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Land Shark, Two Wild and Crazy Guys and Schweddy … Yahoo Adds 38-Year SNL Archive to Site

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a blog post that the Silicon Valley Internet giant had reached an agreement with Broadway Video to “feature Saturday Night Live content exclusively on Yahoo! The partnership gives Yahoo! users exclusive access to the entire 38-year archive of SNL content as well as clips from the current season.” While a lot of the content has already been widely available across the Web (on Hulu and NBC.com, for example) for years — thus, kind of stretching the idea of “exclusive” a bit — having it all in another place online, as the Church Lady says: “Isn’t that special?”

Winter Is Coming (Geeks, Too): HBO Premieres New Season of “Game of Thrones” in SF This Week

When you play the game of thrones, it’s either win or die. Yipes!
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Viral Video: Cure “Downton Abbey” Depression With a Dose of Dowager

Keep a stiff upper lip!
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Viral Video: HBO’s “Game of Thrones” Back for More Geek-tastic Adventures

It’s good to be a Lannister.
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Computer Potatoes: Black Friday Online Shopping Crosses $1 Billion in 2012

First billion-dollar Black Friday online.
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Mobile Thursday? Smartphone Shopping Is Still Tiny, But It’s This Year’s Big Online Buzzword.

This year’s questionable anecdotal meme: Apple iPads go well with pumpkin pie.
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Hey Internet Girl: Aaron Sorkin’s TV News 2.0 Show Gets a Second Season (Video)

“The Newsroom” survives the Internet ice age.
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Viral Video: There Will Be Dragons (In “Game of Thrones” Second Season, Natch!)

Someone’s definitely going to lose an eye. Also a limb, a head, a heart and, well, you get the idea of this fantastically gory television series.
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While Facebook’s Filing to Go Public, the Rest of Us Are Filing Taxes

While many anxiously await Facebook’s S-1 filing, others are focused on filing paperwork less likely to include the word “millions”: Their tax returns. Here are apps that may help.
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Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to “Top Chef”

A side of patent troll pâté anyone?
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For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

Video Meme: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs!

Apple Ramps Up Holiday iPad Production

IPad Hits Wal-Mart Friday

Viral Video: Katy Perry Defiles Elmo