Shelter Skelter The Internet is a wonderful thing, but sometimes the information out there is frustratingly incomplete. I remember this particular episode of "The New Twilight Zone" from years ago, but I can't find anything more than this official description repeated over and over across a variety of sites.

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Rob said…
I found several using Clusty with more information then your link, but you might have seen them already. Here is oneIt is a brave new search engine world!
October 8, 2004 at 10:31 AM
emlarson said…
So I guess this means I have to give up on Google as my one and only search engine? Wow... the times, they are a-changin'!
October 15, 2004 at 2:23 PM
Rob said…
I think you just need to be willing to try other sources if you are not happy with the results.

By the way, do you have to approve the comments before they get posted?
October 19, 2004 at 4:24 PM
emlarson said…
The challenge is knowing that your results aren't complete, you know? It's like looking up spellings in a dictionary -- you need to know how to spell the word in order to find it. In the same way (okay, it's not the same at all) you need to know that you're missing search results in order to know that you need to try a different search engine.
October 20, 2004 at 2:54 PM
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