Sunnyvale, CA – In the wake of Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision last month to end her company’s work-from-home program, throngs of tired-looking Yahoo! employees have begun showing up at the office in sleepwear and eating breakfast foods all day at their desks in a form of protest. “If we can’t work from home, then I guess we’ll just have to home from work,” said Yahoo! marketing analyst Justin Zeller, who had telecommuted [...]
Beijing, China – Rising youth interest in technology was on display as a recent survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) revealed that a staggering 92% of China’s preschoolers consider hacking their favorite school subject, easily beating out math (4%), science (2%), English (1%) and history (1%) as the preferred class activity. In just its first year as a required subject, computer hacking — specifically malicious Internet activity targeting infrastructure [...]
Portland, OR – At 5:03 yesterday afternoon, an exhausted but elated Tim and Kathy Fensworth welcomed into the world their brand new, healthy 8-lb. baby boy ;P, who is the first ever person to be named an emoticon. The couple, who were reportedly neither drunk nor high at the time of the baby’s naming, said they had actually been leaning toward the name :0 as recently as last week but were holding off [...]
In a shocking turn of events, a letter from BlackBerry president and CEO Thorsten Heins has surfaced (posted today on social-news site Reddit.com) suggesting that R&B singer Alicia Keys was blackmailed into becoming the telecommunication company’s new Global Creative Director. More to come as this story develops.
Pensacola, FL – Avid safari-goer and lifelong giraffe fanatic Maude O’Leary was said to be “over the moon” yesterday after hearing about Facebook’s new giraffe search, according to her husband Henry. “She hasn’t been this excited since Elvis came to Madison Square Garden in ’72,” Henry said. “She just can’t get enough of giraffes.” O’Leary, who has been giraffe-crazy ever since safariing through Tanzania as a little girl, overheard two youngsters talking [...]
New York, NY – Known best for her bizarre clothing choices and frightening live performances, Lady Gaga has decided to put recording and touring on hold for the next year while she focuses on a series of tweet-size children’s books she’s calling “Lady G’s Amazing Baby Monsters: Traveling to the Sun and Other Fun Tales.” Each of the collection’s 50 volumes will tell a “baby monster’s” unique story while using no more than 140 characters [...]
Columbus, OH – Former Best Buy store manager Trent Mider learned the hard way that it’s always important to check everything on your computer screen before taking and sending a screenshot to someone with the ability to fire you. Because what started out as a simple email letting his boss, regional manager Bill Montgomery, know that the Grove City Best Buy’s holiday hours were listed incorrectly online turned into an inadvertent announcement that Mider was [...]
Los Angeles, CA – While tinkering around with the new MacBook Pro he got for Christmas, an amazed Hugh Hefner realized for the first time in his life that endless amounts of pornography are available from thousands of websites online — not just in printed adult publications like his Playboy Magazine as the millionaire publisher previously believed. After making the discovery, Hefner zipped through the Playboy Mansion on his Rascal scooter like a creepy old [...]
San Francisco, CA – Kevin Systrom, one of Instagram’s co-founders, took to the company’s blog again in an effort to squelch the uproar from Instagram’s proposed Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect on January 16, 2013. The controversy lies in the language of Instagram’s new policies, which suggests the company has the authority to begin generating advertising revenue by giving marketers the right to display profile pictures and other personal information [...]
Cupertino, CA – Less than two weeks after announcing plans to begin manufacturing a line of Mac computers in the U.S., Apple CEO Tim Cook went back on his comments, saying his words were “minced and misconstrued by the media, especially NBC, the producers of Rock Center, and that character assassin Brian Williams.” “I said [Apple is] going to build a computer here at home,” Cook explained. “A computer. Singular. Make a single [...]
