Been reading a bit, is nice to get to read something other than fibre channel :) 1.) The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison If you like Douglas Adams this should work for you too. It's quite old books (first one is from '61) but the language does not feel archaic …

Linksies! Planets: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm Imagine a year being only 10 days! I'd be sooo old! Roughly one thousand years old. Maybe I would qualify as a jedi? LHC: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html Nice comment about the above …