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"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television."

"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television." 06/11/2004 05:57 PM

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television 06/10/2004 10:19 PM
superb colloboration .. ingenious.org.uk .. 3 museums,

ingenious.org.uk
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Chicago or

Chicago or 04/24/2004 11:49 AM
Our salvation lay in a pool of Mutter Paneer. It crept on us, this stimulation deprivation. The side effects of touring with Citizens. Day after day of a similarly blurry mid-western view from beyond the van's windows while we listened to the same CDs and played the same songs and ate the same kinds of foods - the endurance of so much repetitive stimuli had worn away at our ...

POE in Chicago (02.03.04)

POE in Chicago (02.03.04) 01/25/2004 06:25 PM
inkdroid writes "At the next chicago.pm meeting (02.03.04) Jonathan Steinert (hachi) will provide tips and insight into using the Perl Object Environment (POE). The meeting will be held in our tech-meeting digs at WDI. More information available ...

CIA Spy Museum

CIA Spy Museum 12/29/2003 11:50 PM

CIA Museum Showcases Exotic Spy Gadgets. Spy satellites, anti-rocket laser cannons — you know the drill.

Besides the jungle transmitter, the exhibits include a robotic catfish, a remote-controlled dragonfly and a camera strapped to the chests of pigeons and released over enemy targets in the 1970s. The secret gadgets currently used by CIA are left to the imagination of visitors.

I wonder how this compares to the Intern ational Spy Museum.

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Mpire In Chicago

Mpire In Chicago 12/19/2004 03:15 PM
Check out this scan from the Chicago Sun Times newspaper of the M&M Star Wars promo sent in by "Fettfan". Looks like the M&M characters are ready for their Mpire debut!

Monday in Chicago

Monday in Chicago 07/13/2004 10:08 AM
My wife and I arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon, prepared with suggestions from y'all about what to see and do. Thanks! It was a beautiful day, so we set out down Michigan and walked along the lake shore. It is an odd and beautiful vista to see the skyscrapers hanging like a curtain behind the strip of beach. Then we walked through the Navy Pier, the mall-arcade-amusement park where I drank something blue and sugary. We continued along the shore and then headed back to the hotel. Don't hate us, but we passed a movie theater and on an...

Chicago is sinking

Chicago is sinking 05/20/2004 02:16 PM
USA Today May 20 2004 6:49PM GMT

Goin' to Chicago...

Goin' to Chicago... 07/11/2004 09:22 AM
My wife and I are taking 3 days of vacation in Chicago, starting tomorrow. I've been there many times on business, which means I'm very familiar with the airport and am fully qualified to operate the remote in the hotel rooms, and my wife hasn't been there in 30 years or so. So, we're going to do the tourist thing. Outside of the obvious, any recommendations? (Three notes: Second City is closed the days we're there, we don't eat meat and we don't much care for the blues.)...

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune 06/22/2004 05:28 PM
bombshell

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Patriot Act comes to Chicago

Patriot Act comes to Chicago 04/13/2005 02:50 PM
Secret Service agents took in an art exhibit in Chicago last week. It was business, not pleasure.

Chicago Sun-Times Has RSS!

Chicago Sun-Times Has RSS! 03/14/2005 06:22 PM

In my RSS presentations, I always use the Chicago Sun-Times as an example because NewsIsFree has been scraping their site for years. I used to be more of a Chicago Tribune reader, but I've become a Sun-Times person because of that feed.

Now, though, Steven, IMs to tell me he's found a feed on the Sun-Times site itself! Great news for Chicago newspaper fans! Maybe this will even trickle down to my Sun-Times-affiliated local papers...!

Class::DBI @ chicago.pm

Class::DBI @ chicago.pm 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
inkdroid writes "At this Tuesday's chicago.pm meeting Jay Strauss will be talking about Class::DBI. If you aren't familiar with CDBI, it's a perl module that performs all the drudgery of converting objects to relational databases and vice versa. If you ...

BloggingWorks in Chicago

BloggingWorks in Chicago 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
If you're not able to join us this Saturday in New York, then those of you with an interest in...

