Rambles at starchamber.com

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

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

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Starting a vacation is for me an abrupt and generally unpleasant experience. Once, on a vacation to Cozumel with my sweetheart, I spent the first afternoon wearing a hot jacket as we strolled together on the sunny beach, because it seemed unutterably lame to jump into something snazzy and tropical. Of course, it was visibly [...]

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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!

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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 [...]

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

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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.

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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 [...]

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California artist Josh Agle signs his name Shag and makes way-out artwork that recalls the hipster graphic style of 50s and 60s commercial art. Dig this image of voodoo bad guy Baron Samedi.

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This is what convergence is all about: what if Kozmo.com could deliver marijuana to your door? Kozmo can’t, but
iToke can. It’s real, it’s legal, but it’s based in Amsterdam. It seems like a fairly obvious step to deliver Ben and Jerry’s ice cream at the same time. Read about it at CNET

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