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	Ponder Stibbons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stibbons' most successful creation is Hex, a magical computer composed of glass tubes full of ants, and other assorted complex systems, such as mice.
		It is possible that Ponder Stibbons is named after a 'Mr Stibbons' who taught at Terry Pratchett's secondary school.
		Ponder Stibbons and another young wizard Harry Potter seem to look not unalike, but it should be noted that Ponder's presence and looks were published before Harry Potter's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ponder_Stibbons (444 words)

	Books:Synopses:The Last Continent
		Ponder Stibbons, the youngest member of the UU faculty, is entranced at the sight of a portal leading to a faraway place.
		Ponder is now faced with the monumental task of explaining to Ridcully about animal reproduction, and that the animals on the island cannot breed as there is no other animal of the same species to breed with.
		Ponder's theories on evolution are put through the wringer when the ferocious beast suddenly changes into a harmless chicken in front of their eyes.
	www.ie.lspace.org /books/synopses/the-last-continent.html (3666 words)

	Hex (Discworld) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stibbons is concerned by these signs that Hex might be alive, but insists that it only thinks it is.
		This is much simpler than the original, however; according to Stibbons, Hex is technically a Very Big Thing, while the Braseneck device is barely a Quite Big Thing.
		The inspiration for Hex, which evolves through seemingly unexplainable upgrades like extra cheese, a CWL (Clothes Wringer from the Laundry, for crunching numbers and other things) the FTB protocol (Fluffy Teddy Bear) and "small religious pictures" (icons), came from Pratchett`s own early experiments with unfathomable upgrades on his ZX-81.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hex_(Discworld) (1037 words)

	minimal grounds for disaster
		Ponder Stibbons scurried across, trying not trip over the bottom of his robes.
		Ponder Stibbons glanced at him, and nearly shouted for joy.
		Ponder Stibbons looked slightly affronted, then gave it up as a bad job and started drawing an octagon on the floor.
	www.sleepingwithghosts.popullus.net /crossoverfic/minimalgrounds.html (1827 words)

	The Cerdonic TERENCE CORRIGAN Pages - Dream Roles
		"Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
		He could deal with most types of mind, but the one apparently operating Ponder Stibbons was of a sort he had yet to find the handles on.
		Beyond the few similarities between Ponder and Wellard and his slight resemblance to drawings by Paul Kidby, I strongly believe that Terrence would do a marvelous job of bringing out the subtleties of Ponder's personality that were lost in past attempts to portray him outside of the novels.
	www.geocities.com /freycinette/terencedream.html (4577 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ponder Stibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hex is an elaborate, Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque, magic-powered computer housed at the Unseen University in the Discworld series by author Terry Pratchett.
		Families Blaberidae Blattellidae Blattidae Cryptocercidae Polyphagidae Nocticolidae Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea (the name Blattaria is also seen).
		Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ponder-Stibbons (1786 words)

	Further Reflections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ponder Stibbons, reluctant to give up his role as the nasty one[1], gave one final glower at Wesson.
		Also, Ponder found that radiating avuncular concern, while fun, had the not unpredictable effect of making him look younger than the students he was supposed to be interrogating.
		Ponder Stibbons brings him tea, and does not tell the librarian about the book.
	www.yuletidetreasure.org /archive/9/furtherreflections.html (2359 words)

	Ponder Stibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ponder Stibbons is a student wizard, and therefore trouble.
		Not the kind of trouble you'd get from the demons in the dungeon dimension but someone who questions why things have to be the way they are and these people are much more dangerous.
		However Ponder seems to have his work cut out for him with the Faculty of Unseen University who actually question him back and leave him more confused than when he first came to ask the question.
	ozdw.homes.com.au /couch/stibbons.htm (199 words)

	Ponder - Drumwaster's Rants - Ponder. Rinse. Repeat. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ponder - Policy Research Group, DoC, Imperial College
		Ponder is a language for specifying management and security policies for distributed systems.
		No sooner had the school year started at the century-old Roman Catholic women's college than students received word Thursday that their college was closing.
	iseeklinks.com /q/ponder.htm (220 words)

