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  1. BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Douglas Adams

    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Douglas Adams, creator of the anarchic world conjured up by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He’ll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, as a child, he found it difficult to communicate with the adult world, and didn’t speak until he was four years old. But as his confidence grew, he set his sights on being a nuclear physicist - an ambition later replaced by a burning desire to be John Cleese in Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In fact, he has become a hugely-successful author, a passionate amateur naturalist and a rock star manque.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/1d016bb1#p0093qxj

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  2. A Tribute To Douglas Adams » The Pod Delusion - A Podcast about Interesting Things

    A special edition of The Pod Delusion celebrating the life and work of acclaimed author Douglas Adams, in association with Save The Rhino and their annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture (which is held jointly with the Environmental Investigation Agency, which Adams also supported).

    This special episode is presented by Jon Treadway and features contributions from many people who knew or were influenced by Douglas Adams, including:

    Stephen Mangan, star of the Dirk Gently TV adaption
Mark Carwardine, co-writer of Last Chance To See
Stephen Pinker, author and previous Memorial Lecture presenter
Dirk Maggs, producer of the Hitchhikers radio series
Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in both the TV and radio series
Dave Stirling, founder of Save The Rhino
James Thrift, Adams’ half brother
Ed Victor, Adams’ literary agent
Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician and previous Memorial Lecture presenter

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  3. The Ihnatko Almanac #8: To Which, Zaphod Replied

    Andy and Dan discuss author Douglas Adams, including his books Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Last Chance to See, along with other works like the computer game Starship Titanic and more.

    http://5by5.tv/ia/8

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  4. Douglas Adams’ speech on Artificial God

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  5. Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything - UCSD-TV - University of California Television

    University of California Television provides informational, educational, and enrichment television programming to the public and draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific, and creative talents of the University of California.

    http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=5779&subject=hum

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  6. Episode 42

    “ Do you know where your towel is? Are you a hoopy frood? Have you just consumed your fifth Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster? We have. And you’d better catch up. In honor of our 42nd podcast and the recent Towel Day, The Incomparable celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams. We feature our special guest, Yoz Grahame, who worked for Adams’ The Digital Village, the producers of Web sites such as h2g2.com (a precursor to Wikipedia of sorts).”

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  7. SXSW: So Long, and Thanks for All the Babelfish

    Presentation by Tim Holden at SXSW 2011.

    Will 2011 be the year of the Universal Translator? As this science fiction dream teeters over the horizon, what can and should we do now to prepare for a time when the translation robot, not the search engine, becomes the single most important audience for your site? Will SEO give way to TEO? Does language need its own subtext markup? And when on Earth is Microsoft Word going to replace its ‘Bold’ button with a ‘Strong’ one? Lay aside your Google Goggles and iLingual apps (just for 60 minutes or so), and enjoy a session that’s packed full of accessible translation theory, insight into the working processes of web copywriters, and more than the occasional riff on Douglas Adams.

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  8. Mondo Diablo Episode 292: Mugu’s Guide to the Galaxy

    Find the entire book, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy read by a 419 Scammer, at http://www.419eater.com/html/booked2.htm . I kept it short, so your ears won’t get too tired.

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  9. Is there an Artificial God?

    In honour of Douglas’ memory, Biota.org presents his speech at Digital Biota 2, held at Magdelene College Cambridge, in September 1998.

    Full transcript available at http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/

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  10. The Eighth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture - Ep. 24 of The Pod Delusion

    Save 6Music (1:25) by Martyn Norris Biofuels (7:37) by Dave Cole Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture (16:34) by Jon Treadway (ft Marcus du Sautoy and Bob Novella) Larry Sinclair (25:02) by Salim Fadhley

    http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2010/03/05/episode-24-5th-march-2010/

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