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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:28:24 +0930

Re: Very OT.

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:17:48AM +0930, David Drury wrote:
> > 
> > Mark Newton wrote:
> > 
> > >> Have seen sod all mention of this ... Douglas Adams died.  :-(
> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
> > 
> > > Ah yes; it's been all over the net since the weekend.
> > 
> > Praise be the 'net, for all the coverage it got in traditional media
> > (yet Big Brother ranked frontpage in last week's Sunday Mail ...
> > hmmm).
> > 
> > Apparently the ABC news covered it, though, according to colleagues.
> > Must remember to pay them my 10 cents ...
> 
> I saw the report on 10, ABC, and SBS. All used the same BBC report, but 10
> dubed their own commentary over it. UserFriendly had a tribute on sunday
> to it too.

It was also on NewsRadio 972 kHz in the middle of the night,
and the BBC World service, and slashdot.org and theregister.co.uk.

There was even a brief memoriam here:
http://www.douglasadams.com/

I think he will be remembered as a great educator.
The fact that NewsRadio has about 10 hours of astronomy
programming per week must be due to his influence.
Most people would have learned about black holes from his stories,
I think, and various concepts of philosophy (cleverly disguised
as humour).

On the negative side, he used a Mac.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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