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A towel [...] is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons

Can it really be 42 years since the first transmission of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I do not remember exactly when I got into it. I heard some of the radio programmes, but back then you had

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff

It looks like there will be another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. It will be based on And Another Thing... that was written by Eoin Colfer after Douglas Adams died far too early at 49.

Here's another instance of an author dying too soon. Douglas Adams died at 49 in 2001. He's probably best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that has been a radio series, a trilogy of five

I was planning to buy an Amazon Dot personal assistant before Christmas, but a Black Friday discount pushed me into ordering it a little earlier. Unfortunately it hasn't arrived yet. I'll be sure to report

We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere...