Satire Alert: British Predictions for 2008

2007 is nearly over! 

It's time now for predictions for 2008.  A witty writer for the Telegraph has these amusing, satirical forecasts for 2008.  Here is a sample:

• Google announces plans to buy a 40 per cent stake in the year 2009. April, May, June, July and "the nice, festive bit of December" will be renamed GoogleSummer, and the copyright on everything that takes place in those months will belong to Google.
• At the Beijing Olympics, China wins 78 per cent of all the medals . . . All Olympic medals are later recalled after they are discovered to contain dangerously high levels of lead.
  
• Google buys China.
• Azeroth, imaginary setting of the online fantasy game World of Warcraft, declares war on Second Life. "Bring it, dwarf," says Second Life's ambassador. "You think you all that, with your red beard and your Mithril Meat-hammer, but you ain't. We bad nasty."  Treaty obligations signed in the summer oblige Nato forces to launch a tactical strike on World of Warcraft's Northern European servers. An estimated 100,000 people in Sweden are fatally irradiated. Azeroth is destroyed.

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