Rambles at starchamber.com

This is a good example of the kind of reference-of-references that you can only find on the web. Very meta. Very cool. An online museum of online museums. [from BoingBoing]

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Salman Rushdie tells it like it is. This is from the Feb. 4th New York Times. America and Anti-Americans: “Those elements in the Arab and Muslim world who blame America for their own feelings of political impotence are feeling more impotent than ever…. What America is accused of — closed- mindedness, stereotyping, ignorance — is [...]

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The Coffee Czar is back in business, and his weblog is humming with activity again. Check it out.

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Fun with robots: IEEE Spectrum is featuring an article about modular robots. The Rambles news staff spotted this one a year ago, but apparently they’ve invested some real money in a robot that can pull itself together like a slime mold out of lots of tiny other robots and move one of four completely different [...]

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Any fan of Terry Gross and Fresh Air needs to drop whatever they’re doing and read about her interview with KISS leadman Gene Simmons. What a pathetic wanker. Maybe he’s playing some kind of Andy Kaufman head game for art’s sake, but I seriously doubt it. Best bet is that he’s just a pathetic wanker.

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Now I’m sending you this message through the courtesy of Blogger Pro ™, a steal at $35 a year. It’s finally got a feature that I’ve been waiting a long time for… using the “draft” option, you don’t have to publish everything that you’ve posted if you don’t want to. You can even post into [...]

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Steve Grand wants to be a “latter-day Baron Frankenstein” according to this New York Times article on artificial life: Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life. He comes across in the article as a genuine latter-day eccentric Englishman, the clever kind, not the unbalanced kind. He’s written a book about his adventures creating artificial [...]

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Google is running a programming contest. Not much like the programming contest we ran with MATLAB… it looks like they’re willing to pay big bucks to people who can help them do a better job with their search algorithms.

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Learn how to do astronomy from the privacy and comfort of your personal computer. Virtual Astronomy: Now Anyone Can Make a Discovery

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Use Marketleap to see how popular (in terms of links) your site is. Link Popularity - Marketleap Visibility Index - Measure your link popularity

From Marketleap, I tracked down AllTheWeb.com, which let me construct this search that shows all the non-Star Chamber documents that link to this site. AllTheWeb.com: Web pages results for `link.all:www.starchamber.com’

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