This week I’m responding to editorial queries about our upcoming book. The copy editor has done a fantastic job cleaning up awkward phrasing and correcting citations. The copy editor noted that several of the URLs we cited in the book no longer exist, and asked me to provide corrected URLs. I went to Google to find where they may have relocated themselves and was unable to find ANY of them. It’s like they never existed. Sigh. Such is permanence in this digital age. I suppose this is a good thing to keep in mind for future publications: cite a URL if you have to, but make sure to explain the content of the web site in your text well enough because by the time your reader is looking at your publication the URL likely no longer exists.
http://cheezburger.com/6399386112
Is it possible to find them on the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive?
Woohoo! The Wayback Machine has them!