Rambles Blog at Star Chamber

Every time I go back to Matt Welch’s warblog, I find more good stuff. Read his recent essay about how blog coverage of this war is beating the big media coverage. Fun reading.

Nice spoken-word commentary on life in Afghanistan from photojournalist James Hill at The New York Times

Play Pong on the side of a German building with Blinkenlights Interactive.

The writings of the Star Chamber are still available at Peanut Press, thank you very much. It may interest you to know that people who bought our little screed also purchased The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. I’m not sure why, but apparently the reverse is not true.

It is instructive at times like this to look back on a record of the go-go days of the Boom. Here are some of the scribblings of erstwhile Netscape ubergeek and resident cranky journal-keeper, Jamie Zawinski. Fun amateur anthropology.

Love this stuff: Geometry in Action

Desperately Seeking Bioinformaticians / The New Tech Gurus Are In Demand, But Dimly Understood

conferences.oreilly.com — O’Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. Clearly O’Reilly sees bioinformatics as a nice area to expand into. At least two books in print and a special dedicated URL: http://bio.oreilly.com/.

Incredibly Strange Databases / Unusual information collections reveal our digital subconscious

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