Quick, name the top bands of the 80s. Chances are your list will differ greatly from mine. Obviously, I think my list is better than yours and y… A messy heap of Moroccan pastries sit in a shattered glass display case. Twisted nails, strips of clothing and mobile phone parts have been collected and placed in rows of jars. Tourist maps and a charred Douglas Adams' novel lie in clear plastic evidence bags, while the walls and floors bear the blood stains and nail-sized scars of a bomb blast that took the lives of 16 people days earlier. As part of our new Untangling the web series, I want your help to examine issues around money and the web Money: the cornerstone of our Western capitalist society, and the source of so many of our social ills. As Douglas Adams once wrote: > This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. But what would happen if we lived in a system that didn't distinguish between the rich man and the pauper? Take one open network, a culture of freedom and the ability to copy and distribute at will, and surely we can predict a powerful effect our perceptions of financial worth? Yet human beings insist on enforcing existing social structures, even on such systems. Virtual financial models typically regress to traditional economic patterns, based on rarity. Even in this context where scarcity ... #### BBC offloads h2g2, but don't panic! Members of the h2g2 community consortium are in the market for someone to buy the site or donate some cash to the cause, after the BBC confirmed earlier this week that it was ending its 10-year hosting of Douglas Adams' Real Guide to the Galaxy.… An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has announced their intention to dispose of the H2G2 website, originally founded by Douglas Adams. This comes as part of an initiative by the BBC to cut their online spending by 25%. 'BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of "products." All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly ... H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online. However, H2G2 is unusual. It is a pre-existing community that the BBC brought into its fold, not a community that the BBC set up from scratch. So rather than closing it, we've decided to explore another option. This process has been referred to elsewhere as the "disposal" of H2G2. I'll admit this is not a great choice of words, but what is means is that we'll be looking for proposals from others to take on the running of H2G2.' One option under discussion is a community buyout." Read more of this story at Slashdot. How much attention were you paying to literary developments this year? Anwer these questions and find out if you're a chump or a champion
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