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  1. Skull & Bones #322
    Law.com logo Law.com 1 day ago

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blawgosphere. His next, #93, was illuminating, indeed. Kevin's third, #144, continued a numerical theme based on the number of guests at Bilbo Baggins's birthday party. Kevin was recognized with the award for Blawg Review... Full Article at Law.com

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    The chef and food entrepreneur holds the cartoon king accountable for the public's loss of appetite for the abundant free-range game that gambols and springs across our meadows and glens and aims to get it back on our dinner tables as fast as he can. ... Full Article at The Scotsman

  3. Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
    – Douglas Adams SOURCE: Wired 2 months ago
  4. Don’t Panic! – Urban Threads is Here to Help
    Craft Gossip logo Craft Gossip 4 days ago

    Please, please, please tell me that someone else squealed in delight when they saw this week’s Urban Threads freebie? What better way to celebrate Towel Day (May 25th), the once yearly celebration of author Douglas Adams, than with your very own towel,... Full Article at Craft Gossip

  5. Audiobook Review: Douglas Adams' Lost Doctor Who Story - Shada
    Suite 101 logo Suite 101 4 days ago

    Adams' unfinished Doctor Who story Shada has been adapted for audio by Gareth Roberts. So far in 2012, Doctor Who fans have been treat to a multitude of audio releases. Classic novels, exclusive stories, missing and unused television scripts and... Full Article at Suite 101

  6. Daytona Pier not finished? Let's talk about Phase 2
    Daytona Beach News-Journal logo Daytona Beach News-Journal 5 days ago

    (N-J | Steven Notaras) "I love deadlines," author Douglas Adams famously said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." If you go by the Daytona Beach Pier next week take a moment to stop and listen. You just might hear that whooshing... Full Article at Daytona Beach News-Journal

  7. After Douglas died [in 2001, aged 49], my sister Jane and I set up, for Save the Rhino, the Douglas Adams memorial lecture every year on his birthday. Always at the back of my mind was the idea that we were going to get a big venue with music and comedy and gather all his friends together.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  8. The Origin of God - Douglas Adams
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 56 months ago
  9. TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: Time to cheque out of dated payments
    Business Spectator 5 days ago

    There’s no doubt it takes effort to keep Australia’s payment system on the tracks, but the efforts by a range of industry bodies, including APCA, to ‘explore innovation’ often do read like a Douglas Adams novel. The problem for APCA, and more broadly,... Full Article at Business Spectator

  10. How To Make A Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
    Mademan.com 5 days ago

    Beeblebrox, ex-President of the Galaxy, invented the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, a beverage that is the, "Alcoholic equivalent of a mugging: expensive and bad for the head." Of course, Zaphod is a fictional character with two heads and three arms in... Full Article at Mademan.com

  11. Atheists in Hats and Cats Questioning the Bible
    Patheos Blogs 1 week ago

    I didn't know these Tumblrs needed to exist... but I'm informed that they are vital to our movement.Atheists in Hats [1]:[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="318" caption="Author Douglas Adams in a hat."] [2][/caption]Cats Questioning the Bible... Full Article at Patheos Blogs

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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
    – Douglas Adams SOURCE: Wired 2 months ago
  2. After Douglas died [in 2001, aged 49], my sister Jane and I set up, for Save the Rhino, the Douglas Adams memorial lecture every year on his birthday. Always at the back of my mind was the idea that we were going to get a big venue with music and comedy and gather all his friends together.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  3. He's not famed for his characterisation – there's no character arc ... It's about ideas. He had a totally different take. Maybe it comes from being very large? [Adams was 6ft 5in] He's the only novelist who can make ideas into page-turners and make philosophy funny. For example, he says every civilisati...
    – Douglas Adams SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago

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