News satire | TechChuff - the folly of too many

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 ...

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 ...

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"]...

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 ...

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 ...

Penis enlargement specialists and bereaved sons of murdered Ivory Coast businessmen were among the groups to voice their outrage today after thousands of Spambots pledged their support to striking Royal Mail staff. The Spambot, Zombie Net and Web Phishers Union (SZNWPU) said it would back a strike by postal workers, after ...

The extent of government cost-cutting measures has been uncovered after a leaked first draft of the Prime Minister’s Labour Party Conference speech revealed the government plans to hold the 2010 election using popular on-line questionnaire tool, Survey Monkey. The document was revealed during a conversation between LadyChuff and a senior cabinet ...

President Obama shocked by-standers in a local In-N-Out Burger with the following tirade captured by a tramp with a Flip HD: [one-sided transcript] "No, I haven't read your tweets because I do not follow you Gordon. I repeat,  I am not calling you G-Brown even if that is your Twitter ID Gordon. [caption id="attachment_816" align="alignright" ...

Two months ago we rescued a slightly-soiled Miguel from the cesspit of the Honduran Web startup scene and transferred him to a Mexican prison in Ciudad Juarez. We gave him an underserved journalistic platform, removed our iPod Touch from his batty and restarted his heart with a badly ...

While TechChuff spends most of his time wearing bin liners while beating out lines of Python, staring at 'lingerie' sites and beating our Python, we have been told that Fashion and Technology do occasionally meet outside of $25-a-month subscription sites. We sent our one-legged female reporter LadyChuff on the ...