In any case, Mr Very Scary Blunkett started out describing it as an anti-terrorist measure, but since it was pointed out that the ID card would have minimal usefulness in combating terrorism, he's mainly been selling it on its benefits for xenophobic borderline racist anti-immigration purposes instead. It's now meant to stop dirty disease-ridden foreign benefit tourists coming to the UK to live like kings on social security and steal our jobs (what, while they're living on benefits?), houses and health services, at least that's how he's been selling it to the gutter press. Which seems to have gone down a lot better with the public.
People with pirated copies of Windows aren't going to migrate to Linux / a BSD / whatever because of limited access to a patch. They're already quite prepared to run insecure Windows, why would this change? How would they run their pirated copies of Office or their pirated Windows games on a non-Windows OS?
If I deposit my savings at a bank, that doesn't make it the bank's property. Perhaps they *manage* over $1-trillion of other people's assets.
The money you put into the bank isn't the bank's asset, it's the bank's liability. It's money you've lent to the bank to do stuff with until you want it back. In return for this favour, the bank usually pays you some interest.
A bank's assets are the loans it makes, which it can call in at some point in the future. If a (very small theoretical) bank has 1000 dollars on deposit, and has made 2000 dollars in loans, that bank has assets of 1000 dollars, not -1000.
Remember, this isn't a Movie, this is a TV series - there has in fact been a 'Doctor Who' cinematic release project stranded in 'production limbo' for at least a decade, and it's still there now... This one's very, very real. As 'some random bloke on the Internet', obviously it's hard for me to get across just how rock-solid this return to TV is, but suffice it to say that with the amount of press coverage it's had so far in the UK, it would be mind-bogglingly embarrassing for the BBC if anything stopped it now. Even the appointment of Michael Grade, who cancelled the original show, as BBC Chairman isn't a factor - he's said 'as long as I don't have to watch it, it's nothing to do with me now'. It's been front page news in all the national newspapers, repeatedly, speculation about the casting of the Companion is rife at the moment, the Times had an editorial about it just yesterday.
It is pretty clear that this series is *not* being made for fans, but for the mainstream UK Saturday night audience, so distracting nods to the past, like Tom Baker flashbacks or gratuitous appearances by Paul McGann are fairly unlikely - this show will be expected to build on the public's affection for the original 26-year run, but will survive or not on its own merits as a piece of 2005 TV. And with Russell T Davies, the finest writer in British TV, at the helm, it stands a very good choice. He always worked for the commercial channels before, and every time the BBC said 'what would it take to get you to work here?', he's said 'Give me Doctor Who and I'll be there tomorrow.' He's been an active part of fandom for well over a decade now.
I would hope the one thing they'd bring back from the WHO telemovie was the hint of a romantic interest. Traveling 900 years in a Tardis would make the Doctor just a tad bit interested in acquiring "some."
Well, it's unlikely that the Doctor will be snogging the girl again - in the UK this was widely seen as a very weird change in the character put there, like so many things in the 1996 TV Movie, against the wishes of the writer and director at the insiste3nce of the FOX network, and as an experiment that backfired. On the other hand, as Christopher Eccleston said in his lates interview "The Doctor's got two hearts - does that mean they can both be broken?", and he and Russell Davies have both said they want and need a lot more emotional depth to capture a modern audience.
I will also drink to SciFi picking up the US rights to the relaunch.
It's unlikely to be Sci-Fi. There's no word as yet as to US distribution specifics, but they're looking at the major cable networks first before they even consider the specialists.
Here is the BBC's website for the new series, such as it is so far. Probably the best site for trustworthy news about the series is Outpost Gallifrey, a site even the BBC recommends for breaking Doctor Who news. Shaun Lyon, the editor, has very, very good contacts and has for years had a very strong editorial policy of only posting news once it's been shown to have at least reasonable provenance.
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I'll believe it when I see it. After all, it took well over twenty years for Spider-Man to make it to the theatres after the original announcements
It's in production. The executive producers are Russell T Davies (author of Queer As Folk, Second Coming and Bob & Rose), Mal Young (BBC Head of Continuing Drama Serials) and Julie Gardner (BBC Wales Head of Drama). Line Producer is Phil Collinson, Head of Casting is Andy Pryor, Script Editors are Elwen Rowlands and Helen Raynor. The thriteen, 45-minute episodes are currently being written by Davies, Paul Cornell, Steve Moffat (Coupling author), Mark Gatiss (League Of Gentlemen) and Rob Shearman.