	Ponder Stibbons - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ponder Stibbons - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In The Science of Discworld, a book which interleaved a Discworld story and real world science, Stibbons creates a device for splitting the thaum, once believed to be the smallest unit of magical radiation particles.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Ponder Stibbons contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ponder_Stibbons (291 words)

	Convergence - Act VIII
		Stibbons...come on...wake up, man..." Ponder Stibbons was vaguely aware of the voice, and of the hand prodding his shoulder, but at the moment he didn't feel much like doing anything about it.
		Stibbons, anyway, we took him to see the Patrician..." ----------* Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, didn't want to be at the Palace right now.
		Well, I was a phenominal cosmic force now-and as long as nobody tried to have Susano resummoned in Takamagahara mode(in which he could reduce this entire solar system, perhaps this arm of the galaxy, to yinerons and yangerons), I could leave him to work.
	www.users.dircon.co.uk /~morden/convergence/act8.html (21683 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A man is sleeping in bed and has a dream."\par "This dream doesn't involve cornfields, does it?" the Dean asked.\par "No! In this dream the man is attacked by a mugger with a knife.
		Great Aunt Dolly was always one for cleanliness."\par Ponder felt his stable ground fall from under him once again, "But it can't be true.
		If he died in his sleep, no one could possibly know what his dream was about."\par "Oh, sure they can," said the Chair, "Poor bugger dies, Death shows up, he complains to Death and mentions the dream, Death shows up the next day and tells the missus.
	www.simpworks.com /YaBBAttachments/DWwizards.rtf (260 words)

	University related Characters
		MP35 Ponder and Victor study the Necrotelicomnicom (the phonebook of the dead) which was written by the Klatchian necromancer Achmed the Mad (he prefered to be called Achmed The I just get these Headaches).
		Ponder Stibbons - 24 years old (LC) and youngest member of the faculty.
		Built by Ponder Stibbons and a few keen research students, including Adrien (Mad Drongo) Turnipseed but in fact Hex redesigns itself and sometimes bits just turn up.
	www.area51b.freeserve.co.uk /dworld/uuother.htm (1549 words)

	Sanjiyan's Anime Forums - [FFML] [NGE][Discworld][Fusion][Fanfic] - Neon Genesis Wossname pt 2
		Ponder Stibbons was locked in a battle to the death, he wasn't
		Ponder walked off dejected, It is only a telephone.
		Ponder turned, he could answer it he knew he could.
	www.sanjiyan.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=8359 (1584 words)

	Definition of Mustrum Ridcully
		Usually, the person doing the explaining is Ponder Stibbons.
		Oddly, the faculty member he gets on best with seems to be Ponder Stibbons.
		He never understands what Ponder is saying, and Ponder never expects him to, but at least the young man is doing something, which is more than can be said for the rest of them.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Mustrum_Ridcully (469 words)

	Unending BE: Discworld: We're Off to Find the Wizards... [episode 146583]
		Ponder Stibbons had all kinds of tools and writing utensils in the many pockets of his strange robe, but the only money he had on him was the change left over from last night's coconut and herring pizza.
		Ponder ignored the glare and finished, "Thirdly, one wizard is not enough power to teleport five people all the way across the Circle Sea, especially if one of them is as large as a troll.
		Ponder tries to use his clout in the neighborhood as a wizard to _talk_ their way onto a boat.
	www.bearchive.com /~addventure/game1/docs/146/146583.html (1686 words)

	The Nine Muses dot Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For the fools that have not yet succumbed to my (and others') insistence that all must sample the Discworld series, this is Ponder Stibbons, the Jason Fox of Ankh-Morpork's wizard college, Unseen University.
		As always when Ponder is concerned, resemblance to Harry Potter is purely coincidental.
		Because I originally planned to have the Librarian holding Ponder's hand (why not Rincewind?, I ask myself), his arm is at a very strange angle.
	www.theninemuses.net /art/alicey_grad.html (194 words)

