Rob and Lisa are faithfully keeping us updated about their EuroTrip 2000, most recently from Amsterdam. Coincidentally, the Coffee Czar wrote just this week about bicycles and Amsterdam. Say… how come I’ve never seen Rob and the Coffee Czar in the same room at the same time? Hmmm…
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McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s web site, edited by Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I recommend the book and the site. Currently at McSweeney’s: New Riddles for Five-Ounce Dixie Cups.
Check out the new
Check out the new Atomz.com powered search engine on the left side of this screen. I’m happy to give them a plug, because their service is good, fast, and free. I’m extremely impressed with what the Blogger revolution has wrought. You don’t need heavy server-side action on your site if you can make clever use of all the free services out there. These are developments I never would have anticipated…
Snakes and Ladders is
Snakes and Ladders is a collection of intriguing essays by Erik Davis. He wrote an entertaining book called Techgnosis about the parallels between ancient traditions of magic and our current information-centric culture.
405 the movie
405 is a movie made by two guys working nights and weekends for three months. Go and watch it. You’ll be impressed.
Cliff Stoll of Cuckoo’s
Cliff Stoll of Cuckoo’s Egg fame is back peddling a line of Acme Klein Bottles.
On the Road with Wally: Travel Tips from India
Only 31 years ago this week, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were standing on the moon, representing our species on the moon for the first time in history. If you are lucky, some day you will get a chance to read about the moonshot in the best book about it yet written, Apollo: Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox. In fact, it’s just one of the several books you can get at the newly-opened Paracelsus Bookshop (catchy name, eh?).
Actually, I overstate my case a little. The Apollo book is out of print now, but it is a great book, and one day it will be back in print and you will be glad I told you about it. Plus, there really is a Paracelsus Bookshop, powered by Amazon, ready to recommend only the highest quality paper-and-ink products for your high quality paper-and-ink needs.
It’s been a busy week here at Star Chamber World Headquarters, because we’re also launching the new Paracelsus Rambles weblog, powered by the friendly folks at Blogger.com. The weblog scene is very big and very entertaining, and if you haven’t heard about it anywhere else yet, then you heard about it here first.
Finally, and as if that weren’t enough, our correspondent from the field, Bendy Wally, has just returned from India, and we have secured for the Star Chamber the exclusive coverage of his trip. Don’t look for it anywhere else on the web, because you just won’t find it. And besides you only have to scroll down the page a little bit to find it here.
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OnePage is just one
OnePage is just one of a growing trend: cut and paste your own web page from other web pages. The result may look like a ransom note, but at least it’s your ransom note.
This Principles of Graphic
This Principles of Graphic Design site by Mundi Design Studios was a bronze winner in the recent ID magazine Interactive Media Design Review. Clean, well-executed, and free.
Here are some nifty
are some nifty applets by an Italian gentleman named Fabio Ciucci. These things are usually incredibly annoying, but his are well enough done to be compelling, particularly the ones that pick apart images pixel by pixel, like the water applet.
Two useful free services: QuickTopic and Spyonit. QuickTopic is the new name for the extremely useful service formerly called TakeItOffline. Within seconds, you can spawn a free discussion group. Spyonit watches websites, among other things, so that you don’t have to visit a site often in order to find out that it’s changed. Somebody else watches and then tells you.
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