Filming at BBC Wales is booked to start in July this year. The Doctor has been cast - Christopher Eccleston (Second Coming, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later), and story titles have been announced for some of the 1st season (episode 1 - 'Rose', episode 2 'The End Of The World', episodes 9 and 10 'Aliens Of London' (the Steve Moffat episodes) and episodes 12-13 - 'The Parting Of The Ways'.)
While rumours that the budget will be a milion pounds per episode have been dismissed, Mal Young has confirmed that the new series has one of the highest budgets of any BBC Drama ever.
Oh, and Russell Davies has said that it will *definitely* be a continuation of the original series, and is, emphatically, not a reboot.
This is definitely going to happen. It's already happening. The BBC are plugging it as the flagship of their Saturday night schedules next year.
Jeff Minter is LlamaSoft. He wrote a number of very classic games on a variety of 8-bit platforms, several of which are available as freeware from Llamasoft here, including Gridrunner, Attack Of The Mutant Camels, Headbangers Heaven, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Hover Bovver, Sheep In Space, Mama Llama, Batalyx, the Atari ST version of Defender II, Llamatron, Defender II for the Jaguar and , not a game as such, the Trip-A-Tron.
Jeff Minter was an 8-bit god, and as you might guess from the names and his long-term handle 'Yak' has a bit of a thing about ungulates.
Arrant nonsense. I was 17 years old. A small four person company half a mile from my home was a market leader in producing exam study guides, and I needed a job in the school holiday. Amstrad PC-compatible computers with a massive 512 kB of memory and not one but TWO (yes, two, and they were double-density I might add) 5 1/2 inch floppy drives had just become available on the high street when a 'real computer' would have cost UKP5000 at the bare minimum. WP 4.1 on PC-DOS was outrageously cheap compared to the alternative. Most of the money went on the single IBM daisywheel printer and the custom font wheels.
There was no Linux, there was no Internet to download freeware or research the alternatives (there was mail-order, yes), there weren't consumer grade laser printers; without getting too 'four yorkshiremen', Hercules made the job a whole lot easier, and the right tools for the job, then as now, were those tools which were available and affordable and usable by people whose speciality was mathematics education, not computers.
Word and WP would be the wrong tools for a big publisher in 2004 obviously, but for a small educational specialist in 1987, WP was a good choice, as proven by the success of the products we were typesetting.
My first ever 'computer job' was typesetting maths textbooks in WordPerfect 4. Pretty much all the work was done in the Reveal Codes panel, and it took a long time for me to accept that, in the face of its glaring and unforgivable lack of this feature, MS Word might actually have some features that were quite handy. Working in the Reveal Codes panel in WP was pretty much a case of programming the printer (at a fairly high level). The precision and control was wonderful. As you say, after that, HTML in 1994 looked like a somewhat feature-poor clone.
I can't imagine that MS put a lot of effort into their C++ compiler it they want everyone to migrate to their own language (C#, that is), but then again I'm not an MS fanboy, so what do I know?As a self-confessed 'microsoft fanboy', I'd imagine that they put at least as much, if not more effort into the C++ compiler as they do into the C# or VB.net compilers, since C++ is what they use to write those compilers, their Longhorn OS, the overwhelming majority of the.net framework class libraries and the headline application and server products like Office and SQL Server.
If it was a UK law it would have a meaningful name (such as "The Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984" or "The Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Act 1996")which gave at least some indication as to what it covered, rather than an obscure semi-random string of characters whose relevance to anything is unclear.
or: As well as using the internet to rally and energise the American Public into voting for them, they are going to use it to further alienate and annoy everyone outside the US without a vote in the US elections with pop-ups? Are they that out of touch that they believe these pop-ups are actually going to be limited to US voters only?
I didn't see: what happens if they don't comply, or comply 1/2 and it's found that it doesn't cut it?
if they 'comply 1/2' then they haven't complied, and if they don't comply they earn an additional penalty of 3 billion Euros per year until they DO comply.
