Shoot The Moose (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
I was going to be a jackass and post this video. But, I don’t want to violate the spirit of the day. So, here’s one of my favorite songs. All these years later, it still makes me happy when it comes up in the iPod. It reminds me of when Ford Prefect, my brother and I [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Your result for The How Well Do You Know Douglas Adams, and Hitch Hiker's Guide Test... Ford Prefect You're a hoopy frood from a far out planet, you know Betelgeuse Seven from Magrathea, but may slip up on more difficult questions. Perhaps you only know one version of [...]
Hog On Ice (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
I Know how Ford Prefect Felt I have discovered that I was insane to think I could find a spotting scope that would enable me to see .17 HMR holes in a target 300 yards away. That's a bummer. I...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Posted by Alex Ford Prefect reporting. I just got back from Damascus. Syria and the Syrians are ready for peace, I am glad to report. Damascus was hot as usual during the summer months. It was bursting with life, people, and moving objects (sometimes referred to as cars) wondering around its busy and narrow streets. At traffic [...]
The Great Pumpkin (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
...but then again, perhaps Ford Prefect should pen an addendum about Canada - the one about that alternate universe where the bypass that destroys Earth isn't built, and the Vogons instead colonize Canada and set up a training camp for aspiring bureaucrats to hone their skills. Welcome to Canada! Where "seldom is heard a disparaging word, and the truth never gets in the way"! [ source ]
http://podblack.wordpress.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
I’ve traveled a lot over the past four years - around the world twice, three times to Melbourne from Perth in one year for university studies, a school trip around Japan and eve juggled some very odd flight combinations to get to Wagga Wagga. As Ford Prefect might well say, you’ve got to know where [...]
gadgettastic.com (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
It'??s an amateur astronomer???s dream! Stargazers now have a new weapon for their celestial arsenal, the MySky GPS Star Tracker. Think of it as your own personal Ford Prefect ??? your guide to the galaxy. It has a built-in GPS, LCD display, magnetic north sensors, and electronic accelerometers. How does it work? Pop in the batteries [...]
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
At the risk of repeating myself, I find that once again I quote a particular releveant bit from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, just as I did here and here : Ford Prefect hit the ground running. The ground was about three inches farther from the ventilation shaft than he remmbered it, so he misjudged the point at which he would hit the ground, started running too soon, stumbled awkwardly and twisted...
Virtual Economics (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
On the day of the London mayoral election it seems apt to once again cite Douglas Adams, who wrote (apart perhaps from Crossman's Plato Today,) what is for me the definining comment on modern "democracy": "Ford Prefect, of course, had...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
By Ford Prefect, BASMA (BAttling to SMile Again) is a Syrian, non-governmental and non-profit organization staffed by thousands of volunteers dedicated to helping young Syrian disadvantaged children battling cancer. It is one noble thing for Syrians in North America to come together for an annual event on the 19th of April to raise money for BASMA. [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
It is the biggest graveyard of its kind in Europe – a vast metal jungle of more than 1,000 rusting vintage cars including forgotten British Wolseleys, "sit up and beg" Ford Prefects, rotting Porsches and even the wreck of a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
By Ford Prefect No. Not under the current US Administration according to Dr. Alon Liel, Head of the Israel-Syria Peace Society and former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affair. Dr. Liel was speaking at the Middle East Institute in Washington last Thursday to a packed audience. Audio recording of Alon's talk. Liel spoke out of his [...]
John's Adventures (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
I was just sat half-watching reruns of the classic British TV series The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (or H2G2 for short). Right at the end the main characters Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect have crash landed 2 million years ago on Earth and are trying to teach some cave men scrabble so that the spaceship full of some other planet's castoffs that crash landed with them won't out-evolve them (it's...
Shoot The Moose (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
A while back, I told you that X-Alt had gone to the studio and recorded a new theme song for the locally-produced television show, Nashville Gospel. Well, Ford Prefect had a surprise for us this morning. He’s edited the new show opening, and posted a sneak peek: This is quite snazzy. Ford is a very good [...]
Cherryflava (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
We're loving the old 'Scort in this ad for Roadkill toys. Squashing furry bunnies with an old Ford is the prefect ingredient for a successful viral campaign.
