Don’t mind if I do, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

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A tasty Duff!, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

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Bender and Zoidberg go trick or treating, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

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After fifteen years, GeoCities is shutting down for good today. The Internet Archive has been working with Yahoo to make sure that the Wayback Machine has a complete, final snapshot of GeoCities before it goes offline.

The Archive Team, another archivist group run by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, is also archiving GeoCities. Jason created an under construction animated gif gallery to show the important cultural artifacts that we are going to lose with the GeoCities closure. I was browsing the gallery and found this little guy:

That penguin looks a lot like Tux, the linux penguin, but he’s actually the old-school mascot of QuickTime. I think his name was KickTam, which was how someone’s kid pronounced QuickTime. I forget the details.

KickTam isn’t used by Apple marketing, but you can sometimes find him hanging out with the QuickTime developers. He’s seen less and less everyday, and I was surprised to stumble upon him wearing a hard hat.

I think the only place that Apple still has KickTam up on apple.com is on the Letters from the Ice Floe page. Icefloe were tech notes that were useful to developers. I remember pointing people to Icefloe #19 every once in a while, and was surprised to see it is ten years old now. It seems the last Icefloe was written in 2001, and I imagine these will slip off apple.com soon, and KickTam will be gone from the net forever.

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I still haven’t figured out what I’m supposed to do in this game but the artwork in it is stunning, so for now I’m having fun clicking on random things and watching them move.

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Since pressing all the buttons on the laptop below did not produce any tasty edibles (just beeps and burps), Zara has decided to perform for her treats!

(acrobatic maneuvers were choreographed by Manuel Morillo of perros y perritos :)

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How dogs become their people…, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

So… Which one of these buttons dispenses the treats??? ;-)

jess

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skylight at the internet archive’s new bldg, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

may

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Mang demonstrating book purchasing on the iPhone, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

may

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puddles ain’t got nothin on me, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

may

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Decompression, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

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Decompression, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

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Limited prints are available from 3 Fish Studios here in San Francisco. They also offer linocut printmaking classes!

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