So where do I buy an old beaten up laptop bag to go with my shiny new laptop? Thanks for the stellar advice.
That one's easy at least. Get one from a charity shop and take it out with you. It's a handy piece of luggage on the way out, and camouflage on the way back.
Setting the laptop up should help pass the hours in the sky, too.
It's all hypothetical now, of course, but bear in mind that back in 1970, when they cast Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, he was a stalwart of light entertainment, working almost entirely in comedy in film, TV and radio. Jon lasted 5 years in the role and can easily give Tom Baker a serious run in the popularity stakes. In contrast, the first Doctor, William Hartnell was pretty much typecast as a thug or a tough Army sergeant before getting the role.
There's slightly more to it than that the BBC trademarked the blue box as part of the preparations for the 1996 TV Movie, the Metropolitan Police appealed to get the Trademark back so they could charge the BBC for using the Box, and eventually (October 2002) the judgement fell in favour of the BBC. details
Coverage in the US is pretty patchy these days, but the This Week guide at the excellent Outpost Gallifrey site is a good place to look for TV listings. For any other background information about the show, the Outpost's Guides section is as good as you'll find anywhere.
Unless you buy the "Brain Of Morbius" version of Time Lord lifecycles, in which case there were eight other Doctors prior to William Hartnell (this was flatly contradicted in other scripts later in the series, but was very much the intention of the production team at the time) whose faces appear on the screen of the mind-wrestling machine.
SO looking forward to this new series. We have another tall, intense, slightly alien-looking insanely charismatic actor in the role, the best Drama writer in the UK, a budget reported in today's press as around a million pounds per episode, scripts by not only Russell T Davis but also Paul Cornell, Mark Gatiss, Steve Moffat and Rob Shearman, each of whom has a fine professional track record, and the show still has the charisma to get immediate coverage across the UK national media.
Indeed, it's very unlikely that Clemens would have intended to say that you should never, ever get involved in Open-sourced software. After all, Clemens is the maintainer of DasBlog, a BSD-licensed weblogging engine for ASP.net, forked from Chris Anderson (M'oft employee)'s earlier BSD'ed BlogX software.
Since newTelligence AG's site is currently slashdotted, here's the Google Cache edition of the dasBlog homepage. And here's the GotDotNet collaborative workspace hosting the Source Code for dasBlog.
Give Clemens' letter a bit of thought - it's not the ravings of an anti-FOSS demagogue after all, but the view of a successful software businessman who also maintains some very useful Open-sourced software.
Great that these folks ripped out the innards of the scam device.
At the risk of an accusation of flamebait, as far as I can see from the scant information in TFA, it looks like these people removed evidence from a crime scene. Self-sufficient hacker-culture vigilante bravado aside, wouldn't it have been better to inform the bank and / or the police rather than destroying the evidence which might have eventually led to a prosecution?
As things stand, removing the Reader from the crime scene may in itself have been a crime.
Bear in mind, this is Woody's Office Watch, not some pseudo-random bunch of reviewers. I've been subscribed to WOW for 6 years now, Woody Leonhard's a M'oft 'MVP', has written a slew of Office and Windows related books with M'oft endorsement, and the history of WOW raising serious problems in Office apps and seeing M'oft sit on its hands and do nothing is all too long. The Office 97 Excel Recalculation Bug went something like nine months and a whole Service Pack before M'oft issued and withdrew a flawed patch for it. And yet on other occasions the issues have been fixed very quickly. Over the years a pattern has formed, and the reaction to the XL2k3 RAND() bug fits the pattern for a bug that M'oft simply don't give a damn about.
This is more analogous to Ralph Nader and automotive safety, way back when.
Nothing in the radio show is from the book, as the radio show came first. Obviously this required verbal exposition in the radio show to actually tell the story.
Not passage from "the book", passages from "The Book" (as in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, starring Peter Jones as The Book")
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In any case, Mr Very Scary Blunkett started out describing it as an anti-terrorist measure, but since it was pointed out that the ID card would have minimal usefulness in combating terrorism, he's mainly been selling it on its benefits for xenophobic borderline racist anti-immigration purposes instead. It's now meant to stop dirty disease-ridden foreign benefit tourists coming to the UK to live like kings on social security and steal our jobs (what, while they're living on benefits?), houses and health services, at least that's how he's been selling it to the gutter press. Which seems to have gone down a lot better with the public.
