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I reinstalled Firefox today and hadn’t gotten to installing the AdBlock extension yet, when I stumbled across an ad for Black Adder on the BBC website. For those that don’t know what I’m talking about, Blackadder was a 4-season show on the BBC One network, which was re-broadcast by PBS usually on Saturday nights around 11pm here in the US. The series stars Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as Edmund and Baldrick Blackadder, respectively. (You may alternatively know Rowan Atkinson as Mr.

• Obama Signs $680 Billion Military Bill, a Victory Over Lobbyists – Now if only we weren’t spending $130 billion dollars on two wars and $550 billion for defense…
• Screaming Monkey with Woot Cape – because everyone wants it!
• Verizon, Motorola unveil the Droid – I think if I were to buy a phone that actually cost me money, this would definite
  

I saw an article from the Technology Review published by MIT about the collection of science fiction material in the MIT Student Center earlier today. What must stem from years of collecting, there are roughly 60,000 books and thousands of magazines on the 4th floor of the building. The article is linked here, and if you’re interested in the ways people have saved documents over the years, it’s worth a look. Also if you like science fiction in general.

In tribute of the end of Geocities, the XKCD website has been re-written to look like a typical Geocities page. While this will not last forever, I have made an archival backup of the page here. Major props to Randall for doing this! :)

P.S. Check out the page’s source code for some laughs

As we enter the final hours of October 26th, 2009, we celebrate and mourn the life and soon-to-be death of Geocities, one of the web’s top three most-visited websites (1) at it’s heyday. It went public in 1998, and its IPO price started at $17. It rose quickly to over $100 by 1999 in the dot com era, showing its dominance. Bought in January of 1999 by Yahoo for $3.57 billion, it was wildly popular.