I wish I could take credit for this, or even that it was a recent thing to find. But nevertheless, [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.dur.general/msg/12221a98c5d2de10|Paper is calm]].
…one thing about paper which is as important as all this wizardary is paper is calm. It doesn’t contain moving images to distract the attention, it doesn’t spontaneously resize to cover your entire desk, or disappear into a little button which you have to press to recover it. It doesn’t spontaneously turn into another piece of paper. It doesn’t make a ta-da sound whenever I look at it, it’s reasonably permanent, I can’t with a flick of my wrist remove its contents or make it into large flaching yellow cyrillic. It does what you tell it to, and when you tell it to do nothing, it does nothing.
March 6th, 2006 at 1:31 am
You forgot the link to the source. Here is one reference, Paper is calm (text version), though I’m not sure this is the original source.
March 6th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Thanks! That link was supposed to go to the source. Not sure how I managed to mess it up. Anyway, fixed now.