Douglas Adams wrote this 10 years ago, a wonderful little discussion about how people were reacting to this new thing called the internet. It’s all good (read the full text here) but I especially like this bit: I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, […]
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,’ a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried […]
From the series “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”: Charming man. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one… “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” “But,” say Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? […]