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

The invasion must be underway. Gmail just felt the need to inform me - in the space usually reserved for an ad - that "you can make a lovely hat out of used aluminium foil". No link to any external site.

I'm wearing mine already... best safe than sorry

And a handy Star wars style weapon from used fluorescent tubes

If it appears again Mala, please capture it with a screen shot. Some of those adds are really surreal and the best of them disappear before you look a second time.

But why 'used' tinfoil? Maybe the food traces add a certain something?

Well since you're using it to make the hat, i don't think you get much choice in the matter

the thing I like about the tinfoil hat is that some knowledgeable folks actually did a study of how they affected radio waves. And found that they actually amplify signals in the range 1.2GHz to 1.4GHz (which are bands allocated in the US to the Govt. for radio comms and satellites) and the 2.6GHz used by mobiles.

http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/

They conclude
"It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC."

I like geeks with time on their hands and technology to play with

What about tinfoil pants? You never can be too careful!

Well, if that's what you think with...

I went to the Dr wearing a pair of clingfilm pants. He told me:

'I can clearly see your nuts.'










ba-dam TISH!

If you're planning to make a tinfoil hat, instructions are provided here: A79689613

Those of you who cannot remember life before cable and satellite TV may not know this, but we used tinfoil to increase the reception of our 'rabbit ears' antennae, back in the day.

You don't have to predate cable to know that

But you do have to know it - no using wiki tommorrow, since they're crashing themselves for a day, curtesy of SOPA

Are they? We have the internet to ourselves, then.

indeed, it could be quiet for a change...well quiet outside our noisy bubble

average accuracy of internet articles should increase by quite a few percentage points tomorrow, then!

Depends whether they put in a redirect to Uncyclopedia

What? Uncyclopedia is the unvarnished truth!

and before you mention it, conservapedia doesn't exist on my internets.

Never mind that. Is Facebook down?

How will I be able to talk to my *real* friends?