Tag: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Marvin The Philosopher
After this saying from Marvin the Philosopher – ‘Life, Loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it’ (I have the t-shirt with this the real Marvin on it saying that): My second mantra is this:
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Hitchhikers
Not the Douglas Adams one, but very appropriate animation by LISAA as I’m reading ‘Dimensions of Miracles’ by Robert Sheckley at the moment, which shares a lot with Hitchhiker’s Guide, although not the ‘complete rip off’ that some catfishy Amazon reviewers contend, and Douglas said he hadn’t read it anyway… (via Counter Sparkle)
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide on Coffee
https://vimeo.com/23492673 A fan of Douglas Adam’s H2G2 (as fans call it) has created this guide entry for Coffee – great use of Keynote, although I doubt the Guide would run on anything as lowly, bulky and normal as an iPad. Still I’d love a whole encyclopedia of this kind of thing. (via Lumpy)
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Watch the Apocamix Now!
Eclectic Method do it again! via Boing Boing Love the subtle HitchHiker’s bits spread throughout.