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Technology and Us
Social Hallucinations —
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Image via Wikipedia Douglas Adams ’ “rules that describe our reactions to technologies”: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new andexciting and ...1 week ago -
Neil Gaiman
The Nervous Breakdown —
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LitParks Susan Henderson talks with Neil Gaiman about his hair.1 week ago -
Dont Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman
El Bicho's Hive —
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Tying in with the release of Eoin Colfers And Another Thing…, the sixth book in the ever-expanding and prematurely designated The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy and the first not written by Douglas Adams, as well as the 30th anniversary of the first The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy novel, which was ...1 week ago -
Lots of Black Friday Links
Gerry Canavan —
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* You can listen to a segment of the Slavoj Žižek essay on contemporary apocalypticism that will appear in our upcoming issue of Polygraph here . (via Verso ) * The headline reads, Cigar-Shaped “Mothership” Plunges Argentinian Town Into A Blackout. * 15 Toys Not to Buy Your Child This Christmas. Of ...1 week ago -
Book review: And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
gordon.dewis.ca —
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Douglas Adams was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Though probably best known for his five part trilogy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , which exists as a radio series (produced over the span of a couple of decades), a television series , records, books and a movie , and a couple of ...1 week ago -
Audiobook: Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All —
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Douglas Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . If you are at all familiar with that book and the Hitchhiker’s series, then you certainly wouldn’t want to pass up an Earthly travel tour with Mr. Adams. Part travelogue, part adventure journal, and part biology lesson, this ...1 week ago -
The Theory of the Universe
Oldster's View —
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams English humorist & ...2 weeks ago -
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Part 6 of 3: And Another Thing… – Eoin Colfer
BookOffers.com.au —
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Despite the efforts of the Vogons, and even those of a more-than-typically troubled teenager, the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy continues, with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Part 6 of 3: And Another Thing… much to the delight of its fans (and to the annoyance of the Vogons). ...2 weeks ago -
Tech Podcast 268: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Returns!
PRI's The World —
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Download audio file (WTPpodcast268.mp3) Download MP3 If you’ve followed this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know I have a soft spot for the late Douglas Adams’ monumentally satisfying Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . I love it in pretty much all of its forms (OK, I’m partial to the radio ...2 weeks ago -
BROTHER GORILLA [Part 1]
Michael Greenwell —
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This is the first part of an only tangentially related two-part post. There is a famous song by French anarchist George De Brassens that will be part two, but in this first part I just want to post a little film I made to show that the term “Brother Gorilla” is not actually that far from the truth. The audio ...2 weeks ago -
Gift List Suggestions - #1 - Sci Fi
Book News and Reviews —
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I’ll admit to not being the most consistent blogger in the world, but with the holidays coming up my mind has turned to books. They are (usually) a cheap and interesting present that people will appreciate - even if they don’t read them, a book will make them look more learned when displayed on the coffee ...3 weeks ago -
Java: Accessing Private Members
Silveira Neto —
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Using reflection to make the “impossible”, change the accessibility of a object field to access it on runtime. import java.lang.reflect.Field ; class Life { private int meaning = 42 ; } class Hack { public static void main ( String args [ ] ) { Life life = new ...3 weeks ago -
Colfer’s Hitchhiker’s Guide Sequel Will Be His Last
Underwire —
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For a soft-spoken man of gentle manners and slight build, writer Eoin Colfer has no shortage of creative courage. While others might have shied away from following in the legendary footsteps of the late Douglas Adams, the Irish author accepted the challenge of penning a new installment of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...3 weeks ago -
Strange Matter: Peeling back the mask… Climb inside the geeky recesses of my cranium
the 941 —
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A personal message from Andrew Konietzky.3 weeks ago -
The significance and drawbacks of stories
Sporting Madness —
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An omnipresent but under-discussed element of sports in our modern era is the significance of the story. We often tend to think of stories as just factual representations of what goes on in a game, but the sheer amount of action involved in sports means they have to be both more and less then that. A breakdown of ...3 weeks ago -
Short story: Crimes Against Science Fiction
Jay Garmon [dot] Net —
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I want to give a shout out to Suzanne Vincent and the editing crew over at Flash Fiction Online , who gave this story one of the kindest and most encouraging rejection letters Ive ever received. This was really my first stab at flash fiction, and as such its rather derivative -- I was channeling a bit of Douglas ...3 weeks ago -
Dirk Maggs on Mostly Harmless
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog —
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October 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are Dirk Maggs’s thoughts on the fifth and final book in the series Mostly Harmless:This is a wonderful, terrible book. Wonderful in that it contains more of Douglas’s unique humour and driving obsessions than ...4 weeks ago -
A for Effort
JessicarulestheUniverse —
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Since the contestants have shown their determination to find things to love about Makati, the least I can do is give all of them a ticket each to the Ayala Museum. So congratulations everyone, you’re going on a field trip. The Gold of Ancestors exhibition is fairly spectacular.mccoy, inin, keanoidd, dakner, ...4 weeks ago -
BitchBuzz: Douglas Adams & Dolphins
Wombat's World (a blog for writer K. A. Laity) —
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My latest column for BitchBuzz was sparked by a story about dolphins and television. Seems they figured it out pretty quick, unlike simians who had to be coached in the ways of the box. I shudder to think how much they laughed to see what humans do with their non-nautical time: At the moment of Earths destruction, ...4 weeks ago
