Douglas Adams
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Virtual iPhone Phrasebook Brings Us Closer to the 'Babel Fish'In Douglas Adams's best-selling novel The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler could stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines' iLingual iPhone app... In this article: Iphone, Emirates, Douglas Adams, French fries, E mail, Wired.com, Itunes, and The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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Wired: Epicenter | 1 day ago
iLingual's Virtual Phrasebook App Brings Us Closer to the 'Babel Fish'
Douglas Adams's fictitious invention, the Babel fish organism, from his best-selling novel The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, fits into the ear so that the listener can understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines' iLingual...
In this article: Iphone, Wired.com, Itunes, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and London
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11 Ways Geeks Measure the World
...there is more magic than that around, measuring it should not be your primary concern. Sheppey (distance) I have to include Douglas Adams' co-creation (with John Lloyd) here - It's from 'The Meaning of Liff', their dictionary of things...
In this article: Twitter, Jamie Hyneman, Isle of Sheppey, Robert Scoble, and E mail
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2009 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #4: More Books
...the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. I know, most people believe the story ended with the last book and with the death of Douglas Adams. Did you really want that to be it for Arthur, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin? Did you really...
In this article: Mathematics, Scary Go Round, Robert Jordan, and Charles Platt
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AP Online | 7 days ago
Pakistan army shows off gains near Afghan border
...guide; the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry and - bizarrely - the science fiction comedy "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams. Pakistan has been criticized in the past for not attacking militants who do not pose a...
In this article: Taliban, Pakistan Army, Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States, Al-qaida, and Suicide
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | November 15, 2009
Driven to despair
...Zanna lies smack dab in the middle of the proposed extension of the Trans-Israel Highway, otherwise known as Highway Six. In Douglas Adams's Science fiction classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the main character, Arthur Dent, is...
In this article: Tin, Conscription, Tax, Goat, Dog, and Arthur Dent
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San Jose Mercury News | November 13, 2009
New authors breathe fresh life into orphaned characters
...would come up where you could say, 'Don't panic!' " Of course, it's not so easy to replicate Adams' idiosyncratic creation. Adams said he first got the idea for "Galaxy" while lying on his back in a field in Austria, slightly drunk,...
In this article: Dracula, Eoin Colfer, Bram Stoker, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Dent
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Bleacher Report | November 13, 2009
Duke Basketball Tips Off Short Handed Friday Night But Don't Panic
...indefinitely due to a fractured bone in his wrist. It would be easy for Duke fans to begin to worry but in the immortal words of Douglas Adams "Don't Panic." If there were ever a time to be without two starters, both of whom will be back,...
In this article: Nolan Smith, Don't Panic, Duke Blue Devils, and Surgery
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Colfer's 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Sequel Will Be His Last
...Artemis Fowl books put him on a tier similar to J.K. Rowling's and made him a natural choice to pick up where Adams left off when he died unexpectedly in 2001 at age 49. But Colfer didn't jump immediately at the opportunity when it came up...
In this article: Eoin Colfer, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wired.com, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, 11th Doctor, and Ford Prefect
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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, as well as a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.
He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Known to his fans as "Bop Ad" after his illegible signature, Adams became known as an advocate for animals and the environment, a lover of fast cars, cameras, and the Apple Mac, and a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" The biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book, The God Delusion, to Adams, writing on his death that, "[s]cience has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."
- Birth Date:
- March 11, 1952
- Birthplace:
- Cambridge, England
- Death Date:
- May 11, 2001
- Place of Death:
- Santa Barbara, California
- Occupation:
- Writer
- Influenced By:
- Richard Dawkins, Monty Python, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, P. G. Wodehouse
- Website:
- http://www.douglasadams.com/
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