Wednesday in Chicago

Wednesday in Chicago 07/15/2004 10:42 AM
Our second (and last) full day of vacation in Chicago ended well but began with a disappointment. We slogged off to the Museum of Science and Industry. Despite its Stalinist name, it's actually one of those interactive science places that seems to be the offspring of a museum that got lusty with an amusement park during shore leave. You're always just a twist or a yank or a pop away from learning something. Unfortunately, the science seems aimed squarely at the Square Pants set. Why, did you know that DNA is all helixy, that friction generates heat, and that...

Tuesday in Chicago

Tuesday in Chicago 07/14/2004 11:36 AM
We had a great day yesterday on vacation in Chicago, although it wasn't particularly good in clearing items from our checklist. We got off to a late start because after breakfast I had a conference call I had to participate in. So, it was 1pm before we really headed out. We walked along Michigan and came upon the Millennium Park, due to open on Friday. We couldn't get a good enough view of the new Gehry concert shell, which looked twisty and interesting, but the site is interrupted by large photos of families from around the world, with just a...

Museum Cats

Museum Cats 09/23/2004 11:35 AM
The Art of Cats:
The Katte nkabinet (Cat Cabinet, the Cat Museum) of Amsterdam: a collection of objects d'art wholly centered around the theme of the cat, among which you will find a wonderful gallery including Picasso. Controversial social taboos are not avoided. Malaysia's Cat City of Kuching has a Cat Museum; more info on the Museum of Meows he re (Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows in mourning when the family cat died. Malays attached superstitions to cats believing they possessed supernatural powers...) The scullery of Kathleen Mann's Antiques in London's High Street has a "Purrfect Museum" too, with 250 exhibits from all over the world going back to the 1770s, founded by Kathleen and her mother ... Kitty. Not to be outdone, Lith uania and Russia have cat museums as well.

Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns

Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns 06/13/2004 04:49 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 13 2004 8:05PM GMT

CIA Online Spy Museum

CIA Online Spy Museum 12/27/2003 12:30 PM
The CIA's Online Spy Museum

Pics of Sci-Fi Museum

Pics of Sci-Fi Museum 06/07/2004 03:51 PM
Kirsten Anderson of Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle posted some pictures from the "friends and family" premiere of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. Link

SF museum site

SF museum site 06/11/2004 07:32 PM
The website for Seattle's science fiction museum is live. Link (Thanks, Fun Furde)

Steamboat Museum

Steamboat Museum 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Steamboat Museum.

Fiji Museum

Fiji Museum 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
Welcome to the Fiji Museum.

Mah Jong Museum

Mah Jong Museum 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Welcome to The Mah Jong Museum.

The Kelet Museum

The Kelet Museum 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
what you are about to discover is a creature not of this world .. Kelet Museum .. kelets

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Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria 03/21/2003 10:20 AM
Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation. [more]

Rodin Museum

Rodin Museum 07/07/2004 02:52 PM
Rodin Museum.

Art Museum Screensaver 4.0

Art Museum Screensaver 4.0 06/22/2004 06:51 PM
A compilation of some of histories greatest art.

Framley Museum

Framley Museum 12/03/2003 02:38 PM
Framley Museum. 'The museum was founded in 1882 when objects of local interest began to gather in the field where the museum now stands, due to the natural action of the wind and rain. '
'In 1886, visionary Whoft philanthropist, Manimal MacCorkindale proposed building some walls around the objects, forming Framley's first museum. A door fitted in 1932 cemented the museum's popularity.'
Courtesy of the mighty Framley Examiner.

The Museum of London

The Museum of London 12/07/2003 08:14 AM
The Museum of London.

