Towel Day ~ May 25

In celebration of the life of beloved and beguiling author Douglas Adams and the many hours of enjoyable and charmed reading he left us, froods the galaxy over carry a towel in his honor on May 25. Why a towel, you ask? Why, for this very reason:
   “A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] 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 vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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.”  (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
   So, you see, it's really quite important, and you don't want to be left out. Find out what's going on around you on May 25: http://towelday.org/
   And P.S., Don't panic.