Today is Pi Day. It’s March the 14th. You might write that as 3.14. Pi. As you know, Pi is an impressive value. It enables all sorts of mathematical wizardy. Can we make it better? Yes, we can increase it by elite. In other words; leet or 1337. What is 1337% of Pi? Everything. That’s […]
John Dies At the End review
This is a happy story. David Wong had a dull and hard data entry job. When that finished he’d go to his other dull and hard data entry job. Somehow he found time to pull together some thoughts for publication on the web. A few people read these words in the first year. That’s the […]
Happy Towel Day with pictures! #towelday
Today is Towel Day. This is a yearly celebration and tribute to the legend Douglas Adams. Today you should, as the wise one advised, carry a towel with you. You should tweet with #towelday as a hashtag. You should upload a picture to Flickr and tag it “towelday” and if you want you can even […]
New Dirk Gently’s Holistic Dectective Agency series coming
The BBC will be showing a new Dirk Gently Holistic Dectective Agency series. It’ll show on BBC Four. Fans of Fisfits, Vexed and Merlin will be interested to know that Howard Overman, who writes for all three, is responsible for the adaptation of the famous Douglas Adams’ novel. Dirk Gently will be played by Stephen […]
The Douglas Adams’ Fail/Fall Whale t-shirt
The most famous whale before the ToT (time of Twitter) must have been the unfortunate Fall Whale created by Douglas Adams. Let’s take a peek at how the BBC’s Radio adaptation coped with the falling whale. It’s not surprising that this icon of geek culture has made it to ThinkGeek. Yes; in t-shirt form.
