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

There are just over 40 entries in the Spaced Out Guide. Please submit way more. i don't mind if you just post any old entries that you wrote ages ago that is totally not suitable for the EG and isn't even good quality, just subit it, and it'll go in. I accept everything.

However, if you want to write a piece for the Spaced Out Guide, and you'd like an idea of the things i'd like the most, then here it is:

- Douglas Adams Humour

Try to write entries about real world things in a funny way, making up practically everything about them. That's what i'm really after. However, the Spaced Out Guide is also about community. Submit anything and it goes in. Submit enries to the Spaced Out Guide to become a part of a growing community there. It doesn't matter how good the entries are, but the fact that you have taken the time to write them and submit them, and that they will become a part of a growing element of Spaced Outness on h2g2.

The Spaced Out Guide can be found at A961986. Submit anything. Entries for the Spaced Out Guide. Ideas for the Spaced Out Guide. Your volunteer services for the Spaced Out Guide (searching h2g2 for entries from long gone researchers or active researchers that would be good for the guide).

And remember, I and the Spaced Out Guide need you, the community.

spook

That matches well with an idea I had earlier today. Various people seem to be part of a movement to strip all the humorous DNA-style entries (don't know if he actually wrote any of them) out of the EG. I think that where possible every entry should be in duplicate - the HHGTTG version and the "sensible" version. They could be:

1. in the same entry - ie a short silly one at the top saying "the HHGTTG had this to say about ..." as a sort of disclaimer and separated from the real entry by a horizontal rule.

2. separate entries but linking to each other (ie in serial).

3. separate entries in parallel - ie having the same number but requiring a different skin, site or code letter (eg Z-number) to access. This would have been easy if done from the start but is probably too hard to implement now.

i would support people writing a humourous version which would be in the Spaced Out Guide, and a sensible version going in the EG. that would be a smart way to have a guide full of humour and a guide full of sensibility.

spook