Topic: Douglas Adams

How the Best Storytellers Win

How to master the craft of storytelling.READ»

The Hitchhikers Guide to the New Economy

Don't panic. You're about to go on a ride through the new economy in the company of Douglas Adams, the ultimate hitchhiker, as he translates his fanatic flair for intergalactic fun and games into what he hopes will become the next big multimedia company.READ»

Commentology #4

PREVIEWThe problem with writing is when you feel pressured to write and pressure to write is a form of stage fright, but free people flow in their writing, there is nothing in the universe that gets between them and their thoughts, ...READ»

Lions and Language and Geeks [Oh My]

Language is in a state of constant flux, evolving at the edges, occasionally ruptured by dramatic and rapid changes in culture. It contains fossils and fractures that hint at what has been or will be important. The word ...READ»

Microsoft Shutters Encarta as Douglas Adam's Encyclopedia Model Wins

Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become ...READ»

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Science Fiction Books

Science fiction is one of the 20th century's most characteristic and dominant literary forms. Despite serious criticism and misunderstanding, it has millions of readers worldwide and has established itself at the heart of popular ...READ»

Zero-002

ZPURPOSE - ZPAST - FCBIO Session Time: 41 Minutes Wake Up Call: A great designer makes his design comprehensible Improve management of all transition points Focus on being grounded when abstraction ...READ»

The Seeing/Believing Gap

What you see may be only a fraction of what's there. To learn more, look beyond what you expect.READ»

Forget Touch, Poke Out Your Tongue to Control Your iPod

Who'd have thought gesture-based controls would expand to this: A new invention by Kazuhiro Taniguchi, at Osaka University, lets you control your iPod by pulling different facial expressions. The gizmo works by having highly ...READ»

Gropable Gadgets: Future Touchpad Controls Will Be Wrap-Around

The Nano Touch device currently being demoed by Microsoft research adds a wonderful twist to modern touchscreen tech: the back surface of the device is touch-sensitive too. Though this sounds clumsy at first, it's actually a rather ...READ»

Samsung Leaks the First U.S. WiMax Device

Samsung's really betting on the future recently--first there's news of its next-gen HDTVs, and now its leaked details on what's due to be the first dedicated WiMax gadget to hit the U.S. market. It's excitingly dubbed the SWD-M100 ...READ»

Twenty Tweets #1

0 more result since you started searching. Refresh to see them. My first Twitter report - while this is unconvential but I live in a land where they sing "I did it My Way" The social media masters will be displeased at my ...READ»

Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»