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Recording and image credits

Sources, transformations, and the people behind the sound shelf.

The public recordings are derived from Common Fart by Mike Koenig, published by SoundBible under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

  • Short bark: shortened excerpt with a short fade.
  • Rolling call: the source recording, re-encoded for consistent playback.
  • Room echo: an excerpt with an added synthetic room tail.

These descriptive titles are ours. The edits do not imply endorsement by the original creator. The archive’s witness tape is an original, deterministic sound illustration.

New editorial photographs were generated with OpenAI imagegen. The original photographic surfaces and fictional artifacts are created for this project; readable document text and diagrams are rendered from authored source data.

The sites contain small original allusions to Douglas Adams’s books. They are an unofficial fan project and are not affiliated with his estate or publishers.

For the literary side of the project, visit the Douglas Adams fan-mystery introduction.