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This is a link post Douglas Adams article on the internet from 1999
10 years today since his death yet still way ahead of his time. A frood who really knew where his towel was.
 (JosefK, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:32, Reply)
This is a normal post his death was such a loss
I'd love to hear what he would have said about technology over the last 10 years
 (I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 11 May 2011, 13:35, Reply)
This is a normal post I like to think he'd go back to his typewriter

(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:40, Reply)
This is a normal post probably quite a bit of yelping and fawning over ipads like Stephen Fry

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:42, Reply)
This is a normal post The Marvin in the recent movie version
looked a bit 'Apple-y', didn't he?
 (FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:45, Reply)
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I thought that the new ipads look a lot like how the guide is described in the book. If there isn't already a hitch-hiker's guide app there should be
 (JosefK, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:50, Reply)
This is a normal post it's called Wikipedia
although it requires a Text-to-Speech app
 (Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Wed 11 May 2011, 13:53, Reply)
This is a normal post He's stored in Highgate Cemetery
Check out the pens!
2.bp.blogspot.com/_kHBus1R3qZE/TDwhmAk7I4I/AAAAAAAAAAk/ndjkHCDRTwA/s1600/Adams+grave.jpg
 (Riggleberry, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:03, Reply)
This is a normal post so that's where they go! ;D

(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 11 May 2011, 14:09, Reply)
This is a normal post This in spades.
Growing up I always wished that the guide was a real thing and now it is.

Just wish there was a way to download the entire wikipeda and run it on an iPod touch.
Got an old one knocking about and mobil wikipedia without the need for an net connection would be ace.

[edit] You can download the entire wikipedia!
I feel a summer iOS project coming on. There's no inbuilt text to speech API in cocoa touch but apparently there's one that can be ported. Might finally get something useful out of that iOS developing thing I signed up to.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:18, Reply)
This is a normal post There's Qwiki, which that sort of thing.
www.qwiki.com/
 (I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:52, Reply)
This is a normal post That looks a bit ace!
Will bung that on the iPad tonight. Shame it needs a net connection though.

Kinda like the idea of having the sum of all human knowledge on a portable device in
case of the zombie apocalypse etc.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 May 2011, 15:03, Reply)
This is a normal post It was calle H2G2
Founded by DNA himself.

Clicky

The beeb funded it after he died and still are (looking at the website), although I'm surprised; I thought I read somewhere that they were going to drop it to save money (although it can't cost 'em much!).

In many ways it was a predecessor to Wikipedia- anyone could become a 'reporter' & submit entries.
It didn't take of as much as it could and last time I checked it varied wildly between dull articles on the mechanics of differentials and hilarious ones on driving technique.
 (I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Wed 11 May 2011, 19:48, Reply)
This is a normal post fascinating stuff

(I helped save b3ta! mutated monty, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck that's good!
If it wasn't for the bit about telephone lines I'd have thunk someone was pulling my leg and that was someone else writing it yesterday, fuck writing fiction someone should have been employing him to predict the next social trend for big media agencies and internet sites and such!
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:36, Reply)
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"A pidgin language is what you get when you put together a bunch of people – typically slaves – who have already grown up with their own language but don’t know each others’. They manage to cobble together a rough and ready lingo made up of bits of each. It lets them get on with things, but has almost no grammatical structure at all."

Dat made me fink of man dem in lahndan, innit.
 (I helped save b3ta! Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Wed 11 May 2011, 14:57, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't WANT to like Douglas Adams...
...as it makes me a geek. But goddamnit the man is intelligent.

I have to read loads of crap about social media (work in advertising) and I get angry with people who think social networking is anything new.

What this made me think of, though, is the whole thing about entertainment. You read old novels, and after dinner parties the guests all do "acts" or performances to entertain each other. And now we have YouTube, B3ta, and any other number of things where people are again entertaining each other, rather than just using mass-produced entertainment.

Awesome link.
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Wed 11 May 2011, 15:06, Reply)
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A nice follow-up to Hyperland, a 1990 docu with DNA about hypertext systems.
 (I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 11 May 2011, 16:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Moon monkey had a good link to the collection of HGTTG
I cant find it but when i get home ill edit and throw it in. Its a really great listen.
 (I helped save b3ta! jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Thu 12 May 2011, 0:36, Reply)