian Demitrios Bisbelis owes his life to his Internet addiction. Had...