Microsoft/Skype -- Putting Things into Perspective

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Microsoft acquires Skype!
Largest Microsoft acquisition ever!!
Facebook jilted!!!
Google jilted!!!!
Wait, Facebook wins through Microsoft!!!!!
Wait, Microsoft overpaid by $4 billion with a B!!!!!!
OMG
Google just launched music in the cloud!!!!!!!!
What will Apple do next!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every so often, when I get a bit too caught up in the the overwhelming echo-chamber/hype-machine of our social-networked/always-on little corner of the world, I like to watch the slide show below.  Slow but engrossing.

Empires come.  Empires go.  Only change is constant.

One Thousand Years of European History in Five Minutes