We've just stuck a pipe into the servers and pumped them full of tequila, and the result is a whole bunch of new features that will add that little Je ne sais quoi to your h2g2 surfing experience. We hope you like them.

And to celebrate the continuing success of h2g2 as we grow from an amiable start-up to a huge, cuddly community, here's a thank-you message from Douglas Adams. The Editors would also like to add our thanks to everyone who has helped to make h2g2 what it is. We salute you!

If you're British, or you've ever had the pleasure of visiting that irrepressible little bunch of islands off the north-west tip of Euroville, then you'll be aware of the importance of The Art of Queuing. But it's not just a British trait, it's a truly global phenomenon, and we're proud to bring you the inside track on what might, with the right support, one day become an Olympic sport. The British certainly hope so: they'd easily be World Champions, a rare event indeed...

Other interesting entries added today include: Tim Tams; Guinea Pigs; Lutefisk and Exams.

This selection was brought to you by the h2g2 Five-a-Day Guarantee: we promise to bring you at least five brand new official guide entries every day of your working week. You can also see all the entries put up over the last month. Impress your friends! Develop your cocktail-party conversation skills! Learn how to integrate the word 'pyknic' into everyday usage! It's all here at h2g2, the ever-growing guide to life on Earth.

It's big, it's bad and it's here to stay, but the Internet is a source of confusion for lots of us. Don't panic, though, for help is at hand in the form of our brand new Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Internet.

Whether you're struggling with the basics of surfing the web or trying to find out the best ways in which to blow virtual holes in your net-savvy friends, take a plunge into our guide and make the most of your connection to the rest of the world. We take a look at Email, Usenet, Chat, Internet Telephony, Online Gaming, the World Wide Web and Web Authoring... and as if that isn't enough, there's a comprehensive glossary of terms and acronyms, a guide to netiquette and links to the best software and sites around.

We hope you have as much fun using it as we did putting it together.

It really is proving rather fun, this Ask h2g2 section. Only the other day our Producer was telling me how he'd managed to find out the answer to a question that had perplexed him for years - why arm hair is short when head hair is long - and I discovered from the same source why adverts always sound louder than the programmes they so rudely interrupt.

You see, h2g2 is a wonderfully intelligent community, bursting with the quest for knowledge and spouting more ideas than a hyperactive child prodigy. To tap into this almost infinite resource go along and have a look at Ask h2g2 in action... and if you want to ask or answer a question yourself, fire away and wait for the response.

After all, knowledge is power, and in the absence of a carbohydrate-rich diet, we humans need all the power we can get.

Sick of spam emails? Annoyed by yet another idiot trying to sell you the secrets of life over the Internet? Then look no further than the Truth Doctor™ as described in the latest Bywater@h2g2 column. Technology: it's just wonderful.

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