The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels...
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker 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; more ... (see also the bbc )
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#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then echo "Usage: twithash searchterm (nb. # added automatically)"
else wget -q -O - http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23$1|awk '/title/ { gsub("[<</]*title>","") ;text=$0} /<name>/{ gsub ("[<</]*name>",""); split($0,N);print N[1]":"substr(text,4)}'
fi
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armagny: #qanda Penny Wong continues to impress with self control and absence of sneer or carp.
armagny: #qanda Unethical spin spend is where you take money given for policy advisers & give to journos, or other flakes
jackwork:khas
BLOWFLYwine: Clean coal is vaporware... but if Penny doesn't sell it, the government would be concerned about losing future tax revenue #qanda
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