Crowd sourcing, aggregation, community, cat’s doing weird shit, that’s what Web 2.0 is all about, it’s also about lists, lists for the lists of lists… but sometimes someone hits the moonshine a little too hard at the weekend and dreams up such contemporary classics as ‘15 t-shirts you’d hate to see on your daughter’s boyfriend‘.

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Illustration by Alan Dye from the NYT.

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Get thee to the BBC iPlayer and watch Wonderland: Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love. It seems love really is just a matter of cup size and scimitar length.

‘Lee thinks there’s something wrong in his marriage. His wife Carolyn won’t let him in the bedroom - always a bad sign, I think - and he has to sleep in the living room. He’s right, Carolyn is having an affair. And, frankly, poor Lee doesn’t stand a chance. The new guy, Eliot, is everything Lee isn’t: a tall, chiselled hunk, with a no-nonsense attitude, who wears just a pair of jeans, a sword and a couple of Uzis. Lee tells Carolyn he feels like Forrest Gump. Possibly not the best way to go about winning her back.

Carolyn and Eliot were immediately attracted to each other. She liked his muscles and weapons; he liked her skimpy outfits and enormous boobs. They hung out, went to romantic restaurants, got jiggy. Lee and the kids wait miserably for Mom to come back.’

(via Guardian)

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Mix one erudite geek with a Wii, a laptop, a suburban home, a baseball cap, shake and pour into some infrared customized safety glasses and… well, I don’t want to spoil it for you.

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s balding comedy foil asks Jack a couple of searching questions.

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