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

It's been corrected now - it said Amy at first (my cached version of the page shows that) but when I refreshed it, it said Lentilla

Good luck Z, Happy Birthday Hati, and hope goes well Ben.

Should I ever get some spare money together I shall look at getting a flat to rent (my pension was screwed up by the bank, and it lost most of it's value so I am ~ 5 years behind where I wanted to be )

Quick asking point, The radio played a big chunk of Jeff Waynes 'War of the Worlds' this morning.

It reminded me how, when I played it to a bunch of mates staying in a rural cottage on a dark windy night, the late twenty somethings got quite spooked by it.

I grew up with it and love it, but had to take it of, as some as the others got rattled.(Ulla!)

Anybody else experienced this?

Is that the music from the classic film version? I don't think I've ever really listened to it although I have seen the movie.

I did once hear Orson Well's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, properly put in the context of the time. Understanding the context did make it very spooky, and easy to understand why so many people were convinced that Martians really were invading.

And happy birthday, Hati.

Is the mini-foop over or did it not happen yet? I always find that saying something happens at midnight leads to confusion, but I usually assume it means the evening of the day named, so midnight Tuesday would be later today.

Peta just confirmed on the DNA Announcements page that the mini-foop is coming up this evening.

*Fastens seatbelt and makes sure it's tight.*

*checks that there is a bottle of ready*

Cassie will be pleased if it means she can sit on my lap, instead of my having the laptop in her way. She doesn't approve of the wireless connection at all. Of course, I could just have an early night and read Patricia Cornwell's latest Kay Scarpetta book.

d'E, I think Tocc was talking of a musical version of War of the Worlds written and produced by Jeff Wayne. It was done in the late 70's I think and was a double album back then. I have the double CD version of it.
It had people such as Richard Burton as the narrator, David Essex, Phil Lynott, Julie Covington and Justin Hayward among others.

Oh and listening to the mellifluous narration of Burton is fantastic.
As for genre, this would deffinately come under 'prog rock concept album'.

[Ben]

Well we had a nice chat, I'm still not sure if she knows about my past, but I'll suggest weekday drinks sometime this week when I'm free, which isn't very. I've got a gliding club social tonight, real ale society tomorrow and somewhere along the time some revision

I love the war of the worlds it's a fantasic CD.

Will post more when Im not late for a lecturte.

Happy birthday, Hati.

Hi all, especially Courtesy 38 who pointed me in this direction. Happy Birthday Hati .

I held my first pagan moot last night and got 2 rounds of applause and a group hug! Anyone want to celebrate with me?

*brings in an apple pie with ice cream*

Tatatamm!

*comes in just in time to see the apple pie brought in*

Well, that's most disconcerting that I got the wrong midnight. Given the number of ways of describing time, I think the BBC should be more specific. Zero hundred hours GMT on Wednesday. As someone who has studied astrology, I have long been used to measuring from the very beginning of a day and calling that midnight.

I shall go make a suggestion to the ptb.

[LTP]
My mye the news today is rather interesting,schools exam system,discussed at lenth a couple of weeks ago!ten years to fully impliment(i think the intertputation of regs alone will need 5)
then the amount of time to retrain teachers that are still comeing to grips with the latest change.

Data Protection act
43 different inturputations on what to keep and what not to keep!

Imigration and the EU (Czecslovacia ?) has decided to half its benifits paid to dependents ,soon it will too be part of the EU and many of those who have been ostrazised will be able to relocate ,another headache for tony interesting next few weeks,isnt life fun

Indeed, it is great fun, just so long as you don't want to complain about the Prezzydent

Five convicted of thinking bad thoughts

(okay the headline is mine but the rest is legit. You can get any colour of shirt you want at the general store in Crawford Texas, as long as the colour is brown)

Associated Press


Five peace activists arrested last year en route to a demonstration outside President Bush's ranch were convicted Monday of violating the city's protest ordinance.

A jury deliberated about 90 minutes before returning the guilty verdicts for the five on the Class C misdemeanor of violating Crawford's parade and procession ordinance.

"It's an overall picture of the complacency of our nation and how the president has this sort of no-protest zone around him at all times," Amanda Jack, 23, of Austin, one of the defendants, said in a story in Tuesday's Waco Tribune-Herald. "It's completely absurd that you can't even get near the peoples' president. You can't even petition your own government representative."

The Crawford ordinance required 15 days' notice and $25 before the chief of police could issue a permit to protest within the city. The rule has since changed to allow for a seven-day notice.

The five, who were given fines ranging from $200 to $500, plan to appeal.

Tricia Major, who was the first of the five arrested, wasn't surprised by the verdict.

"I think that we had a jury of people who live in a small town, so they're going to have to face their neighbors and their public officials and their law enforcement personnel every day," said Major, 43, of Dallas. "We're not the most popular people in this town, and it would take an enormous amount of courage to bring back an innocent verdict."

The attorney for the five said they were not demonstrating at the time of their arrests. They were stopped by a police blockade in May and some had gotten out of their cars to try to negotiate with the officers, according to testimony. Trip organizer Lisa Fithian had testified that some took out their protest signs to show them to the officers.

Tidmore testified that a person wearing political buttons without a permit could violate a city ordinance that requires prior notice before a protest or parade.

[{Courtesy}]

[Z]

If I haven't missed it already, happy birthday, Hati! Here, take an inflatable squid.

While I do feel that the protesters shouldn't be fined for nearly that much, and while I do feel that waiting so very long just isn't fair, I do see the point in not permitting it under the circumstances.

I'm not saying that I agree with the law here, but it was still there. This is more of a problem for Don Diego Delavega than it is for Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Why do peace protestors feel that they have the right to violate the law? what makes them so special? I've seen the same thing on campus all the time. Groups feel like they are morally right, so they don't have to play by the rules.

There was a group here that went into a lecture and started heckling and shouting down the speaker, b/c they didn't agree with his views. Regardless of the views, that speaker had reserved that room, and had the right to present them to his audience.