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“Everything Old is Dead”, Declares Entire Internet

Monday, January 11, 2010 12:04

The music industry.  Dead. Traditional journalism.  Deader. You've Been Framed.  DEADEST. The murderer? The Internet. In shocking admission the Internet has admitted that everything that it considers to be 'old' and 'antiquated' in the eyes of a 16-year old geek from Telford, will be dead by the end of the year. Not ...

Moon-based Servers Only Hope for Bitorrent Trackers

Moon-based Servers Only Hope for Bitorrent Trackers

Friday, November 27, 2009 7:48

The Moon bitches. That's right. The Moon. The Piratebay have just landed a Dual Xeon Apache server in the Sea of Tranquillity and until the day the RIAA build an actual Deathstar capable of destroying our orbiting friend, the new lunar web-hosting service becomes the only safe haven for our ...

State-Run Ad-Network to Buy Products on Your Behalf.

State-Run Ad-Network to Buy Products on Your Behalf.

Monday, November 23, 2009 9:32

While the usual remark about how in Soviet Russia 'the online bargains BUY YOU' would be passé and clichéd, news that the UK government will be working with Microsoft to deliver a state-run advertising network comes as a strangely erotic surprise. With behavioural and contextual ad-targeting all the rage, the ...

Survey: Modern Women Rank 'Having A Big Box of Random Cables' a Must-Have in a Man

Survey: Modern Women Rank ‘Having A Big Box of Random Cables’ a Must-Have in a Man

Monday, November 16, 2009 8:21

What do these modern women want? A dashingly handsome gent with all his own teeth and no priors?  A successful entrepreneur who spends all his time eyeing your handbags to sell on eBay? Or just someone who won't keep asking 'You have see the original trilogy right?' in front of ...

Tablet PCs Plagued by Some Kind of 'Badly-Drawn Cock' Virus

Tablet PCs Plagued by Some Kind of ‘Badly-Drawn Cock’ Virus

Friday, November 13, 2009 9:43

The tablet PC has always been the preserve of the 'artistes' among us: 'the traffic warden', 'the bit-too-white waitress in Wagamamas' and 'that bloke in Design who walks around in flip-flops with a tablet PC in one hand, a hand-carved bamboo stylus in the other and a look of ...

The Chuffington Post Pt 3: LadyChuff Waves Back

The Chuffington Post Pt 3: LadyChuff Waves Back

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:25

Dear Lady Chuff, Please can I have a Google Wave invite please? Thanks enormously, Everyone, everywhere, all the time ------------------------ Dear, sweet, innocent readers, It’s clear what’s happened here. You haven’t quite understood: Google Wave doesn’t actually *do* anything. [caption id="attachment_878" align="alignright" width="251" caption="I look up to them both because they have Google Wave invites."]...

Police Manhunt Begins As Man Fails to Log into Facebook.

Police Manhunt Begins As Man Fails to Log into Facebook.

Monday, November 9, 2009 14:02

A missing person’s report was issued by police this morning after a Croydon man disappeared from Facebook. Friends fear the worst for 31-year-old Liam Blackley, after he 'vanished' from the social network yesterday afternoon. [caption id="attachment_875" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Police refuse to enter MySpace without armed protection"]...

Google Ad-Funded HealthCare Proposal Approved by Senate

Google Ad-Funded HealthCare Proposal Approved by Senate

Monday, November 2, 2009 11:16

In a sudden turn of events, Barack Obama's healthcare reforms have been put on hold and replaced by a bill to move all heathcare services across to an Advertising-funded model, mirroring today's online startup world. TechChuff can reveal that initially the proposal was to mirror traditional offline advertising methods by offering ...

Internet Entrepreneur's Mother Still Assumes He 'Fixes Computers' For Living

Internet Entrepreneur’s Mother Still Assumes He ‘Fixes Computers’ For Living

Friday, October 23, 2009 10:04

Inappropriately young but deceptively stubbled Internet Entrepreneur Anil Dot confirmed today that his mother still thinks he must be a computer repairman given he works in 'IT'. Anil admitted he maintains this facade at all family events too.  When his Uncle Sunil asked how the 'IT' was going, without bothering to try and explain ...

The Chuffington Post Part 2: LadyChuff answers her swollen mailbag

The Chuffington Post Part 2: LadyChuff answers her swollen mailbag

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:58

Dear Lady Chuff, As one of East London’s foremost self-proclaimed geeks, I was naturally one of the first to place an order for a Kindle. If I’m honest, though, I don’t really get it. What’s the point of trawling through pages and pages of Dostoevsky if the guy sitting opposite you ...