Negative Space: Douglas Adams
- Congratulations, and condolences
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To those whose candidate won; congratulations. To those whose candidate lost, condolences.
- Douglas Adams goes on extended lunch break
- Acclaimed satirist plans to beat previous record set by publishing executive.
- The New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is upon us. And it’s coming from Apple.
- Ted Cruz: The anti-extremism candidate?
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Do we really have two political extremes, or do we just have two very close sides that talk extremely different? Politicians can combat the increasingly extreme rhetoric in politics by, first, doing what they promise, and promising what they can do; and, second, by using rather than bypassing the legislative process that the founders designed specifically to dampen extremism.
- Towel day is on its way
- Towel Day is on May 25 this year—just like every year—which in this case happens to be a Saturday. Here’s a video advertising Towel Day 2011 and which also contains useful information on how to handle a ravenous bugblatter beast.
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- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
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Absolutely brilliant, and what I’ve been trying to say for years: “Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources—like newspapers, television or granite. What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust, but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.”
