I often use archive.org for web sites that have gone to "bit heaven" (happens a lot with hosted sites like geocities.com). The only caveat is that the web site must be somewhat popular in that it has been previously listed at search engine sites to have been visible. Graphic heavy sites don't fare too well either since mostly text only is saved.

New York Times
September 29, 2002
By WARREN ST. JOHN
At Ivy League schools, scramble bands often cross the line. Just ask Columbia after its band joked about altar boys at a halftime show against Fordham.

They have finally found a diagnosis for my condition. Hooray!! Ihave recently been diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it goes. I decide to wash the car. I start toward the garage and notice the mail on the table. OK, I'm going to wash the car, but first I "m going to go through the mail. I lay the car keys down on the desk, discard the junk mail and I notice the trash can is full.

OK, I'll just put the bills on my desk and take the trash can out, but since I'm going to be near the mailbox anyway, I'll pay these few bills first. Now where is my check book? Oops, there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk.

Oh, there is the coke I was drinking. I'm going to look for those checks, but first I need to put my coke further away from the computer, oh maybe I'll pop it into the fridge to keep it cold for a while. I head for the kitchen and my flowers catch my eye they need some water.

I set the coke on the counter and, ooh oh! There are my glasses. . I was looking for them all morning. I'd better put then away first. I fill a container with water and head for the flower pots-----Aaaaaaagh! Someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. I'll never think to look in the kitchen tonight when I want to watch television so I'd better put it back in the family room where it belongs.

I splash some water into the pots and onto the floor. I throw the remote onto the sofa and I head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do?

End of Day! The car isn't washed, the bills are unpaid, the coke is sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered. the check book has only one check in it and I can't seem to find my car keys!

When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I'm baffled because I KNOW I WAS BUSY ALL DAY LONG !!!!!! I realize this is a serious condition and I'll get help. BUT FIRST I think I'll check my e-mail.

Why did the chicken cross the road?


GEORGE W. BUSH
That's a very interesting question.

AL GORE
I invented the chicken. I invented the road. Therefore, the chicken crossing the road represented the application of these two different functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people.

RALPH NADER
The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

PAT BUCHANAN
To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.

RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet someone out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with their crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars, and when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your money, money the government took from you to build roads for chickens to cross.

P.E.T.A. SPOKESPERSON
What business is it of yours why the chicken crossed the road? The chicken had every right to
cross the road, more right than you have, since the chicken never murdered or enslaved another
animal for its own pleasure.

MARTHA STEWART
If the chicken crossed the road on my property, I would be fully justified in blocking its exit until the local authorities could arrive to arrest it for trespassing. I am a private person and should not have to be subjected to the "innocent mistakes" of common chickens.

JERRY FALWELL
Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other side." That's what "they" call it the "other side." Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side."

DR. SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, But why it crossed, I've not been told!

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die. In the rain. Alone.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

BARBARA WALTERS
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it overcame a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens crossing roads in peace.

ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

KARL MARX
It was a historical inevitability.

SADDAM HUSSEIN
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve
gas on it.

VOLTAIRE
I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the death its right to do it.

CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

FOX MULDER
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please?

LOUIS FARRAKHAN
The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down.

COLONEL SANDERS
I missed one?

"Kafka famously said you should never show the audience a gun in the first act unless it was going to go off in the third act." Memory and intuition suggests Chekhov, not Kafka. Anton, not the Star Trek one.

Although he can be annoying - kind of mocking and self-righteous - I like Randy Cassinghams' general approach to life, and his business model.

Did I ever tell you about the greatest archive of sound and moving images anywhere on earth? It's in the Library of Congress. A new friend who is on staff there arranged for me to visit. They have clean, clear movies from 1896, originals or DVD transfers of every film ever made in the U.S. and many from foreign sources. That includes Todd-AO, CinemaScope, Cinerama and 1929 MGM "Grandeur" formats. They have machinery to play anything ever made, including clear repro from Edison cylinders. They also have cassettes of the entire proceedings in both houses of Congress every hour of every day since they started doing it.