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Originally posted by dandelion:
...hand in a glove...

Doesn't this belong in the Michael Jackson thread?

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

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Originally posted by dandelion:
...hand in a glove...

Doesn't this belong in the Michael Jackson thread?

Ray said it first and possibly better!

Sort of relevant to this thread:

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com...bit-sponsored-canon/

Hey, phil. You don't need glasses to see this character. I take it he guards the augmented reality dinosaur exhibit at night.

http://www.ixtlan.ru/picture.php?image=32.jpg

A horsey!

Also known as a naysayer. (Neigh sayer. Geddit?)

Slightly off-topic, but no apologies for this. This is Arthur C.Clarke on his 90th birthday, about three months before he died:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE

And here's a transcript of the same:

http://www.tveap.org/index.php...rt_transcript_02.php

Clarke was about three-and-a-half years olders than Bradbury, so much of what he has to say about the marvels of technology chimes with what Bradbury has to say. Clarke was generally less hostile to technology, however.

...and he ended with Kipling, as you noticed, I'm sure.

Made my day. Thanks phil.

Bradbury, interviewed in 1964 (Show, 4.11; reprinted in Conversations With Ray Bradbury):

"...the question of morality rises again and again with each machine that we create. As each invention populates the world with itself, new laws must go on the books to control its direction. While machines are amoral, sometimes the very manner of their construction, and the power locked into their frame inspires man to lunacy, idiocy or evil."

This is a KIND of technology...just a rather simple one: fire balloons!

http://www.fiestaskylanterns.com/

F451... "seashells" everywhere today!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

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Originally posted by philnic:
This is a KIND of technology...just a rather simple one: fire balloons!

http://www.fiestaskylanterns.com/

I've been wanting to make a fire balloon for YEARS, but have never done so. (Even have some Victorian-era instructions around here somewhere, which detail how to make one from scratch.) However, I suppose I'm a bit worried that it would come down and end up setting something on fire, the countryside here being nothing but trees and fields for miles around.

(Hmmm, I remember the characters in one of Edith Nesbit's books were worried that they had done this very thing when the sent off their own balloon... let me think... Oh, it was in Oswald Bastable and Others, the chapter titled "The Arsenicators.")

PS---Do you think £24.99 is a good deal for a box of ten? Seems a bit pricey...

The president's proposed new American Health Plan:

Think overdosed Mrs. Montag: Enter the white rubber-suited stomach pumpers, stick hoses down Mildred's throat, change her hemoglobin, smoke a few cigarettes, comb back their oily hair, and then leave in a rush for their next job!

"Who are those guys!"

(Famous quote: Guy Montag and the Sundance Kid)

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Originally posted by theoctobercountry:
...PS---Do you think £24.99 is a good deal for a box of ten? Seems a bit pricey...

How much would it cost to make your own? Paper bag = £0 (get one free with shopping). Tealight candle = £0.20. Bill for rebuilding someone else's house when it burns down = £250,000.

(I assume these "10 for £24.99" ones are guaranteed not to burn down property, you see.)