Rambles at starchamber.com

Who says Latin is dead? Rident stolida verba latina! The Net is just the place to revive a dead language. Esperanto speakers of the world, unite! Your time may yet come, too.

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This is in the wish-I’d-thought-of-it category: Am I HOT or NOT?. So simple and so compelling. These feedback-to-the-masses sites satisfy a deep human hunger. I just wish I could see which revolution they were leading to.

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Blog much? Blogging, short for web logging, is a Great Big Trend these days, and since Paracelsus doesn’t like missing bandwagons, he’s got one of his own. What is web logging? It’s really just a convenient combination of “dear diary” and bookmarking, sort of a web surfer’s journal. What makes it a Great Big Trend [...]

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Funny stuff on zeldman.com: The Advertising Graveyard: Real Ads That Almost Ran. One of the better ones, from the Hoboken BrewHaus: “One of our authentic double bock beers, and you’ll feel like you’re in Germany. A few more, and you’ll feel like invading Poland.”

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crispy doodlebugs and frypaper fritters were the special for the day, but we weren’t paying particular attention on account of the great musty water buffalo mounted prominently on the wall behind the vending area. the unrelieved funk of the water in the slop-sink nearly undid the man at the front of the line. “why me?” [...]

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You’ve seen enough photographic webcams. Take a more prosaic look at the world with the help of the Star Chamber Prosecam.

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An interesting experiment in searching the web Pandia (from Norway).

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