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Don't Panic, It's Towel Day! 164

Posted by CmdrTaco from the he's-just-this-guy-ya-know dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Today, as every May 25th, geeks all over the world celebrate Towel Day and carry a towel in honor of Douglas Adams. The popular author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy died in 2001 at the age of 49, but his work lives on. According to the book, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Hence its symbolic role in this celebration. This year, for the first time as far as we know, Towel Day is being supported by the British publisher of Adams' books, who organizes a photo competition."

Comment Re:Reminds me of a Facebook group (Score 1) 144

by scigirl543 (#21154061) Attached to: Facebook Goes To 64 Bit User IDs
That may be part of why they did it. The group, while being nowhere near its goal, is now useless other than as a random discussion forum. I'll stay in it for that, but it no longer really has a purpose. Not that anybody ever expected to actually cause an integer overflow to begin with, though it was fun to watch the group get reported as Anti-Facebook terrorism repeatedly by people who believed more in the achievability of the group's goals than a vast majority of the members did.

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