Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Comment on Dec 20th, 2001
My oldest brother, bless his heart, celebrates his birthday today, making it fully four days closer to Christmas than my own birthday. This means that, while I can bemoan my fate at having a birthday so close to Christmas, I still get to chuckle at him, because his is positively hiding in the shadow of [...]
Posted in Comment on Nov 6th, 2000
Galileo gives posterity the finger, and other revelations from an Italian science museum.
Posted in Comment on Aug 28th, 2000
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 [...]
Posted in Comment on Jan 3rd, 2000
Welcome to the Twenty-First Century Star Chamber, guaranteed to bring you a wholly satisfying, up-to-date, and quintessentially twenty-first century web-browsing experience. You’ll find no unsightly 1900s-vintage bugginess here: our Y2K Crisis Management Team has performed beautifully and has conducted the site safely across the millennial divide.
This week we present for your sophisticated twenty-first century reading [...]
Posted in Comment on Nov 29th, 1999
We hope this compendium of infrequently posed queries, painstakingly gathered across many years of operation, will clear up some of the mystery surrounding the Star Chamber.
Don’t see your favorite rarely asked question here? Send a note to the RAQ Master at raq@starchamber.com and we’ll add it to the list.
Q: Are you Star Chamber guys really [...]
Posted in Comment on Aug 23rd, 1999
We here at the Star Chamber wish you all a pleasant winding down of summer. Sad though it is to admit it, the end is nigh. All you autumn-lovers can gear up and get giddy, but I think I’ll take a nap from September to next April.
Four years after appropriating the name of an obscure [...]
by Wendy Gulley
The line at the concession stand for the local cinema megaplex was moving excruciatingly slowly. I was vainly hoping to buy some goodies before the previews started in my tiny booth they call a theater. As I inched closer, I discerned why it was taking my fellow moviegoers so long to [...]
Posted in Comment on May 27th, 1998
Ah mayonnaise. The Viscous Muse.
Posted in Comment on Apr 27th, 1998
Paracelsus went on vacation last week. Did you? Do you wish you did? Have you ever returned from a vacation that needs another vacation just to recover from the excesses of the first? Like the ad campaign says: “Life is short. Play hard.” Then again, why? Sigh.
Posted in Comment on Sep 2nd, 1997
September so soon.
With any luck, the approach of May will be just as swift. Still, one has doubts. On the other hand, what with the apocalyptic combinations of El Niño, Global Warming, and the End of the Millenium, perhaps next frame is too distant by far. We beg you to take a moment to read [...]
