Hitchhikers Guide to make a Fowl stop?

Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.

Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago.

Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer, 43, is best known for the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels.

More at: BBC News

Fairwell to the Great Minnesota Get Together

With summer winding down and the days getting shorter I thought I'd jot something about the traditional 'end of summer' trip for us to the Great Minnesota Get Together. It's a big crush of humanity, all wandering around eating things we don't need to eat, buying things we don't need to buy and drinking things to survive the end of summer heat, and mostly just people watching.

With the fair's status as a swan song for summer, I thought this picture I caught as we headed home pretty much said the rest.

Live Update - Right Now.

Wow, Windows LiveMail apparently updated while I was reading a message, causing this notice to appear. What are the odds that they'd push an update in the middle of the afternoon? Isn't that something that should be done off-peak?

BTW, no - the update did not change the "We only spell check the first 2,000 characters" issue.

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ETA (November, 2008). Hotmail has done another update. This time the 2,000 character spell check limit has been removed. Good on you, HotMail, LiveMail, Microsoft, or whatever you're calling yourself these days! Nice job.