Rambles Blog at Star Chamber

Use Alexa’s Wayback Machine to view old Star Chamber pages (going as far back as December 1996). These guys have a lot of chutzpah: they want to archive the entire web, and keep on doing forever. And amazingly enough, they can actually turn the clock back on a lot of material.

A friend turned me onto Salon’s Everything you wanted to know about “Memento” article. I was still pretty confused by the time the movie ended, but entertained nevertheless. This article is the skeleton key that lets you in on the secrets.

Read all about how the world changed from the point of view of the people that index the world at Google. The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine and Google’s zeitgeist page.

I like blogdex, but it troubles me because whenever I find something I like there and blog it, I know I’m just piling on the old internet bandwagon. Self-fulfilling memes. Oh well. I absolve myself.

I’ve just been working on the MATLAB Programming Contest at work. The challenge this time around was to write a program that could play Mastermind. We did some fun visualization of how the contest progressed.

Tons of well-formatted free stock market data while you can get it: EdgarScan. Who knows how much longer this service will remain free.

The New Yorker is finally starting to put some real content online. They’ve been holding out for a long time, but they’ve finally given in. This article about the Saudi royal family is pretty terrifying.

This Is a Religious War

Good article in the NY Times: The Despair Beneath the Arab World’s Growing Rage.

Okay, I know that everybody on the net is already talking about this, but the Bert ‘n Osama picture is just too damn funny not to link to. I found this on the nikke site in Sweden.