Rambles Blog at Star Chamber

This is a great article on rapid scaling, as described in Web Techniques. From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight. hotornot.com probably scaled up more and faster than any company to date. Fun read.

Incredible but true. An entire game of chess written to fit within 5k of memory. Try it… it’s a pretty creditable player, at least for me. It’s part of the 5k challenge.

More OpenCola news. Tech Review sez: Have Some Code and a Smile. Remember you heard it here first.

Check out the Word from the Czar for the true story behind the illicit liaison between Megnut and the famous Front Page bot cursor.

Here’s an entertaining interview with the real life George Jung (i.e. the guy behind Johnny Depp’s character in Blow).

R.W.B. Lewis has just written a highly praised book about Dante called Dante : A Penguin Life. Does anybody else find this funny? It is intriguing, I admit: just how long was Dante a penguin, anyway? Did he do all his writing in were-penguin form? Did anybody get any pictures? Because I don’t think his parents are going to believe this.

What’s up with the weird symbol at the top of the page? Symbols.com has a nice description of it. See also symbol 53:26. There’s no lapis like a lapis philosophorum, I always say. Read more about the philosopher’s stone here, or if you prefer, here.

Something interesting is going on here. Cory Doctorow (see craphound.com) and Mark Frauenfelder collaborate on one of my favorite blogs, BoingBoing. Cory Doctorow is working for OpenCola. Here is an article about OpenCola in the Industry Standard my Mark Frauenfelder. OpenCola is one worth watching.

Blogger is cool. I’ve set up another blog as my To Do list. It works well as a universal access list of things to see and do.

Wired magazine’s latest issue has an entertaining article about Dave Winer and his Scripting News. It has some good discussion of how annoying geeks really can change the world.