The Great Firewall of China has started blocking Google — ah well, there's a doomed civilization.
The ban is being widely debated on the web. On an online forum, a Chinese webmaster wrote: "Google is a very important tool for me and many other Chinese people."
"Please tell the world, that we need Google, or Yahoo or something else that's useful to do the research. We don't care about politics, but please help us to reach Google."
(Thanks, Jim!)