..no, not Michael Jackson’s funeral (which you can watch at Hulu, CNN, and pretty much every other website and channel around).

I’m talking about a much more important landmark in television: the name change of science fiction/fantasy cable network from SCI-FI to SyFy. Yes, folks the day is finally here. First reported back in March, many people have dubbed the change a “hoax” at best, a “huge freakin’ mistake that will ruin genre television for the rest of eternity” at worst (we geeks have a tendency to blow things out of proportion). So, why the change? And why all the fuss? Let’s a take a look.