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One of the very first posts I made on this blog, back in 2004, was about this wonderful DouglasAdams lecture entitled "Parrots, The Universe and Everything", which is mostly about "Last Chance To See". At the time, it was only available as a fairly low quality stream, direct from the University of California Television website. It is still available at UCTV , but now, through the magic...
Obama-Biden won. Personally it is more of a relief than excitement. Amongst all the post-election press, I notice a strong theme revolving around how - America has shown the rest of the world the strength of its democracy - America has done what no other western democracy has done - real equality has been achieved [...]
I don't know if this is the appropriate forum, or even if this is what the blog should hold, but here's a speech from the late DouglasAdams on science and religion.
The official Last Chance To See website for the new show is now up. Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine both have video blogs on the site, and they currently have 2 episodes of the original Last Chance To See Radio Program . They say they plan to have the entire radio series up soon. More news at Another Chance To See and follow Stephen Fry on Twitter. He seems to update very frequently with news from...
In aid of Save The Rhino, the Seventh DouglasAdams Memorial Lecture will take place on March 11, 2009. The speaker this year will be explorer and broadcaster Benedict Allen . I first became aware of Benedict when he presented his inspiring 1997 "video diary" style documentary series "The Skeleton Coast" in which he trekked through the Namib desert with three grouchy camels. He followed...
Satoshi tells Masato he doesn’t need his old Windows computer. ... Satoshi : Unplugged it this morning. Come and pick it up anytime. No, no, it runs fine. Why’d I switch? Just got sick of all the wiring. ____________ Voice-over DouglasAdams (1952-2001) liked Macs but didn’t like cables. Apple must have listened, the latest ones, most things being built-in, are relatively cable-free....
... are usually a troublesome inmate that doesn't care about the rules and regulations," Cremin said.DouglasAdams, from MCI-Concord, said Addison was a "program failure."Addison was transferred from an isolation unit in Concord to Shirley in 1999, where he jailed for a year and a half.Wayne Hancock, an officer at MCI-Shirley at the time explained that the housing unit Addison was part...
In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , DouglasAdams tells the story of how the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons protest the development of a computer called Deep Thought to provide the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Lunkwill and Fook, two of the philosophers, argue, “what’s the use of our sitting up half the night arguing...
Crap facts… I love the one I got from DouglasAdams about sloths. Apparently, at a certain point where young sloths haven’t quite figured out how to sloth yet they grab their own arms instead of branches and hit the deck. I love that fact. However it has now been superseded in my mind. But you’ll have to [...]
There is nothing quite as diabolical as a device which only serves as a way of turning itself off. DouglasAdams said something to that effect. Of course, he said it much better than I ever could hope to.
Crime writer and fellow Nomad ... By the same token, and proving the prescience of DouglasAdams, I think e-book readers will revolutionize the travel guide sector, particularly as the e-readers develop more functions, and the line between them and hand-held wireless PCs blurs. When Adams was writing, the idea of a single hand-held device that contained all the known information...
Or - “In Which Projectra Makes A Fatal Error…” In his landmark third book of his (five-book-long) Hithchiker’s trilogy, the late DouglasAdams makes a reference to the seemingly absent social life of Arthur Dent, long the central character of the novels. “What is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea [...]
It was my last afternoon in London, and I went to Highgate Cemetery, which was quite close to my hostel. Karl Marx is buried there, beneath an enormous likeness of himself, and there's an odd assortment of other prominent people: George Eliot and DouglasAdams; the father of Virginia Woolf, and the baron who oversaw the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway; the inventor of Hovis...
In which the journey starts and you are drawn in ..... To paraphrase DouglasAdamsBeijing is big really big you just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist but that's just peanuts to Beijing. Karen quickly sums up the population of Beijing Holy Crap Look at all those people 17.4 Million is one of the offic