DC Museum Report

DC Museum Report 12/17/2004 06:36 PM

Wrapping up my stay in Washington, DC, here's a report on the museums.  The National Gallery has a Dan Flavin show.  Even if you have seen his fluorescent light works in Marfa, Texas or at Dia:Beacon this exhibition is worthwhile.  My favorite piece is "untitled (honor of Harold Joachim) 3", a corner installation that graces the cover of Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights.  The new National Museum of the American Indian has a temporary show of George Morrison wood collages.  Morrison was a 20th century Chippewa artist.  The cafeteria is fantastic.  The rest of the American Indian museum is worth seeing in the sense that a train wreck is fascinating.  The project cost more than $220 million and is kind of a sick supersized parody of Frank Lloyd Wright's NY Guggenheim.  There is a huge cylindrical atrium that is basically empty and that barely relates to the exhibits, which are well off to the side in dark claustrophobic galleries.  The artwork and artifacts are dimly lit and crammed into crowded display cases.  Compared to the anthropology museum in Mexico City or the average American Indian museum in Oklahoma or South Dakota this new Smithsonian is a depressing example of the current state of American non-profit organization management.  It reminds one of the disappointing Udvar-Hazy Air and Space annex at Dulles Airport, where nearly $1 billion seems to have been invested in the kind of museum that Polynesian cargo cultists might have built.  I.e., a lot of interesting objects (airplanes) are displayed but the assumption is that they can't be understood or explained.

[Update:  Ellis Vener just emailed a photo that he snapped of Alex in the back seat.]

museum of idiots

museum of idiots 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
I saw Phil Hellmuth at E3 today, in what I think was the Yahoo! Games booth (I'm not entirely sure,...

Music Museum to Get Wi-Fi

Music Museum to Get Wi-Fi 12/08/2003 04:45 PM
I wrote a story for the Seattle Times about a planned wireless network at the Experience Music Project: The rock museum, built by Paul Allen, plans to offer the network to visitors but also use it for a variety of internal functions. One plan is to use the network to stream audio and video to handheld devices that visitors can carry around through the exhibits. I'm not sure I did a very good job of conveying how interesting this project is. For those of you who aren't familiar with the EMP or haven't seen pictures, it's a Frank Gehry building that looks like a bunch of colorful lumps glued together. I would imagine that building a wireless network there would be a nightmare, given the structure doesn't have a single right angle. I'll be interested to check back with the folks at EMP in a couple of months when more of the network should be in place to hear about the experience. Then I'd like to check in again next summer to see how many of the ambitious applications are actually in place....

The Chicago Tribune is reporting

The Chicago Tribune is reporting 04/28/2004 05:51 AM
More bad news .. also reports

chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0404270148apr27,1,4523980.st ory?coll=chi-business-hed
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Segway Home Chicago

Segway Home Chicago 08/19/2004 12:08 AM

Segway Retailers Zip into Area

"The first Segway Human Transporter stores are scheduled to open this weekend in Chicago and LaGrange. The pair will be the only Segway stores in the state and two of just 35 dealerships in the country.....

...The new shops will let consumers practice on the models so they can check them out before buying one." [Chicago Sun-Times]

LaGrange is the next suburb over from where I work, so you know what we'll be doing during lunch one day next week! I'll definitely be moblogging that one. :-)

One-Man Lord of The Rings Comes to
Chicago

One-Man Lord of The Rings Comes to
Chicago 12/29/2004 08:09 PM

The Chicago Apple Store

The Chicago Apple Store 06/25/2004 08:32 PM

I'm writing this from the second floor of the Apple store on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. We spent the day with the guys from 37 Signals at The Building of Basecamp Workshop. I'm on a little iMac, and I have to admit it's impressive....the store, I mean.

Everything is clear lucite, bleached wood, and concrete. Even the stairs are translucent plastic of some kind. I gotta say — Apple has a thing for style. There's a forty seat movie theater up here, but I have no idea what it's for.

I just called Rob and left him a message that I was standing in his own, personal Nirvana. I better get out of here, actually, because some of these machines are looking really nice (but how do you live without a scroll wheel?!).

The iMac I'm on has a little camera on top of it, and it's displaying real-time video of me, but I can't figure out how to get it to take a picture. You'll just have to take my word for it that I'm actually here.

Joe and I have a pizza waiting for us at the Pizzar ia Uno on Ontario and Ohio. Gotta run.

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Welcome to OCA: Greater Chicago Chapter

Welcome to OCA: Greater Chicago Chapter 03/23/2005 05:13 AM
Organization of C

ocachicago.org
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CBS 2 Chicago: Illinois Wire

CBS 2 Chicago: Illinois Wire 06/22/2004 04:37 AM
Ryan papers contain allegations he pressured wife for public sex .. now

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