On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:46:20PM -0800, Tim May wrote:

Web crawlers ("observers," in quantum mechanics lingo) saw the article and indexed it is enough for me to beleve it was there, at least temporarily.

It was, and as of an hour or two ago it was still on the Onion's mobile.theonion.com wireless site. Details: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04180.html -Declan