People with pirated copies of Windows aren't going to migrate to Linux / a BSD / whatever because of limited access to a patch. They're already quite prepared to run insecure Windows, why would this change? How would they run their pirated copies of Office or their pirated Windows games on a non-Windows OS?
If I deposit my savings at a bank, that doesn't make it the bank's property. Perhaps they *manage* over $1-trillion of other people's assets.
The money you put into the bank isn't the bank's asset, it's the bank's liability. It's money you've lent to the bank to do stuff with until you want it back. In return for this favour, the bank usually pays you some interest.
A bank's assets are the loans it makes, which it can call in at some point in the future. If a (very small theoretical) bank has 1000 dollars on deposit, and has made 2000 dollars in loans, that bank has assets of 1000 dollars, not -1000.
Remember, this isn't a Movie, this is a TV series - there has in fact been a 'Doctor Who' cinematic release project stranded in 'production limbo' for at least a decade, and it's still there now... This one's very, very real. As 'some random bloke on the Internet', obviously it's hard for me to get across just how rock-solid this return to TV is, but suffice it to say that with the amount of press coverage it's had so far in the UK, it would be mind-bogglingly embarrassing for the BBC if anything stopped it now. Even the appointment of Michael Grade, who cancelled the original show, as BBC Chairman isn't a factor - he's said 'as long as I don't have to watch it, it's nothing to do with me now'. It's been front page news in all the national newspapers, repeatedly, speculation about the casting of the Companion is rife at the moment, the Times had an editorial about it just yesterday.
It is pretty clear that this series is *not* being made for fans, but for the mainstream UK Saturday night audience, so distracting nods to the past, like Tom Baker flashbacks or gratuitous appearances by Paul McGann are fairly unlikely - this show will be expected to build on the public's affection for the original 26-year run, but will survive or not on its own merits as a piece of 2005 TV. And with Russell T Davies, the finest writer in British TV, at the helm, it stands a very good choice. He always worked for the commercial channels before, and every time the BBC said 'what would it take to get you to work here?', he's said 'Give me Doctor Who and I'll be there tomorrow.' He's been an active part of fandom for well over a decade now.
I would hope the one thing they'd bring back from the WHO telemovie was the hint of a romantic interest. Traveling 900 years in a Tardis would make the Doctor just a tad bit interested in acquiring "some."
Well, it's unlikely that the Doctor will be snogging the girl again - in the UK this was widely seen as a very weird change in the character put there, like so many things in the 1996 TV Movie, against the wishes of the writer and director at the insiste3nce of the FOX network, and as an experiment that backfired. On the other hand, as Christopher Eccleston said in his lates interview "The Doctor's got two hearts - does that mean they can both be broken?", and he and Russell Davies have both said they want and need a lot more emotional depth to capture a modern audience.
I will also drink to SciFi picking up the US rights to the relaunch.
It's unlikely to be Sci-Fi. There's no word as yet as to US distribution specifics, but they're looking at the major cable networks first before they even consider the specialists.
Here is the BBC's website for the new series, such as it is so far. Probably the best site for trustworthy news about the series is Outpost Gallifrey, a site even the BBC recommends for breaking Doctor Who news. Shaun Lyon, the editor, has very, very good contacts and has for years had a very strong editorial policy of only posting news once it's been shown to have at least reasonable provenance.
I'll believe it when I see it. After all, it took well over twenty years for Spider-Man to make it to the theatres after the original announcements
It's in production. The executive producers are Russell T Davies (author of Queer As Folk, Second Coming and Bob & Rose), Mal Young (BBC Head of Continuing Drama Serials) and Julie Gardner (BBC Wales Head of Drama). Line Producer is Phil Collinson, Head of Casting is Andy Pryor, Script Editors are Elwen Rowlands and Helen Raynor. The thriteen, 45-minute episodes are currently being written by Davies, Paul Cornell, Steve Moffat (Coupling author), Mark Gatiss (League Of Gentlemen) and Rob Shearman.
