How modern technology wrecks the plot of various classic movies

Brad Majors and Janet Weiss use their cellphones to call for help from the AAA, and never need to investigate the light "over at the Frankenstein place."

An inquisitive journalist checks the "Early Life" section of the wikipedia entry on Charles Foster Kane, to confirm that Rosebud was ( spoiler )

. (The article on this controversial media mogul, which was semi-protected anyway, has been completely locked down as news of his death breaks.)

Other examples welcome.

Cory Doctorow and Lesbian Experimentation

Now *there's* a phrase that the good doctor probably wasn't expecting to pop up in his Google Alerts in-box this morning...

It's just that this article about Cory's project to do a scientific 'control' test of self-publishing vs conventional publishing put me in mind of an old xkcd cartoon.

But then, I've always been at least slightly twisted.