Six-Legged Calf Heads for Ripley's Museum (AP)

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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 06/10/2004 10:19 PM
superb colloboration .. ingenious.org.uk .. 3 museums,

ingenious.org.uk
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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

Amanda Ripley's piece in Time

Amanda Ripley's piece in Time 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
Please stop .. Tim Blair

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Ripley's believe it or not girl
discovered with X-Ray Vision

Ripley's believe it or not girl
discovered with X-Ray Vision 01/18/2004 04:55 PM
This one is over the top but if found to be true the poor girl will end up being a...

The Three-Legged Future

The Three-Legged Future 01/07/2004 03:20 PM
There’s a real interesting note from Campbell and Swigart lamenting the fact that, down in the coding trenches, the worlds of objects and of RDBMSes and of XML are far from unified, and that attempts in that direction have been less than enthralling. I think we just have to get used to it, and from here on in, the practice of software engineering is a three-legged discipline...

Introducing the ten-legged 419er

Introducing the ten-legged 419er 01/27/2004 11:29 AM
Now even the crustaceans are at it

Legless Locomotion for Legged Robots

Legless Locomotion for Legged Robots 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
The CMU Robotics Institute has posted a new research paper (PDF format) that proposes an unusual locomotion method for legged robots. Ravi Balasubramanian, Matt Mason and other researcher are attempting to solve the problem of a high-centered robot that has become stuck in rough terrain without any contact between the robot's legs and the ground. Their solution? The robot can use its legs as reaction masses to produce "attitude oscillations that result in incremental translation". They've tested the new locomotion method using RHex as well as their own two-legged "Rocking and Rolling Robot".

lgf: a runty, stubby-legged misfit

lgf: a runty, stubby-legged misfit 09/11/2004 01:42 AM
Little Green Footballs Referer Script .. sentiments of littlegreenfootballs .. littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ .. lgf: i've got it! toasters! .. LGF

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Weapons of Calf Destruction

Weapons of Calf Destruction 12/24/2003 12:10 PM
"I guess any self-respecting rancher would have shot, shoveled and shut up, but he didn't do that". An annoyed Premier of Alberta Ralph Klein was quoted saying this on Sept 17th, 2003 at a weekend meeting of U.S. governors and western Canadian premiers in response to the discovery of one case of mad-cow found in his province.
Fast forward to today: USDA refused to release mad cow records , United Press has been requesting these documents since July 10th, 2003 and has been continually stonewalled as recently as Dec 17th ,2003. Especially troubling is the question of where the Canadian mad-cow possibly originated.

Spiders inspire eight-legged Post-it
notes

Spiders inspire eight-legged Post-it
notes 04/23/2004 10:51 AM
Arachnid molecular adhesion

Officers Confiscate Calf After
Complaints (AP)

Officers Confiscate Calf After
Complaints (AP) 03/31/2005 07:46 PM
AP - Unusual noise complaints led police to a calf tethered in a small backyard in a city neighborhood. Officers confiscated the animal. Police said the family living at the home had bought the calf at auction and said they intended to slaughter it.

One-Legged Swimmer Continues Olympic
Quest (Reuters)

One-Legged Swimmer Continues Olympic
Quest (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - One-legged South African swimmer Natalie du Toit will continue her quest in June to compete at the Athens Olympics after failing to qualify at her recent national championships.

Rare white bison calf born in Arizona

Rare white bison calf born in Arizona 05/24/2004 09:22 AM

The offal truth: People enjoy calf
brains (Reuters)

The offal truth: People enjoy calf
brains (Reuters) 12/30/2003 10:00 PM
Reuters - You can boil it in salted water, drain and chop it into neat little chunks, and then scramble it with a dozen eggs and three tablespoons of butter -- or you could coat it in cream, cheese and spices and fry to a crispy golden brown.

Thai Rescuers Save Trapped Dolphin But
Calf Missing

Thai Rescuers Save Trapped Dolphin But
Calf Missing 01/05/2005 08:31 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 5 2005 12:49PM GMT

The Offal Truth: People Enjoy Eating
Calf Brains (Reuters)

The Offal Truth: People Enjoy Eating
Calf Brains (Reuters) 12/31/2003 10:49 AM
Reuters - You can boil it in salted water, drain and chop it into neat little chunks, and then scramble it with a dozen eggs and three tablespoons of butter -- or you could coat it in cream, cheese and spices and fry to a crispy golden brown.

Three-Eyed, Double-Mouthed Calf In Good
Health -- Newborn's Extra Parts
Reportedly Work

Three-Eyed, Double-Mouthed Calf In Good
Health -- Newborn's Extra Parts
Reportedly Work 04/23/2004 05:37 AM
calf with three eyes and two mouths .. AGHHHHH!!!! .. calf .. Odd

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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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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....

Rodin Museum

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

Chicago Museum to Get Wi-Fi

Chicago Museum to Get Wi-Fi 08/27/2004 01:30 PM
The very cool Field Museum in Chicago will get a Wi-Fi network, built by Concourse: Most users will pay a "nominal" fee to access the network, but Chicago Public School kids and their teachers will get free access. The museum also envisions using the network to offer interactive exhibits in the future. The Experience Music Project, Paul Allen's music museum in Seattle, also built a Wi-Fi network in its space recently. The networks sound useful internally for museum workers as much as for an extra service for visitors. I'm not sure how willing or interested I would be in paying to access a Wi-Fi network in a museum after I've already paid an entrance fee. But the networks would offer a great conduit for delivering content about exhibits to handheld devices as part of the regular museum experience. The EMP has a bar and restaurant that people can visit without paying an entrance fee to the museum so those users might be interested in paying to use the network....

Art Museum Screensaver 4.0

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

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.]

CIA Online Spy Museum

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

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.

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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The Museum of London

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

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.

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)

Museum Victoria

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

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,...

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

Mah Jong Museum

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

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.

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

"The Museum of Unworkable Devices"

"The Museum of Unworkable Devices" 04/14/2004 03:45 AM

The renovated Museum of Modern Art

The renovated Museum of Modern Art 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

Four of us arrived at the Museum of Modern Art this morning at 10:15 am, placing us about 1000th in line.  The place was closed for a few years while $858 million was pumped in for renovation and expansion.  Before the renovation MoMA was white walls, bright lights, crushing crowds, one amazing painting out of every 20, $10 to get in.  After the near $1 billion project?  White walls, bright lights, crushing crowds, one amazing painting out of every 20... $20 to get in.  We made it into the museum by 11:15 but claustrophobia made us all anxious to leave by 12:15.  One native Manhattanite said that it was the most crowded place he had been inside during the preceding 12 months.

Personal favorite exhibit:  Bell 47 helicopter, as seen in the TV show MASH, hanging near some open stairs.  Strangest architectural detail:  glass half-walls throughout the museum topped with strips of stainless steel.  These are apparently too fragile for anyone to touch but because MoMA most resembles the line for Space Mountain at Disneyland it is hard for people to avoid putting their hands on these rails.  this necessitates the museum keeping dozens of security guards busy at all times walking around telling people not to touch the rails.

[Tip for tourists:  If you can plan at least one day ahead you can buy timed tickets on the MoMA Web site and avoid waiting on line in the cold.]

L.A. Sex Museum Chronicles the Ages (AP)

L.A. Sex Museum Chronicles the Ages (AP) 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
AP - One look at Hollywood's newest tourist attraction and it's easy to mistake it for any number of adult shops along the popular Walk of Fame.
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