Withdrawal from the internet?

The Register is reporting that Yahoo! and an advertising outfit called OMD ran an "Internet Deprivation Study", where volunteer test subjects went cold turkey on the internet for 14 days:

If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey.

The article, tongue firmly in cheek, examines the results of the study and the "sobering proof of how a temporary lack of an internet connection could reduce one's life to ruins in days". (Via Slashdot)