The HitchHiker's Guide in Your Pocket

gilest was the first to tell us about Douglas Adams' newest development: a real life Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The first version should be out next year, with a monster amount of content. Over the next couple years, they expect to incorporate GSM, and have a modem and Internet connection in the box. And, of course, they'll put the "Don't Panic" in large-friendly letters on the front of the machine.

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Re:Far back, in the uncharted backwaters...

[Mr. Slippery]

(I still keep in towel in my car. I'm comfortable with how big a geek that proves me to be.)

Once, some years ago, I was on a date with a woman (it happens occasionally) when it began to rain as we were walking back to my car. We got soaked.

I reached in the back seat and handed her...my towel.

"You keep a towel in your car?" she asked, incredulously. She was not a geek girl. Very pretty, but not a geek girl. I think she thought it was really strange to keep a towel in the car, despite the fact that it was right then an incredibly useful thing to have.

Hmmm, maybe in the personals ad I placed recently I should have said, "ISO a woman who knows where her towel is."