THE INTERNET NOW IN HANDY BOOK FORM
Looks like nerdy chum and comedic talent bloke David McCandless has finally released his much awaited book The Internet: Now in Handy Book Form!. I helped out on some of the gags (but I don’t know whether any made it in, particularly my gonzo porn spoof idea “Gory Hole.”)
Here’s what it says on Amazon:
Charlie Brooker, 2007
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll realise you didn’t cry at all but simply laughed again”Book Description
At last, the Internet in handy book form. Why did nobody think of it before?
This satirical meisterwerk by David McCandless is a full colour spoof of everyone’s favourite information superhighway thing. From the shiny overground of Google, Microsoft, and Apple to the seedy underground of porn, conspiracy and Myspace, no corner of the internet is left unmocked. Nor are its inhabitants. All 144 pages are stuffed with narcissitic bloggers, ultra-geeks, and desperate online daters. You know the types.The result is funny and scary. Clever and crude. Dark and absurd. Er, the internet in a book, basically.