Rambles at starchamber.com

Weblog to watch: genehack. Interesting to see what life is like on the inside of the bioinformatics world.

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I hadn’t realized you can find the entire A.E. Waite tarot deck online at the sacred-texts.com site.

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Consider an exotic vacation to a hotel entirely made of ice.

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The iota center claims to be about building a community of people interested in “the art of light and movement” or “visual music.” The concept is intriguing, but the site isn’t very impressive. The most useful part is the links page. Thanks to Golan Levin for the pointer.

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WHUMP dot COM: More Like This Web Log

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Article from the Smithsonian, “Newton’s Vice,” about Sir Isaac Newton’s long passion for alchemy. It’s eye-opening to see how this paragon of scientific thought devoted years of his life to alchemical transmutation.

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Nice piece about the blogger revolution by Ken Layne in the Online Journalism Review.

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Take a look at the latest by Paracelsus, a hallucinatory meditation on the nature of the hereafter.

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I’ve always been fascinated by chaotic aperiodic tiling along the lines of the famous Penrose tiles. So I was delighted to find a site that actually sells Chaos Tiles. The creator of Chaos Tiles, Ed Pegg Jr., runs the mathpuzzle.com where I spent a long time puzzling and wandering. His links page by itself is [...]

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Golan Levin’s homemade tidbits page links to numerous beautifully executed Java applet/artworks, along the same lines as work by Scott Snibbe and Martin Wattenberg. Take a look at the e.e. cummings poem that spools out one word at a time. There’s so much expressive space in this domain, I hope we see a whole raft [...]

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