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Original comic source: https://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ours... (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20100111052839/http://www.recomb...)

HN discussion from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554733

Wikipedia entry for the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

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Thanks! We've changed the URL to that first link from https://otpok.com/2014/01/03/amusing-ourselves-to-death/.

Edit: err never mind, now I see why you included the archive link. Switched to that.

(2014) should be changed to (2009) too.

Done now. Thanks!

Bit of an aside, it was fun to notice the Australian references in the comic. Surprises me still to see something Australian on the "regular" internet.

    > the Australian references

I read the comic. Which Aus refs?

"orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy"?

These are unknown to most Americans.

Isn't that a reference to Brave New World?

Yes.

Why is this downvoted? Man, HN is so weird sometimes...

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