Electronic book-An oxymoron?

There is every reason to want to see the printed word enhanced by something more in tune with current information technology, but until the geeky entrepreneurs of MIT, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and the rest can come up with something that looks like a book, feels like a book and behaves like a book, those who handle such items every day, and marvel over the magical integration of print, paper and binding, will probably continue to read and enjoy books much as Caxton and Gutenberg did.

Robert McCrum
Sunday January 15, 2006
The Observer

Science or Dogma

Saint Thomas Aquinas:
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."

Usurpation

"When one does not know how to convince, one oppresses; in all power
relations among governors and governed, as ability declines, usurpation
increases." Madame De Stael

One point for name

“Your request meets most of the petition requirements. It is in English, provides your name and address and describes the substance of the rule you request.… The regulations also require, however, that a petition set forth facts establishing a claim that a rule is necessary.”
Stephen Lemberg, Assistant General Counsel for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission responded to the EWG on June 27, 2003:

Belief

"If I didn't believe it with my own mind, I never would have seen it.
Bard College Graffiti, 1971