Listing Bookmarks

List of Bookmarks

  1. Rec 2

    Summary

    -1- When a distinguished [but elderly] scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    -2- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
    -3- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    ( -- any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology;)
    ( -- any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced;)
    ( -- any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration;)
    ( -- any sufficiently advanced anything is indistinguishable from utter nonsense [especially if it is sufficiently advanced nonsense to begin with.])

    31 May 2012

  2. Rec 3

    Summary

    In which a wish is granted, a fish is thwarted, and all is well that ends well.

    6 Nov 2011

  3. Public Bookmark 2

    Summary

    In every good story, dear reader, there is a beginning, a middle and an end. I'm sure you know the story of Bartholomew Cubbins and his five hundred hats, but what you may not know is that the story you've been told is merely the middle part of a much bigger story. I can tell you the beginning -- of Bartholomew Cubbins living far off in the fields on the edge of the cranberry bog in the Kingdom of Didd and of Grand Duke Wilfred living in the Palace with the King.

    10 Jan 2011

  4. Rec 8

    Summary

    The continued exploits of the Once-ler and company.

    15 Mar 2010

    Notes

    I want to make this into a book for my kids. So awesome.