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This is just too cool. From the privacy of my own computer, I can watch the news on French TV. If you’ve got a good connection to the net, this is one fast streaming link, extremely high quality. My French isn’t even very good, but I find myself spellbound watching the latest news from Paris. This is one of those “in the future, we’ll be able to…” moments.

More R.U. Sirius nostalgia for the Elder Days of the early 1990s. Whatever Happened to MONDO 2000’s Cyber Revolution.

A free course on bioinformatics from DoubleTwist.com. Amazing what you can find these days. Somebody is going to some real trouble to make it easy for me to learn cool stuff for free. You can also read all of Benjamin Lewin’s GENES textbook at genes.net.

What happens when you hook up the old ELIZA faux-psychologist program with an AOL chat room? Find out here: AOLiza.

I’ve got another piece posted on the Star Chamber front door:

Travel Sucks.

Check it out: Lisa Whipple, a.k.a. our very own Damiana, got a piece published on McSweeney’s: A Brief Autobiography of Camille Paglia, as Told through Introductory Appositive Phrases In Her Online Column. Go girl!

Nice page with lots of information about The Gospel Of Thomas, one of the ancient Coptic texts found at Nag Hammadi. His disciples said to Him, “When will the Kingdom come?” Jesus said, “It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying ‘Here it is’ or ‘There it is.’ Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.”

Good stuff from Scott McCloud of “Understanding Comics” fame: I Can’t Stop Thinking! – #1 June 2000

This just in: Carnegie Mellon brain scientists find human brain applies law of least effort when solving problems. If you’ve been reading the Star Chamber, you knew it all along. This is exactly the topic of speculation in Yadda-Yadda-Yadda. Remember: you saw it all here first.

Speaking of Baron Samedi (see previous post), it may interest long time readers of the Star Chamber that Mr. Saturday is based on the voodoo character Baron Samedi. He’s a mischief maker who deals in the world between the dead and the living. I love the fact that his job in the voodoo rituals is to disrupt the ritual itself.