Filming at BBC Wales is booked to start in July this year. The Doctor has been cast - Christopher Eccleston (Second Coming, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later), and story titles have been announced for some of the 1st season (episode 1 - 'Rose', episode 2 'The End Of The World', episodes 9 and 10 'Aliens Of London' (the Steve Moffat episodes) and episodes 12-13 - 'The Parting Of The Ways'.)
While rumours that the budget will be a milion pounds per episode have been dismissed, Mal Young has confirmed that the new series has one of the highest budgets of any BBC Drama ever.
Oh, and Russell Davies has said that it will *definitely* be a continuation of the original series, and is, emphatically, not a reboot.
This is definitely going to happen. It's already happening. The BBC are plugging it as the flagship of their Saturday night schedules next year.
Jeff Minter is LlamaSoft. He wrote a number of very classic games on a variety of 8-bit platforms, several of which are available as freeware from Llamasoft here, including Gridrunner, Attack Of The Mutant Camels, Headbangers Heaven, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Hover Bovver, Sheep In Space, Mama Llama, Batalyx, the Atari ST version of Defender II, Llamatron, Defender II for the Jaguar and , not a game as such, the Trip-A-Tron.
Jeff Minter was an 8-bit god, and as you might guess from the names and his long-term handle 'Yak' has a bit of a thing about ungulates.
how about the 'more structured for no adequate reason' edition?:
10 gosub 60
20 gosub 60
30 print "happy birthday dear BASIC"
40 gosub 60
50 end
60 print "happy birthday to you"
70 return
(tested in MS Office XP VBA, will not work in vb.net as gosub has now gonesub and will not return)
Correction, by 1987 I was in Uni. This must have been summer 1985 at the very latest.
Arrant nonsense. I was 17 years old. A small four person company half a mile from my home was a market leader in producing exam study guides, and I needed a job in the school holiday. Amstrad PC-compatible computers with a massive 512 kB of memory and not one but TWO (yes, two, and they were double-density I might add) 5 1/2 inch floppy drives had just become available on the high street when a 'real computer' would have cost UKP5000 at the bare minimum. WP 4.1 on PC-DOS was outrageously cheap compared to the alternative. Most of the money went on the single IBM daisywheel printer and the custom font wheels.
There was no Linux, there was no Internet to download freeware or research the alternatives (there was mail-order, yes), there weren't consumer grade laser printers; without getting too 'four yorkshiremen', Hercules made the job a whole lot easier, and the right tools for the job, then as now, were those tools which were available and affordable and usable by people whose speciality was mathematics education, not computers.
Word and WP would be the wrong tools for a big publisher in 2004 obviously, but for a small educational specialist in 1987, WP was a good choice, as proven by the success of the products we were typesetting.
My first ever 'computer job' was typesetting maths textbooks in WordPerfect 4. Pretty much all the work was done in the Reveal Codes panel, and it took a long time for me to accept that, in the face of its glaring and unforgivable lack of this feature, MS Word might actually have some features that were quite handy. Working in the Reveal Codes panel in WP was pretty much a case of programming the printer (at a fairly high level). The precision and control was wonderful. As you say, after that, HTML in 1994 looked like a somewhat feature-poor clone.
I can't imagine that MS put a lot of effort into their C++ compiler it they want everyone to migrate to their own language (C#, that is), but then again I'm not an MS fanboy, so what do I know?As a self-confessed 'microsoft fanboy', I'd imagine that they put at least as much, if not more effort into the C++ compiler as they do into the C# or VB.net compilers, since C++ is what they use to write those compilers, their Longhorn OS, the overwhelming majority of the .net framework class libraries and the headline application and server products like Office and SQL Server.
If it was a UK law it would have a meaningful name (such as "The Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984" or "The Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Act 1996")which gave at least some indication as to what it covered, rather than an obscure semi-random string of characters whose relevance to anything is unclear.
or: As well as using the internet to rally and energise the American Public into voting for them, they are going to use it to further alienate and annoy everyone outside the US without a vote in the US elections with pop-ups? Are they that out of touch that they believe these pop-ups are actually going to be limited to US voters only?
I didn't see: what happens if they don't comply, or comply 1/2 and it's found that it doesn't cut it?
if they 'comply 1/2' then they haven't complied, and if they don't comply they earn an additional penalty of 3 billion Euros per year until they DO comply.
