Used to be that 25 May was Towel Day - as in Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (H2G2) and that a towel is a very useful thing for any intergalactic traveller to have. 'Used to be' because I didn't see one towel-carrying person (besides me in reflections in store windows) in the Sydney CBD! Hopefully there was more of a show of H2G2 support elsewhere.
But at least something came of it - in looking up the H2G2 (I get confused with the acronym) I came across the h2g2 project. According to part of the Wikipedia entry : h2g2 was founded in April 1999 as the Earth edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the author of the series, Douglas Adams, and his friends and colleagues at The Digital Village. "h2g2" serves as a handy abbreviation for that rather lengthy title, with the advantage that most people are able to spell it.
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