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

I had the good fortune to see him 3 times in the 80s. What a performer!

RF

Oh, interesting, kea:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196949/benefits_of_google_encrypted_search.html

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/03/how-to-enable-disable-encrypted-search-in-google-chrome/

Very hard to believe Freddie Mercury died 20 years ago.

Ben

I only found it because I have a habit of typing the first letter or two of a URL as a way of accessing a website (and the browser autofills the rest), and for some reason that came up instead of google.co.nz.

google.com usually converts automatically to .co.nz, but now only if it has the http at the start (www goes to the https site).

From your second link:

>>Searches conducted via Google encrypted search are not archived in history and won't appear in the autofill during a subsequent search.

That would be annoying for me, I use history a bit to find things I've looked at before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8741526/Freddie-Mercury-Day-is-celebrated-with-Google-doodle.html

Another nice one today


And I found the conversation using h2g2's very own Search feature! How cool is that?

And meanwhile, I have forgotten what it is I wanted to google in the first place

I did the exact same thing!

WOW!

The Stanislaw Lem one was fantastic! I really enjoyed that

Mol

... I've been digging through my backlog to find this thread to say the same thing. I gave up after about 15 pages (NaPoJoMo is really creating a long convos list) and remembered that search works in convos again. I find it and you beat me to it, Mol.

It's not on the US version (Thanksgrifting has that covered). I saw the Lem one on http://www.google.fr

It's not on the Canadian one either. We just get the boring old regular google page.

I quite enjoyed that. Someone has too much time on their hands.


Someone at google as well.

Thats amazing!

Cool. A whole interactive story thing. They really are putting a lot of work into them lately.


Geggs

That was 10 minutes of my life incredibly well spent.

Absolutely. And the same feeling from my coworkers too.

It took me all of ten minutes to get past 1 + 2 =
but once I'd figgered out how to turn a 3 upside
down I did a couple more and then the big robot
exploded and it moved on to even more perplexing
puzzles which still have me baffled.

Clicking on the fluttery moth thing does some
weird stuff but they never stay up long enough
to understand. Dotted circles like the capture
area in a draw program?

Still trying to suss out the waveform puzzles.
I assume there are still more levels?


~jwf~

I was doing it on a netbook screen, so I couldn't see the whole doodle at once. I forgot I could have shrunk it using the touchpad thingy

You're nearly there, jwf. I found the cannon one the hardest.

Mol

Yea, the cannon is timing. Click earlier than you think you need to.

The wave thing is fairly simple. The first button changes the shape of the wave (you want square). The second changes the wavelength and the third changes the amplitude. Adjust until they match up.

Got thru!
Not sure how. But after the cannon it came up
with a needle and a bowl noodles and tinker-toy
robot that all too soon went haywire and everything
unravelled leaving a blank page. Fun to watch, not sure
what it meant or how much input I had in it.

Here's a link that appeared after all that:
http://tinyurl.com/bq326zu


~jwf~

From Lem's story, the big robot can make anything that starts with an 'N'. So he made a needle, noodles and then Nothing. Poof everything goes away.

Ah!!!
Thanks, BG.


I was just saying yesterday in another thread
that Marshall McLuhan understood how Nothing
can really be Something. He suggested that doors
and windows are the absence of Walls, and thus we
are aided by the nothingness there-of. So that which
is nothing becomes a helpful something.

Yes, it was in the Dawkins thread. I was trying to show
how God can be appreciated even by those who say
there is no such thing, because from that Nothingness
so many Somethings have evolved.

~jwf~