So where do I buy an old beaten up laptop bag to go with my shiny new laptop? Thanks for the stellar advice.
That one's easy at least. Get one from a charity shop and take it out with you. It's a handy piece of luggage on the way out, and camouflage on the way back.
Setting the laptop up should help pass the hours in the sky, too.
It's all hypothetical now, of course, but bear in mind that back in 1970, when they cast Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, he was a stalwart of light entertainment, working almost entirely in comedy in film, TV and radio. Jon lasted 5 years in the role and can easily give Tom Baker a serious run in the popularity stakes. In contrast, the first Doctor, William Hartnell was pretty much typecast as a thug or a tough Army sergeant before getting the role.
There's slightly more to it than that the BBC trademarked the blue box as part of the preparations for the 1996 TV Movie, the Metropolitan Police appealed to get the Trademark back so they could charge the BBC for using the Box, and eventually (October 2002) the judgement fell in favour of the BBC. details
Coverage in the US is pretty patchy these days, but the This Week guide at the excellent Outpost Gallifrey site is a good place to look for TV listings. For any other background information about the show, the Outpost's Guides section is as good as you'll find anywhere.
Unless you buy the "Brain Of Morbius" version of Time Lord lifecycles, in which case there were eight other Doctors prior to William Hartnell (this was flatly contradicted in other scripts later in the series, but was very much the intention of the production team at the time) whose faces appear on the screen of the mind-wrestling machine.
SO looking forward to this new series. We have another tall, intense, slightly alien-looking insanely charismatic actor in the role, the best Drama writer in the UK, a budget reported in today's press as around a million pounds per episode, scripts by not only Russell T Davis but also Paul Cornell, Mark Gatiss, Steve Moffat and Rob Shearman, each of whom has a fine professional track record, and the show still has the charisma to get immediate coverage across the UK national media.
Indeed, it's very unlikely that Clemens would have intended to say that you should never, ever get involved in Open-sourced software. After all, Clemens is the maintainer of DasBlog, a BSD-licensed weblogging engine for ASP.net, forked from Chris Anderson (M'oft employee)'s earlier BSD'ed BlogX software.
Since newTelligence AG's site is currently slashdotted, here's the Google Cache edition of the dasBlog homepage. And here's the GotDotNet collaborative workspace hosting the Source Code for dasBlog.
Give Clemens' letter a bit of thought - it's not the ravings of an anti-FOSS demagogue after all, but the view of a successful software businessman who also maintains some very useful Open-sourced software.
Great that these folks ripped out the innards of the scam device.
At the risk of an accusation of flamebait, as far as I can see from the scant information in TFA, it looks like these people removed evidence from a crime scene. Self-sufficient hacker-culture vigilante bravado aside, wouldn't it have been better to inform the bank and / or the police rather than destroying the evidence which might have eventually led to a prosecution?
As things stand, removing the Reader from the crime scene may in itself have been a crime.
Bear in mind, this is Woody's Office Watch, not some pseudo-random bunch of reviewers. I've been subscribed to WOW for 6 years now, Woody Leonhard's a M'oft 'MVP', has written a slew of Office and Windows related books with M'oft endorsement, and the history of WOW raising serious problems in Office apps and seeing M'oft sit on its hands and do nothing is all too long. The Office 97 Excel Recalculation Bug went something like nine months and a whole Service Pack before M'oft issued and withdrew a flawed patch for it. And yet on other occasions the issues have been fixed very quickly. Over the years a pattern has formed, and the reaction to the XL2k3 RAND() bug fits the pattern for a bug that M'oft simply don't give a damn about.
This is more analogous to Ralph Nader and automotive safety, way back when.
According to this Sirius Cybernetics brochure which has dropped through a freak wormhole onto my desk, it's called "Genuine People Personalities".
Sounds Ghastly.
I (hic), for one, welcome the return of That Ol' Janx Spirit (hic).
Nothing in the radio show is from the book, as the radio show came first. Obviously this required verbal exposition in the radio show to actually tell the story.
Not passage from "the book", passages from "The Book" (as in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, starring Peter Jones as The Book")