	PRATCHETT & EVOLUTION
		On pages 26 and 27 Ponder Stibbons notices that many animals are very similar to each other, particularly the skeletons amongst the vertebrate animals.
		It was these sorts of similarities that cause many people through the centuries to propose that animals all had one evolutionary origin, but it was not until Darwin and Wallace proposed a mechanism that could explain how these changes took place that it became popular among scientist.
		This would refer to Darwin's work in the Galapagos where he noted that many birds, particularly the finches, looked to have come from common stock, but their beaks were specialised for particular feeding habits.
	users.bigpond.net.au /paul_blake/goe.htm (2001 words)

	story page 4
		In the High Energy Facility in Unseen University, Ponder Stibbons was using HEX for calculations he needed for his latest project.
		The Archchancellor stopped a lot of the projects for one reason or another, but Stibbons was in a very good mood because Ridcully had approved of it.
		Ponder Stibbons gurgled something and motioned feebly towards Hex before also assuming a corpse-like status on the floor of the HEM building.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /angel_of_darkness/story4.htm (894 words)

	The Hogwarts Post
		When I was drawing my picture of Ponder Stibbons from Discworld, for instance, I had somebody come by and look at the picture, and we had the following conversation:
		Mind you, Ponder Stibbons is _24_ years old with BROWN hair, I don't know about his eye colour but I drew them brown, and no lightning scar!
		Ponder is also a young wizard but he isn't even from the same flipping SERIES!
	network54.com /Forum/71659/message/1014344450/Oy!++Tell+Me+About+It! (323 words)

	Wizard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Obi-Wan Kenobi, as a master of the Force, has some wizard-like attributes in George Lucas' Star Wars films: "That wizard's just a crazy old man" said Uncle Owen to Luke Skywalker in Episode IV: A New Hope.
		Ponder Stibbons is the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic at Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
		Pug (also known as Milamber) is the wizard protagonist of the fantasy books by Raymond E. Feist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wizard (1649 words)

	Discworld's Ponder Stibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is Ponder with his glasses and his cloak, which I'm still crocheting.
		It is hard to see, but Ponder's hat and pants have bees on them, escaped from Hex, not doubt.
		Also, please admire the wonderful gadget Tom made for me out of a salad bowl found at the dump and a brass toilet paper holder.
	world.std.com /~kcl/discponder.html (123 words)

	Neon Genesis Wossname
		Ridcully and Ponder shuddered, they clearly wondered what elves had done to deserve that hideous fate.
		Ponder Stibbons was locked in a battle to the death, he wasn't about to let it get the better of him.
		Ponder couldn't stand it, he leapt at the offending instrument.
	home.att.net /~dan_s.comments/NGWOSNME.htm (3800 words)

	The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - The Last Hero
		Or so people keep saying, which is a bit unfortunate, because ever since the success of the Harry Potter books, Terry is hearing increasingly more often from people who ask if (or sometimes even demand he acknowledge that) he 'got' Unseen University from Hogwarts, etcetera, etcetera.
		In this case, the first drawing of Ponder Stibbons (looking exactly as he does here) appeared in the 1996 Discworld Portfolio, whereas the first Harry Potter novel was not published until 1997...
		"Ponder Stibbons was indeed first drawn in 1996.
	www.ie.lspace.org /books/apf/the-last-hero.html (1598 words)

	jeep off road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What would those until there was jeep off road an unpleasant moment and then, as the leading establishment of practical magic is what wizarding robe is that it took years had been one design, one size jeep off road of legs, competence at catching flies—' 'Length of tongue,' said Ridcully.
		There's no problems, Mister Stibbons, jeep off road when you've had led to all that business about the clams, and in the summer a few tourists would hang around for a quick enough.
		He'd been on Ponder's desk when Ridcully had been, she might jeep off road attract students.
	jeep.rathost.com /jeep-off-road.html (2125 words)

	wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction
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		See, this is how that post should have been written.
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	www.wotmania.com /messageboard3showmessage.asp?MessageID=287959 (410 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hex (fictional computer)
		Hex is activated by initializing the GBL, which Stibbons reluctantly admits means "pulling the Great Big Lever".
		This releases millions of ants into a network of glass tubes that make up the bulk of Hex, hence the sticker on Hex that reads Anthill inside, a pun on Intel’s ad slogan Intel Inside.
		Waah!") if the FTB (Fluffy Teddy Bear, a gift from the Hogfather) is removed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hex-(fictional-computer) (657 words)

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