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

Douglas Adams would have been 60 this w/e.
The BBC have this take on Adams by Monty Python star and friend Terry Jones:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17285332

Yeah I read that piece. I always thought it was a glass of water! Course, it could have been something DNA said on several occasions, with various drinks.

http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/9579835.Who_darn_it__Mystery_of_knitted_figures_on_Saltburn_pier/

There is often a cold wind blowing in off the North Sea. A scarf is just the thing.

PP

I like positive stories:

"As many as 500 young women will take to the skies today in Yellowknife as part of Women of Aviation Week.

The interrnational event runs March 5 to 11 and its aim is to increase the number of female pilots and engineers in the industry."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/03/10/north-women-aviation-week.html?cmp=rss

Brown bear uses barnacle covered rock to exfoliate. Dr Deecke declares this represents the first demonstration of the use of a tool in this species: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17264679

Doesn't pay to be a dedicated follower of fashion in Iraq http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/us-iraq-emo-killings-idUSBRE8290CY20120310

A rogue US trooper goes on a murderous rampage entering local afghan homes and shooting whomever he came across - men, women and children. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17330205

A military court in Egypt has acquitted an army doctor accused of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on women protesters, state media reports. ... The army initially denied such tests had taken place, but a senior general, speaking anonymously, later admitted that they had happened. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17330798

Lib Dem members oppose NHS reforms in conference vote.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17330939

500 new fairytales discovered in Germany. Those could make for interesting reading.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany

Anthropologists now reveal that chimpanzees mediate conflicts between other group members, not for their own direct benefit, but rather to preserve the peace within the group.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307185016.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17336833

2011's top earners in pop music according to Billboard. The one that caught my attention was Sade, at number 6.

Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show (again)

DURATION: 02:42
Ding Yu sometimes travels miles in order to hold interviews with prisoners. She is about to interview a young man who only in his early twenties, killed his girlfriend’s grandparents.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pqhp6

Researchers in Italy say they may have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci work hidden under a Florentine fresco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17337752

Locked-in syndrome sufferer wins high court hearing for his right to die

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/12/locked-in-syndrome-sufferer-court-hearing

NASA faces 'intelligent design' lawsuit from "scientist"



http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/03/12/nasa-intelligent-design-lawsuit.html

most workplace laws are based on the fact that workers are "trapped" with their coworkers and that therefore any nonwork related stuff needs to stay home... this is especially true for sex and religion
he brought dvds
his case is a waste of everyone's time and money

Benjamin Netanyahu tells the German press that Lebanon is going to be removed from future maps of the world.




http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/01-03-2012/120646-No_Lebanon_will_be_on_map-0/



I read it in Pravda on the Internet, so it must be true.

Yes, it must be true. And a rational report it is too, with no bias whatsoever.

But ...


What *did* Netanyahu say in the German interview, I wonder.