David Brent dancing in the Wernham Hogg office while Vogons stamp paperwork and read a Sun newspaper headline about Gorbachev taking power, with Tim Canterbury looking at the camera

Link Salad – 11 March: Vogons, Newspapers, and the Day Gorbachev Took Over

Today’s link salad starts with the birthday of Douglas Adams, born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge. Adams created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where the bureaucratic alien race known as the Vogons spend their time stamping forms, filing paperwork and reciting terrible poetry. From science fiction bureaucracy we move to real-world media power. […]

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