Google is still providing search results today, but ...
Even though it has been the center of my blogging attention since awakening this morning, the whole anti-SOPA “blackout day” thing was bound to trip me up sooner or later … and it did.
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A question popped into my mind, namely: What was the name of the family dog on “The Jetsons”? (Don’t ask why I wanted to know, because the reason is even less important than the question.)
As we do whenever such a question occurs, I went to Google and typed: “name of Jetsons dog” … and right there at No. 2 on the page of search results was “List of Jetsons characters.” I hit the link and up pops:
Doh! I had momentarily forgotten; no Wikipedia today.
It was a perfect (though perfectly trivial) illustration of the point those participating in today’s protest are trying to make.
And the dog’s name was Astro.
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