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While you were in high dudgeon about Delicious maybe shutting down or getting sold, J.M. Snyder, the owner of a Rainbow Reviews, a site with a reputed 2,300 reviews of gay and lesbian books, plans to shut down that site and delete everything six months from now. The latter is not a guarantee, but what other interpretation can one glean from Snyder’s official statement? “Our last site update will be December 31. After that, the site will remain online with all reviews archived for at least six months.”

You lost your shit when Geocities got deleted from the Internet. What are you going to do about this?

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