Christian Heilmann

It is Towel Day! Carry your geek with pride.

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Today is towel day in memory of the great Douglas Adams. I am doing my bit by carrying my towel:

Towel Day 2010 by you.

The Google offices in London proudly sport Douglas Adams’ bathtub full of towels in their lobby today:

Douglas Adams' bath tub with towels in the Google office London by you.

In case you don’t know who Douglas Adams is or what the Towel is about hand back your geek card on the way out and get yourself a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy right now.

If you still wonder about the awesome that is Douglas Adams, I point you to his last ever public talk on endangered animals (and to him explaining the 42 reference on the newsgroup fan group himself:

Hoopy!

Chris

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