I Know Where My Towel Is
Topic: Television and Media
In a burst of inspiration caused by the cinematic entertainment I enjoyed yesterday, I have become a field researcher for The Guide. I am now researcher 1531122. My first entry is entitled "How to Hide A Body and Avoid Embarassment Until the Authorities Arrive, and What to Do When They Get There."

H2G2 is a project hosted by BBCi which mirrors the fictional Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In the fictional Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, field researchers would wander the galaxy with their guides, write an entry about something they felt a hitchhiker needed to know, and submit it. It would be edited a bit, and then added to The Guide as a revision. But because it was a book in constant communication via "sub-etha wave" with the publisher's computers and therefore updated instantly when the entry in the computers was, you never needed to buy a new guide.

In H2G2, anyone with a computer and the ability to register as a field researcher can become one. As a result, you often get entries like this one, or maybe this, or in extreme cases, such as this. But it is equally possible to find an informative entry.
There is an edited portion, the appropriately named "Edited Guide," that they refer to as "the heart of h2g2." It is where you'll find useful information. It's likely to be more useful than Ask Jeeves, which is just a search engine anyway and less effective than Google. With h2g2, you actually have information from someone, even if it's not written by a real expert, or not completely factual. It may be apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. But it'll be fun.

Besides. If you really want to research something, go to the library.