Rambles at starchamber.com

Guy Ottewell has left his digs in South Carolina and has moved back to England. Universal Workshop Home Page

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I like this well-written Seven wonders of the web list in the Guardian. Blogger makes their list; it makes my list too.

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The Coffee Czar has turned me on to Joel on Software. Joel Spolsky, the eponymous author of the site, also runs Fog Creek Software, publishers of City Desk.

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I enjoy reading New Scientist magazine, but my local newsstand has stopped carrying it. So I have to remember to look at the web site more often.

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Is it true that all things are contained in a long enough string of randomness? Use NERSC: Pi-Search Results to search for strings in the first billion or so digits of pi. It’s pretty easy to find a short string, like “gulley” (search string found at binary index = 203616973). So naturally I [...]

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We are sending a coded message to potential intergalactic neighbors. If you received such a message, how would you decode it? See http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991757 for an introduction to the problem. I’ve taken a stab, using MATLAB, at decoding the alien message. Take a peek. If you want to know exactly what the message codes for, look [...]

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Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics is back online after a long (legally imposed) hiatus. Read Weisstein’s author’s note about his descent to and return from legal-limbo hell.

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Some Double Dactyls that have been hiding on my site for a while.

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A recent Google search for Star Chamber turned up this tidbit on the Leasowe Castle web site in Wirral, England.

One of the most atmospheric rooms in the Castle is the beautiful Star Chamber with the starred ceiling taken from the Palace of Westminster, where the most serious crimes were tried. The last gaze by [...]

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Good bioinformatics article: Signals Magazine: Time to Morph.

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