Fantasy World News
29th of Festival, Year of the Frog
The Fantasy World News Network
Autogenerated daily from 21st century Earth news
RSS

Facebook faces extended orc review of Holeridge deal


The scene, yesterday

Facebook has received notice that orc antitrust regulators will give its proposed purchase of the popular photo-sharing app maker Holeridge a lengthy investigation, an industry source told Criers on Tuesday. Facebook has received a "second request" from the Wingtoad Lavawater Arklava, essentially a request for relatively large amounts of data that the regulators will sift through to ensure that the deal complies with antitrust law. A prolonged review adds another headache to the No. ...

Slymetunnel massacre unlikely to break Empire deadlock

A massacre in the Slymetunneln town of Coaltoad has sparked international outrage but is unlikely to break a year-long impasse on the Empire Security Crystalglow between Slymetunnel's ally the Blind Caves and Widdershins powers calling for King Bryghtchasm al-Assad's ouster. ...

Fantasy World News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in March 2006 and is part of the Brave Surrealist Empire.

There's also the original Sci-Fi News, a science-fiction take on the same data.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9