“ The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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expect? I'm from
another fucking
planet.
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Answered this question soon after arriving in this universe, and apparently not for the first time, by reference to this ‘blog’.
When the shuttle docked with the ISS on July 15, the combined crews set a new record for space-vehicle occupancy. (via Wired Science)
≠ Obviously, I need to write grabbier headlines. This is the recent hit list. My own posts to Tumblr start with ‘PLQ’ or show Tumblr in the URL (and got 2, 4, and 5 so-called ‘clicks’). Click to enlarge.
Also, people are interested in all sorts of genres and media, but the nonspecificity of both represented by ‘culture vortex’ (the headline for probably the coolest link of the bunch), almost nobody is interested in clicking on. So much is overlooked in the rush to locate what we’ve already seen before…
Amazing culture vortex from Metaphysical Neuroma ≈ Fathoms! Click through to see the full-size, uncropped page. (There’s more.)
“Best idea I ever had…importing those wild hogs and letting them run loose on my game preserve! Yes, sir!” (via The Horrors Of It All)
