h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ookpiks (or Ukpik, or uppik in Inuktitut).... http://www.ookpik.org/

Not to be confused with:
Ikpik: steep edge of a mesa
eqalukpik : Arctic char (or salmon, depending, I think, on the dialect or the pronunciation)
kakpik: needlecase
oqpik: willow

I just took another wander past the Community Art Requests page http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/RF22 (where our Community Art Request continues to languish unnoticed) and I noticed that they say that photographs are not allowed. This rule could pose difficulties for the favoured banner design.

Does anyone understand what is happening in Europe? I get the impression that the Euro-Bureaucracy is about to take all the fun out of cyberspace. It seems that private communications interests are lobbying to dismantle all websites run by 'national' public broadcasters. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F99028?thread=602960&post=6672151#p6672151 ~jwf~

Holy Cr@p!

I find it interesting (read: scary) that the EU and the US view "public broadcasting" as either undermining society or as somehow "getting a free ride".

I am speechless..... Which, of course, is just what they want.

One more reason for us all to work in opposition to the 'globalisation' juggernaut.

Oh, how the multinational corporations hate the 'net!

For another example of the thinly veiled assault on Internet freedom --

http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html#situ