Hooray, it's Towel Day...oh, you don't know? May 25th celebrates Douglas
Adams, author of the
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Galaxy][Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy]]. But why a towel, you may ask? From the "official"
[[http://www.towelday.kojv.net/][Towel Day]] site:

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  To quote from [[http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/hhgg.html][The
  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]. A towel, it says, is about the
  most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have.
  Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for
  warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie
  on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V,
  inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the
  stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to
  sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in
  hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes
  or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a
  mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it
  can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your
  towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself
  off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a
  towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag
  (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel
  with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession
  of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass,
  map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc.,
  etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any
  of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might
  accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man
  who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it,
  struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his
  towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
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So bring your towel with you today. It is in your best interests.

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