Mountain View, CA – Google Inc. has entered into talks to purchase controversial website 4chan. The deal is designed to bring the massive user base of the imageboard and the internet meme machine of /b/ into the Google family in an attempt to broaden the search giants grip on the entire internet. Scrape TV
San Bruno, CA – YouTube has announced that they will now allow users to upload video clips up to one gigabyte, up from the previous one hundred megabytes that the company had previously allowed. While some users are applauding the move as a step forward, potentially allowing for high definition video (the length of clips remains ten minutes), some are calling the move pointless as it will do little to upgrade the quality of the content of the videos. Scrape TV
Washington, D.C. – With the government bailouts on the verge of becoming a reality, opinions on the state of the US economy are as divided as they have ever been. The continuing financial crisis is forcing the American people for the first time in a long to look to their government for help, and socialists around the world are taking note. Scrape TV
Juneau, AK – Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has gone on the record to defend her foreign policy experience by stating that because her state is located right next door to Russia, she is qualified in foreign relations. While Alaska is indeed right across the Bering Strait from the eastern edge of Russia, the capital of the country is quite a distance away. We’ve included a quick chart comparing the distance between Juneau (Alaska’s state capital) and other global capital cities: Scrape TV
Miami, FL – Controversial celebrity lawyer Jack Thompson has been officially disbarred for life by the Florida Supreme Court. The disbarment will take effect in thirty days, allowing Thompson time to clean up any lose ends such as clients, cleaning out his offices, and making his last few game purchases. Scrape TV
New York, NY – John McCain has made the unprecedented decision to suspend his Presidential campaign and go back to Washington to help deal with the unprecedented economic crisis gripping the country. The senator has chosen to return to his offices in the Capitol in order to help build a consensus for the current administration’s economic proposal. It has also been revealed that the McCain family has been forced to put two of their seven homes up for sale, which in part provoked this surprising move. Scrape TV
Juneau, AK – Long before Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave her tacit approval to the controversial bridge to nowhere, she had already been practicing her rubber stamp on projects that, to an outside observer, might have seemed doomed. Scrape TV