Where everybody knows your name

Random quote of the day:


"The power of being an author, the joy of it for me, is that if one wasn't an author one would be a really boring person filled with peculiar bits of trivia, the sort you meet in a bar saying 'Did you know that...?' For an author, all of this 'white knowledge,' the kipple in the back of your head, no longer is old keys and broken batteries, abandoned buttons, forgotten paper clips; it's actually useful!"

—Neil Gaiman, interview, Locus, February 2005



( Illustrated version. )

Magical thinking

I can't remember where on my flist or feedlist I got this from (and, sadly, it was only yesterday), but it's a fascinating article and I wanted to share. I'm all about the sharing, I am. So thanks to whoever originally shared this.

Rest in peace, Arthur C. Clarke

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke