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

To be honest, once I'd read the line, "The children are in the care of the parents of their father" - I couldn't care less whether they get a suspended sentence - as long as the kids are out of there.

>He's outlived them all. Tarzan. Trigger. Ronald Reagan. Now, retired in Palm Springs, the world's oldest chimp gets some stuff off his chest.<

Cheeta speaks: http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-cheeta16apr22,0,3519768.story?page=1&coll=la-home-magazine

Very well written article! An anthropomorphic entry such as this one can degenerate into cutesy cutesy very easily, but the article just used the first person (ape?) viewpoint as a framework for building up a fascinating story about captive animals and the relationship between ourselves and our ape cousins generally.

The following picture of Cheeta reinforces some of the points made in the article.

http://cheetathechimp.org/images/che4big.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6583067.stm

"Singer Sheryl Crow has said the amount of toilet paper we use should be limited to help the environment.
Crow suggests using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".


So many things I could say I certainly wouldn't want to shake hands with her.

In Slovakia there are in fact establishments where you are handed one square of toilet paper by the attendant as you go in. The squares are neatly laid out in rows on a small table at the entrance.
Cheryl Crow's brilliant idea is nothing new or revolutionary.

I'm strictly a half-roll at a time man myself. I love the reverberating rythym of a rattling loo-roll.

Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6584481.stm

42 days he has been missing
strange

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6584229.stm

"kryptonite" discovered.

Shame about the rule for naming elements though.

I'm sorry - this is just horrible and nightmarish.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1905603.htm

'Molten metal spill engulfs 32 Chinese workers'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6586879.stm

"A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant.
Police were forced to use CS gas to restrain the man.."

I'm sorry, but if my penis were cut off, the police would have to use a heckuva lot more than CS gas to restrain me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6584011.stm

Research opens way for bionic eye
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6585367.stm

The Goat News Story That Just Won't Die.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2063975,00.html

I feel a little better about popping the old story here now!

I thought I'd been seeing that at #1 in the stories list for a whiole, but 14months?

unfortunately there's no pictorial evidence to "back it up" - the goat's version of events, I mean.

the BBC news's tracking of the countdown to the ban on smoking.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6583445.stm

death of boris yeltsin

Traveller in Time getting dizzy
"< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm >
A year lasts 13 days, that makes a day 42 minutes ?

Inhabitants will have superstrength as they have to cope with nearly twice the earth gravitation.

I can imagine they calculated the average mass of the planet, just how do they figure out the composition ? "

spectroscopy most likely, er... when the planet passes in front of the light from the star it produces a wobble that gives away the planet's mass and the light from the atmosphere can yeild the chemicals present.

I think that's how they do it.