Best of the Rest: Google’s ‘Fail Whale,’ Saving Geocities

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There’s a load of great tech news happening out there each day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

• Google hopped on the ‘Fail Whale’ bandwagon with its animated ‘down for maintenance’ page (seen above). [From: Google Wave]
• In case you just can’t get enough animated gifs and terribly designed pages, someone backed up 600,00 GeoCities sites before this week’s shutdown. [From: DownloadSquad]
• Create a stop-motion movie with your iPhone with the new Timelapser app. [From: CNET]
• The Internet is getting its grubby hands in everything, so it’s no surprise that it’s changing Halloween. [From: The Telegraph]

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