My imagination is already reeling. What are your current favourite or most detested wildly inaccurate historical films or TV series, and what future travesties do you think your descendants might see?
xkcd
Alas, poor geocities: I knew it well
I know, I’m several weeks late on this. Just catching up on the news that Yahoo has pulled the plug on geocities last month does give me a pang. Although I never actually made myself a geocities page, having fallen in with net-purists at a very early stage of my online habit: they scoffed, and thus so did I. Still, those blinkenlight pages were an important stage in the evolution of electronic self-publishing.
For the stats geeks: Correlation
Don’t forget to hover your mouse over the image until Rand’s metacomment shows up.
Nerds and reproduction
From xkcd – “Babies” (as always, for added twist, mouse-over the image for extra text)
Shameful confession: I haven’t kept up with xkcd lately
And so failed to alert the masses to a zombie Feynman sighting.
Hoyden About Town 