H2G2 - H2G2 If you are a h2g2 Researcher wanting to become a Wikipedian, please take a look at our guide for h2g2 Researchers. h2g2 is an online community engaged in the construction of a guide to life, the universe, and everything. Much of it is encyclopedic, but the site also covers more esoteric subjects, such as plastic bag bras, teaching your cat to fetch, or burying oneself in sand. The site was founded in April 1999 by the author Douglas Adams and some of his friends as the Earth edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Adams, of course, was famous for the Radio Series/TV Series/Book Series/Play of the same name). h2g2 serves as a handy abbreviation for that rather lengthy title, with the advantage that.
Vigenère cipher - to occur when the same letters are encrypted using the same key letters. The key letters are repeated at multiples of the key length, so the distances found in step #1 are most often multiples of the key length. Once the keyword length is known, the clever observation of Babbage and Kasiski comes into play. If the keyword is N letters long, then every Nth letter must be enciphered using the same letter of the keytext. Grouping every Nth letter together, the analyst has N "messages", each encrypted using a one-alphabet substitution, and each piece can then be solved using frequency analysis. Using the solved message, the analyst can quickly determine what the keyword was. Or, in the process of solving the pieces, the analyst might use guesses about the keyword.
History of Internet encyclopedia projects - the most important and successful digitization of an encyclopedia was the Bartleby Project's online adaptation of the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2000, which was put online at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ in early 2000 and is updated periodically. Another related branch of activity is the creation of new, free contents on a volunteer basis. In 1991, the participants of the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams [1] started a project to produce a real version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams. It became known as Project Galactic Guide. Although it originally aimed to contain only real, factual articles, policy was changed to allow and encourage semi-real and unreal articles as well. Project Galactic Guide contains over 1700 articles, but no new articles have been added since.
Fruitmince - ingredients together in a saucepan and cook on low heat until the fruit is plump and the apples are translucent. Store in the fridge for up to a week, or use immediately. If desired, a small amount of brandy or rum can be added to the mixture before or after cooking. A matured fruitmince recipe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A663626.
Eksi Sozluk - hypertext dictionary that follows almost the same concept as Everything2 or H2G2. The site is in Turkish; the name "Eksi Sozluk" translates to "Sour Dictionary". When the site was founded on February 15, 1999, the developers had no idea that similar projects were around. Therefore the site design and the functionality may seem much different from that of other sites. Conceptually, however, the site is very similar to H2G2, since it has been inspired a lot by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. AsAs of July 2003, there were 3,100,000 entries (actual plus deleted ones) and 4,000 active writers (called susers) in the web site. The creator of the site is known as SSG. There are 5 moderators who scrutinize and, if need be, modify/delete the entries of these.
Everything2 - from using the Chatterbox or message system -- those users whose behavior violates the unwritten standards of politeness and decorum. This is done through a bot called EDB (short for "Everything Death Borg"), which announces when it has "swallowed" a user. Most silencings last for five minutes, though persistent trolls may be silenced for a longer period -- sometimes permanently. The message system lets users send private messages to other users. The messages are stored in the user's mailbox to be read when they next log in. The main use for the message system is giving constructive criticism to the author of a writeup; however, it can be and is used like any medium of private communication. History and Society The predecessor of E2 was a similar database called Everything (later.
Anachronism and time travel - or even by another species. Maybe time travel is itself a dangerous technology? It may not be possible to travel back in time past the creation of some specific artifact. The Tippler Method is an example of a method with this kind of limitation. In this case we'd expect to see no time travellers now, but at soon as the relevant artifact is constructed we'd expect visitors from the future to be a fact of life. Example Anachronisms If the pyramids were not built by aliens, must they have been built with technology from a future civiliation? They're certainly impressive monuments in both scale and design, but the Egyptians were skilled masons with an almost infinite supply of labour. What about other feats of ancient engineering? From the solar calendar that.
BBCi - and radio stations there. As might be expected, the website has a decidedly British orientation, although the news and sport sections each give the reader a choice between UK and international versions. In February 2001, BBCi incorporated Douglas Adams' previously independent H2G2 project into its group of web sites. Unusually for a high traffic website, BBCi has extensive technical information available about its operation. BBCi's interactive television services are broadcast on TV, on digital cable, digital satellite and digital terrestrial television. It includes an always available text and video based services, and enhanced television programmes, which offer extra information, video or quizzes..
British Broadcasting Corporation - 1991, the BBC launched the World Service Television (WSTV) news and information channel, which was renamed BBC World in January 1995. Unlike its World Service radio counterpart, WSTV was commercially funded, and carried advertising, which meant that it could not be broadcast in the UK. The Corporation's UK news service, called News 24, was not launched until November 1997. In August 1998, the BBC's domestic TV channels became available on Sky Digital's satellite service. An unintended consequence of this was that people in the rest of Europe could now watch BBC1 and 2, using viewing cards from the UK, as the signal was encrypted for rights reasons. This even applied within the UK: people in England could not watch BBC channels from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, or vice versa. On.
Brownsea Island - a Site of Special Scientific Interest. On July 29, 1907 Baden Powell and 22 boys held a Scout camp on the island, and the subsequent publishing of Scouting for Boys started the scouting movement. In the Second World War lights were placed on the island at night to divert the attention of bombers away from the nearby conurbation of Poole and Bournemouth, army camps on the Purbecks and the important naval base on the Isle of Portland. There are many bomb craters on the island which are havens for rare wildlife. External Links National Trust: Brownsea Island (with pictures). H2G2: Brownsea Island..
The Digital Village - science-fiction/comedy writer Douglas Adams was one of the founding members. TDV produced the computer game Starship Titanic, and started H2G2, a community site dedicated to producing what is referred to as the Earth edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After Adams's sudden death on May 11, 2001, TDV ceased to exist as a registered company..
Collaborative writing - many people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. Collaborative writing projects include: H2G2 Everything2 The International Writing Exchange The Linux documentation project Wikipedia and many other wikis Some collaborative writing projects are also open content..
Radio comedy - You, The League Of Gentlemen, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, (based on Radio 4's The News Quiz), Steptoe and Son, Dead Ringers and most recently Absolute Power. The science fiction comedy "Red Dwarf" was developed from ideas in a radio show called "Son Of Cliché". Another science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy went from radio to television but also to books, website and various forms including the h2g2 project (which is both like and unlike Wikipedia). Examples of American radio comedy can be heard on streaming internet radio stations. Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" can be heard on public radio stations in the United States and a different version of the shows can be heard on BBC7 & RTE.
Llanfair PG - as opposed to 19 in English). A reasonable attempt at a pronunciation would be Clan vire pulth gwinn gith gor gerrick win drob uth clan tay see lee oh go go gogch. (The "gch" in the final syllable is the "glottal h" sound, similar to the sound used in the Yiddish "l'chaim". Saying gok glottally produces more or less the same effect.) Two lls can be pronounced either as 'cl' or 'l', or more precisely as an 'l', while passing air around the tongue (try blowing while saying "l"). The name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is also used as a password in the movie version of Barbarella. See also: List of interesting or unusual place names External Links Llanfair PG - article at H2G2.
London Stone - Cannon Street in the City of London. There is also a pub nearby called "The London Stone", which is run by the Eerie Pub Company. See also: London Wall External Links BBC/H2G2's Fascinating History of the London Stone More information and pictures of the stone at the Modern Antiquarian London Stone - the pub. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
