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While there is a whole Intranet of information and diagrams above this level - which seems to be somewhere just below Super Galactic Traveler Class - this is the heart and soul of the alternate reality Starship Titanic. In here, amongst tens of thousands of entries, are myriad plot threads, hundreds of characters and enough material to fill several books, probably. Starlight Lines Accounting Toolbox
While the Employee Forum will obviously be the immediate draw at this site - as detailed above - you should not avoid a little investigation of the other areas. The Accounting Toolbox is equipped with the delightful and entertaining Online Parametric Currency and Market-Fluctuation Paradigm Calculator. With the simple input of a handful of fields you are providing with a thoroughly useless fifteen digit number. Thanks go to Yoz for this miraculous piece of programming.
The online resting place of the Great Creator, the man whom without which this whole troubled and bizarre existence that is the Starship Titanic would no longer exist. That he has passed beyond our world and is probably, even now, propping up the bar at Milliways in no way puts a brake on the steady, rolling advance of his creations. ZoopTV
Once the home of Sark Piffin, Tunkvent Denkvunt and Letnyl K. (the Primordial Zoop) - all Oldies in the great hierarchy of Starship Titanic. ZoopTV offered an interactive tour through some notable star systems, all from the comfort of your own posture-correcting, vibro-massaging, no-mattresses-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this arm chair. Both Kitikaprinak and Tanj'reen were open to your close scruntiny, assuming you could get anywhere near them without crashing or inciting some haddock-based incident. Alas, the site no longer exists at the original location, though perhaps it survives in some form with an internet archive. Starship Titanic Ordered Alphabetically
One has to wonder what Yoz finds to fill time now that all this vaguely insane programming has been laid to rest - the Punctuation-In-Place-Alphabetiser and the Blerontin Calendar. I don't know. While this entry may well be an effort in programming, it probably works doubly well as a method of Search Engine spamming disguised as an effort in programming. How very devious! Enjoy all 29 pages of this compact, unintelligible masterpiece - then read the novel and tell me which one you prefer!
The interconnectedness of all things is a theoretical notion, but it doesn't half help in the process of holistic detective work if you believe in it a little more intently than that. It's the interconnectedness of all things that means you can scout for tacky gifts in a Bahamas gift shop when you've been hired to find someone's lost cat. DIRK attempted to catalogue the interconnectedness of all things and allowed visitors to suggest more. As of the last time I looked they had 13,000+ objects interconnected in 30,000+ ways... and it made for both entertaining reading and participation. However, it's gone now. Now you can have a read of the creators blog instead and various doodads he's come up with. All links to DIRK, however, are deadends.
These are simply my final thoughts about the great man mountain written on the day I heard he'd died. It happened within throwing distance of my birthday, so getting older and mortality were lingering on my mind. I posted this up at the online Guide as well... and added an addendum about a month later, I think. I have since moved on to a different blogging system and switched my addressing around a bit... but the page remains.
The brainchild of Douglas Adams, and his various backers, to create a terrestrial version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, it has been growing and expanding at a considerable rate since September 1999. H2G2 contains thousands of entries, some edited - i.e. official - and many more not. It's almost like an online personal journal of individuals experiences of the world - ranging from what a taxi is to how to carve a pumpkin, emergency medical procedures to how to survive being swallowed by a whale. Excellent dip-in reading.
A very similar project to H2G2 that has been running for more than double the length of time. The entries are far more varied, handling matters real, semi-real and unreal... like Feline Aerodynamics and Walking Through Mountains. There are more than 2000 entries indexed by category, date, author, region, etc. - but, alas, nothing about the Starship Titanic. Looks like the project stopped a few years back - 2005, by the looks of things - and the Wiki got locked down due to spammers. Why I oughta bust their chops! Dirk Gently's I-Ching Calculator
Included because it's silly and a wonderful attempt at translating the warped thoughts of Douglas Adams into something you can poke. 'It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of the hexagram.' 'The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to "4"... but anything above "4" it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow' More To Follow... |