Just as Retro Yakking (and security minister Lord West) predicted, areas of the web have been sent into lockdown by a group of Russian hackers. Twitter, Facebook and a number of other websites were unavailable for up to two hours, sending users into...

Speedy Clean are being hailed as the new Ghostbusters after saving numerous households from vicious green slime monsters. The beings are created when various food packagings come together in the same brown wheelie bin, and emerge from their squalor...

The mainstream media are in a rather large tizz over Formula One boss Ross Brawn's latest brush with the law. It seems a stock story these days is to report on figures in the public eye facing driving bans or court appearances to 'shame' them, to do...

As regular readers of this website might notice, Harry Yack is a fan of collecting unfathomable and slightly out-of-the-ordinary ReCaptcha entry prompts. You'll have seen these if ever you've tried to leave a comment here or many other weblogs spread...