Douglas Adams Acoustic Memorabilia

I checked for acoustic memorabilia of Douglas Adams on the web and found the following:

• Two interviews from 1983 and 1989 as streams and downloadable as .mp3 files on wiredforbooks.org
• Another one dating back to 1982 on The Generalist (.mp3) and one more from 1988 on thebaldheretic (stream and .mp3).
  
• Then there is this 90 minute video-streaming talk at UC Santa Barbara which he gave one month before his death in 2001.
• Lastly, a whole BBC website dedicated to Douglas Adams and H2G2, including cool Real Audio interview snippets.

Douglas Adams RIP - H2G2's 30th Birthday

One day after what would've been his 56th birthday, we'll go to the Douglas Adams Memorial lecture in the Royal Geographical Society London. It's organized by the Savetherhino Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. The lecture itself will be given by Steven Pinker and because it's the 30th birthday of "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" it'll be followed by a special performance of some of the original cast. Ahh-- really looking forward to this.

--Also check this previous post on Douglas Adams and this cool BBC production in which he describes his view on how technology changes our lives, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future.

Photolog pt. XIV - Paris & London Ten Years Ago

I just stumbled over this historical of myself in London in 1998 (on our journey through the UK and Ireland). Funnily enough one year before we also interrailed France including Paris.
So 10 years ago destiny had already sketched my pathway (or I'm just prone to patterns).

Changes in Latitudes on the Blogroll

I just updated the blogroll (to the right) and I added my friend Flor's blog 'Changes in Latitudes'.
Her insomniac posts thematically range from personal thoughts over movies to scientific matters and often include cool music videos.
Check it out!

SPAM Boosted in the UK

Wow--did you guys know that?
I just read it in Steven Pinker's Stuff of Thought and quickly looked up the details on the web.

The word SPAM is derived from SPiced hAM, a cheap luncheon meat, and the word's popularity got boosted by the following great Monty Python sketch.

German Coastguard Classic

Just a little thingy to bridge the gap between posts. Most of you probably know it already but I think it's still hilariously funny: The German coastguard's first day.

GP's Worldwide Festival 2008

Yeah!
The year starts off with some good news:
2008's Worldwide Festival in Sète, Southern France, is going to take place from July 3-5.
Even before, there's gonna be the Singapore version on May 16-18.
For details and teasers check http://www.myspace.com/worldwidefestival and http://www.worldwidefestival.com/.
I'll definitely try again to go there.

Worldwide Festival Teaser