Douglas Adams Google Doodle (in honor of his birthday March 11th).
It’s mostly harmless.
I do love the interactive ones.
If you wait long enough, Marvin comes out of the elevator.
The tape moves if you hover over the right part of it.
The Guide displays several (four? five?) entries.
Anyone find anything else?
Marvin comes out of the elevator if you hover over the doors.
Clicking on the Guide should just take you to Wikipedia.
Here’s to Douglas Adams: He was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was.
What’s the Guide entry that starts with the Earth and ends with a guy making a plant die by talking to it? I’m sure it’s easy, but I can’t remember.
The doodle makes me a little sad. Partly because Adams is no longer with us, but partly because I took so long to come to terms with being a geek.
I remember in high school, a guy I was in the chess club with recommended Hitchhiker’s. And all I could think was “nerd”.
Keep in mind that I read comic books, wrote fantasy/sf, read Star Trek novels, played video games, and was in the freakin’ chess club. :smack:
It took me until the second year of college to start recognizing my own geekiness. I don’t truly count myself as a nerd, since I’m not good at math and science. But I am a HUGE geek.
I’m glad I realized what I was, just wish I could have realized it sooner. 
It’s just about Vogons.
Right. In the brief stop I made I got:
[ul]
[li]Vogons [/li][li]The Babelfish[/li][li]Deep Thought - 42[/li][li]“Mostly harmless”[/li][li]Men study mice, dolphins study men, mice study them all[/li][li]What’s so unpleasand about being drunk (ask a glass of water)[/li][li]God sneezes out the universe[/li][li]Jump to the other side of the galaxy with the Infinite Improbability Drive (with transformation into Penguin and Ball of Yarn)[/li][li]Flying is falling w/o hitting the ground[/li][li]Have your towel with you[/li][/ul]
I’m so sorry, but this made me guffaw! This right here made the story!
No, it’s someone drinking a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster. He gets hit by a slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick.
John Barrowman’s birthday is today as well.
If I had already known Adams’ wife was dead too, I’d forgotten until now (I find it hard to believe that slipped by me, but I honestly don’t remember knowing about it before). I felt very sad to realise Polly Jane Rocket was orphaned at 17, and that neither of her parents even made their 60th birthday.
I got all the objects except the thing with the needle that moves up and down. What’s that?
Probability factor gauge?
*Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. *
Can someone post the perma link please?
I haven’t tried every button but it looks like each button brings up a different scene.
The tape moves no matter what you do or don’t do. And I’m not sure what buttons you’re referring to; I haven’t found any buttons per se that do anything (even though the one on the joystick-thing really looks like it ought to do something).
Oh, and the cup of something almost but not entirely unlike tea ripples if you click it.
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To be more precise, The Great Green Arkleseizure Theory of Viltvodle VI states that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of The Great Green Arkleseizure, as opposed to creation by a God.
Fear the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.