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New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-panic dept.

Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."

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  1. Re:RA and WMA? by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were working on broadcasting it on the Sub Ether Waveband but they didn't have the necessary rights.

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  2. Any one up for a flollop? by I+Need+Beer · · Score: 2, Funny

    * Non orthopaedicly sprung life-forms are reminded that mattresses are the only sentient creatures to require regular flolloping. *

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  3. Easy enough to transcode to mp3 or ogg... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...if you have a babelfish handy.

  4. Re:There's isn't a 42 joke in here, I swear! by LordK2002 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I wish listening to American proprietary radio stations was always this easy.
    Really? I would prefer it if listening to American proprietary radio stations were made as difficult as possible.
  5. Re:HHGTTG Text Adventure by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear moderators,

    The above post actually comes just after my post on the subject, not before. 'Stephendl' obviously copied mine, only for it to be swept back through an eddy in the space-time continuum. Please moderate accordingly.

    (Apologies!)

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  6. Re:HHGTTG Text Adventure by stephendl · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always keep my watch set 5 mins before anyone else to beat everyone else ;-)

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  7. Eddies in the space-time continuum... by Serious+Simon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who's Eddy?

    1. Re:Eddies in the space-time continuum... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hi there! I'm Eddy, your shipboard computer!

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  8. I'm sorry I am tooo depressed..... by adsl · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to listen to a radio programme. I think I will go and dismantle myself. Love Marvin:(

  9. Re:RA and WMA? by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Funny
    Sure, just check your copy of the Guide.

    Okay then...

    BEEPcrkcrkcrk-BEEPcrkcrkcrk-KRCKaKRCK-BORP!
    What to do if you find yourself with a computer that's unable to play Realaudio, and you're at your wits' end with no hope of HHGTTG:

    Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far.

    Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which, given your current circumstances is more likely:

    Consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

    Grr. Pile of rubbish.
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  10. Re:RA and WMA? by six809 · · Score: 1, Funny

    And no, I'm not new here ;)

    by Malc (1751)

    Evidently :)
  11. Re:net transport by slackerboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    From their website:
    "Net Transport is the faster, terrible (very many users call from feedback) and most powerful downloading tool that you ever saw"

    I'm still trying to figure out if that's a glowing recommendation or not....

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  12. Re:RA and WMA? by dasmegabyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, moderation is very simple. Somebody agrees with you, +1, Insightful even if it's the same, tired, flawed opinion that's been posted for years. Somebody disagrees with you, -1 Troll even if it's new, perceptive and well argued.

    For example, you got a +5 for pointing out the same, tired argument that some people whine about OGG and get moderated for it. I will get modded -1 Troll, because of my vitriolic .sig.

    You know what? Fuck Slashdot. I'm going to start reading Fark, which is just as retarded but shows me boobies.

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  13. Re:timing is everything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You think we're going to Slashdot the BBC?

    HA HA HA!

    Any minute now someone is going to post a link to the map of their "content distribution system" that's available somewhere on the BBC website.

    The one that shows the redundant 4Gb links. Everywhere. And the multihomed hosting in the UK & US.

    Do your worst!

  14. well, the pause button doesn't work in firefox.... by acroyear · · Score: 2, Funny

    but, to quote marvin, "I think I feel good about it."

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  15. Re:RA and WMA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you want to see boobies, just take your XXXL T-shirt off.

  16. Re:RA and WMA? by Colonel+Cholling · · Score: 3, Funny

    not very much a fan of fantasy

    And I, and probably most slashdot readers, am not very much a fan of people who can't distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. (Failure to distinguish between science fiction and real life is, sometimes, forgivable.) I thus offer the following quick guide:

    If a story is set in some vague time period that can't figure out whether it's ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance, and features wizards and lots of square-chinned guys with poor hygeine and names like Glorn Thundertrousers, it's probably fantasy.

    If a story features spaceships, robots, time travel, lots of made-up technobabble, a high-school knowledge of physics, and lots of people in Spandex jumpsuits who are either green or have multiple heads, and have names that look like the result of a random banging on a keyboard, it's probably sci-fi.

    If a story just has columns of abbreviations and numbers and words like "liquidity" and "divestiture," you're reading the financial reports by mistake.

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