A realization had over dinner, looking up "cream cheese" and "fromage frais" on our new iPhones: the iPhone is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. At least while attached to Wikipedia.
That's got to be work an app -- something with "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters on the front. I'm not sure this counts. You're welcome, App Store programmers.
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This is one from the vault. Though not our vault. It was posted here in the original. But we offer a full reprint below the fold.
Entitled: "The iPhone: A User Guide" and courtesy of Darren Cahr (via McSweeney's).
Includes:
My brother found this, but he is too afraid of the internet to post something in the comments on my previous post about acceleration and the iphone. It turns out that this too awesome
I think that Randall Munroe made precisely that point about the Kindle, which works a little better if you are broke or don't have a fixed (billing) address.
:) http://img530.yfrog.com/i/w7j.jpg/
I liken it more to Penny's book in Inspector Gadget, but that may be because I was exposed to IG before HHGTTG.
Yup - it "contains much that is apocryphal and inaccurate - but where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate".
How is it possible that no one has programmed this yet?!!