Repent! Flee! Social accessory Twitter has been besieged by a virus that sends you to porn and makes your Twitter Tweet automatically, simply by mousing-over a link, no clicking needed! A former British Prime Minister's wife is a prominent casualty.

This video, titled, "System Administrator's Day in Russia," was uploaded recently and features a few Russian men hurling keyboards across a parking lot. At first, you may be all, "Meh," but watch to the end and—well, you'll see.

Working from his custom-built home computer, Japanese engineer Shigeru Kondo used American programmer Alexander Yee's software y-cruncher to calculate pi to 5 trillion decimal places, a new record. Kondo's wife and mother, when told, expressed "no particular feelings." How... irrational!

Have you ever debated Microsoft's .NET Framework vs. Java with anyone? Has your father ever disowned you for embracing the latter? If so, then this Java 4-Ever spoof trailer will speak to your heart (and make you laugh).

Starbucks, of late, has been relentlessly hobo-fying itself in order to attract the rubes and bumpkins who flock to America's finest coffee house, McDonald's. Hey rubes: now you can look at Miley Cyrus upskirt pix free, while drinking caffeine sugar!

For those of us who went to school when flat screen monitors were a luxury, feelings of jealousy may creep up after seeing this video, in which several of them suddenly rise from tables. See, kids, school can be fun!

A South Korean couple let their baby die of malnutrition because they were addicted to online games. Now the government will offer rehabilitation centers for those who always need just one more hit.

British scientist Dr. Mark Gasson has implanted a virus-infected computer chip in his hand, allowing him to turn on his cellphone and pass through electronic doors. This will definitely turn out totally fine, if sci-fi novels are any indicator. [BBC]

Cars have so many computers in them now that they're vulnerable to hackers. Two security specialists were able to remotely disable a car's brakes by hacking into its on-board computer. Is there anything more terrifying than this? [NYT]

The iPhone sold 270,000 units on its debut weekend in 2007. Analysts at Piper Jaffray now say the iPad may have reached 700,000 — almost twice even the most generous pre-launch estimates — since it launched yesterday. [Bloomberg]

Computers can't read blogs because they don't understand stories. But those 'scientists' are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.)

How desperate are New York Times employees? A tipster tells us that a thief recently stole 27(!) laptop computers from the NYT's headquarters—and some think it may have been an inside job. The sordid details:

There are a lot of things to get upset over in life. Video games are not one of them. Here are the ten best video game freak outs on the web.

The spots did not come from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Microsoft's edgy ad agency of record. Instead, they were from an agency called Bradley & Montgomery. And they were directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Who said earlier this month: