The Museum of Unworkable Devices

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Museum of Unworkable Devices

Museum of Unworkable Devices 04/11/2004 10:16 PM
Nice site covering a bunch of inventions that won't work because they go against one or more laws of physics. It also looks at impractical, but interesting inventions, like this water fountain that squirts water out of a replica of a woman's head. Link

"The Museum of Unworkable Devices"

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

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,

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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

EU biometric RFID scheme unworkable,
says EU tech report

EU biometric RFID scheme unworkable,
says EU tech report 12/24/2004 01:12 PM
Orwellian system breaks self. How appropriate...

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team 09/25/2004 09:16 AM
Ori Amiga shows off all the devices that he has hanging out in his office (someone has to test Visual Studio and make sure it works great with all the devices).

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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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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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.

Art Museum Screensaver 4.0

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

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....

CIA Online Spy Museum

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

The Museum of London

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

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....

Fiji Museum

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

Rodin Museum

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

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 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,...

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

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

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 Victoria

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

Steamboat Museum

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

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.

Mah Jong Museum

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

New Rules for Museum-Domains

New Rules for Museum-Domains 06/11/2004 03:25 AM
ICANN accredited registrar Secura announces today, that there are new rules for museum-domains and Secura is accepting registrations according to the new rules, https://www.domainregistry.de/museum.html [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]

The American Package Museum

The American Package Museum 12/05/2003 04:29 AM
O Museo Americano do Envoltorio .. The American Package Museum .. vintage packaging museum

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Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum

Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum 03/25/2005 06:27 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 25 2005 10:33AM GMT

CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum

CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum 07/26/2004 07:38 PM
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum.

Museum of Funeral History

Museum of Funeral History 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
David Pescovitz: BB reader Robert Aguirre points us to the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas where, where the "largest assemblage of fantasy coffins outside of Ghana" are on display, along with other treasures like this 1921 RockFalls hearse, hand-carved from six kinds of wood. Link

The Online Toothpaste Museum

The Online Toothpaste Museum 12/26/2003 04:22 PM
I love the Internet. It's so immense. It's so interesting. And sometimes, it is so minty-fresh. Thus it is with Toothpaste World, at http://www.toothpasteworld.com/ . This site contains over 1000 samples of toothpaste divided by location, brand name, and year...

Museum of Potted Meat

Museum of Potted Meat 01/03/2005 02:37 PM
Here's the link. Not much more to say....

The Georgian Museum of Photography

The Georgian Museum of Photography 12/28/2004 01:33 AM
www.photomuseum.org.ge/index_en.htm

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Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum 09/23/2004 05:10 AM
Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org/

The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. It allows you to discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and changed the way we work, live and play. We hope your visit will be educational and entertaining and that the legacy of these innovations live on to inspire others.

Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis
(AP)

Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis
(AP) 01/16/2004 01:05 PM
AP - At the Museum of Taxes, anecdotes about tithing in the Holy Land are meant to amuse Israelis buckling under some of the highest taxes in the world.

Behind the Scenes: The U.K.'s Science
Museum

Behind the Scenes: The U.K.'s Science
Museum 03/25/2005 05:03 PM
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at a major science museum? ExtremeTech received a sneak peek of the U.K.'s Museum of Science and Industry's archives in Swindon.

Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a
Museum Piece

Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a
Museum Piece 03/30/2005 01:44 AM
The age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us.

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.]

Sneak Peek of SF Museum

Sneak Peek of SF Museum 05/28/2004 10:50 AM

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Guangshen Railway to Double Capacity

Guangshen Railway to Double Capacity 09/17/2004 02:33 PM
The best part? The Chinese government is paying for it.

Chinese railway takes Linux on board

Chinese railway takes Linux on board 06/11/2004 06:27 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 11 2004 11:07AM GMT

Big Investors Would Gain in a Change at
Big Board

Big Investors Would Gain in a Change at
Big Board 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
The New York Stock Exchange plans to open up electronic trading to institutional investors to a much greater extent than it ever has before.

RailPower Announces Board Change

RailPower Announces Board Change 05/06/2004 09:41 PM
BC Technology May 7 2004 2:15AM GMT

Build Your Own Monowheel

Build Your Own Monowheel 04/30/2004 08:22 PM

Cool new concept monowheel

Cool new concept monowheel 11/14/2003 04:38 AM
Embrio, Bombardier's new concept monowheel -- balanced by gyros -- is pretty cool looking, and like all good vapoourware vehicles, it is powered by magic hydrogen fuel-cells. Also: night-vision and ATV-style active suspension. I love the fact that the lines are visibly CAD-generated. You can almost see the nurb and spline handles depending from the curves. L ink (Thanks, Marc!)

Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure

Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

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Citycat's Railway Web Site

Citycat's Railway Web Site 06/15/2004 04:21 PM
Citycat's Railway Web Site.

I think I saw my stalker on the railway
platform

I think I saw my stalker on the railway
platform 04/06/2005 10:04 AM
He used to follow me around in high school, but I thought he'd disappeared.

Abandoned Railway Stations

Abandoned Railway Stations 03/20/2003 08:30 AM
Servi ceton is a small railway town on the border of South Australia and Victoria, and was once a means for traders to escape taxes when travelling between the colonies, due to errors made when surveying the state borders. No train has stopped here since 1986, and now only a handful of people remain in the town, a sad downfall that Tom Waits has immortalized in song. But abandoned railway stations, closed as populations decline or trade routes change, exist the world over, in the city and in the country, and yes, even in France. They look like great places to explore.

Railway spending at all-time high

Railway spending at all-time high 06/24/2004 09:07 PM
The government's rail watchdog urges operators to "redouble efforts" to improve punctuality after record spending.

PC-1 for manufacturing 150 new railway
coaches prepared

PC-1 for manufacturing 150 new railway
coaches prepared 09/09/2004 10:05 PM
Jang Group Sep 10 2004 2:41AM GMT

Strike ballot for railway workers

Strike ballot for railway workers 04/13/2004 07:26 AM
RMT union members will be balloted on national strike action in a dispute over pay and pensions.

Chinese railway to ride on Turbolinux

Chinese railway to ride on Turbolinux 06/11/2004 11:24 AM
China's National Ministry of Railways will use Turbolinux's software for centralized package delivery operations.

Canadian Railway Hitches Up with IBM's
IT

Canadian Railway Hitches Up with IBM's
IT 12/05/2003 07:47 PM
Internet News Dec 5 2003 6:30PM ET

Railway accident leaves two dead

Railway accident leaves two dead 03/25/2005 07:06 PM
Two people have been killed after being hit by a train, just north of Darlington, police say.

Will railway reforms make a difference?

Will railway reforms make a difference? 07/15/2004 05:18 AM
The Government is expected to confirm it's taking back overall control of the railways and scrapping the Strategic Rail Authority. Will the changes make a difference?

Brighton Electric Railway - The fleet
page 1

Brighton Electric Railway - The fleet
page 1 07/31/2004 09:02 AM
passenger trolley line .. Link to article .. Daddy Long-legs

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Railway to invite tenders on Internet:
Lalu

Railway to invite tenders on Internet:
Lalu 07/11/2004 11:47 AM
Webindia123 Jul 11 2004 2:42PM GMT

Flying Scotsman locomotive fails to take
off on way to railway festival

Flying Scotsman locomotive fails to take
off on way to railway festival 05/29/2004 09:06 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com May 30 2004 1:07AM GMT

Konkan Railway deploys Anti Collision
Device

Konkan Railway deploys Anti Collision
Device 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:37PM GMT

Canadian Pacific Railway, IBM Canada ink
$154M IT outsourcing deal

Canadian Pacific Railway, IBM Canada ink
$154M IT outsourcing deal 12/02/2003 10:21 PM
The railway's mainframe and data operations will move to two IBM facilities and 100 or so of the railway's IT workers will become IBM Canada employees.

Rajiv Dutta Named to Jamdat Mobile Board
of Directors; Ebay's Chief Financial
Officer Joins Board of Wireless

Rajiv Dutta Named to Jamdat Mobile Board
of Directors; Ebay's Chief Financial
Officer Joins Board of Wireless 09/08/2004 11:06 AM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Sep 8 2004 1:31PM GMT

Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status

Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status 11/04/2003 09:54 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 4 2003 8:23AM ET

On Board the Message Board

On Board the Message Board 06/17/2005 03:54 PM
Blogs may be grabbing all the media headlines, but online travel communities are wielding a different kind of influence in the corporate airline world.

So, You Want to Be on the Board

So, You Want to Be on the Board 04/05/2005 01:18 AM
Computerworld Apr 5 2005 6:02AM GMT

RYR Q & A Board

RYR Q & A Board 07/14/2004 03:12 PM
Early Social Security penalty not that onerous.

New: In-Out Board 1.0

New: In-Out Board 1.0 04/13/2004 10:04 AM
In-Out Board is a cross-platform employee status tracking tool that uses a peer-to-peer networking engine.

The Museum of Unworkable Devices

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