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[2005 Apr 20] [/info-sites] [#]
A lot less serious than 70 South, but a lot more fun, too. This site seems aimed at embittered polar workers with a side focus of those just curious about working at McMundo Station.
[2004 Apr 12] [/info-sites/antartica] [#]
Polar news and information, including history, current events, polls, etc.
[2004 Apr 12] [/info-sites/antartica] [#]
This site provides fairly exacting descriptions of the sexual, violent, and profane content of movies, while being as careful as possible to not give away plot points. Handy way to judge if some movie is over the line or not when watching with younger viewers. Drug use is not well covered, however.
[2005 Mar 04] [/info-sites/media] [#]
Optical toys (some too delicate for children) invented or popularized in the nineteenth century. From the magic lantern to the kinora, twelve exhibits at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
[2005 Jan 11] [/info-sites/museums] [#]
Started in the 1940s as a one-man project, this museum memorial is still a work in progress, carving a mountain into a representation of Crazy Horse on his steed. (Crazy Horse never allowed his picture to be taken, so it is not his likeness.) The 'Carving a Mountain' section is informative on this uncommon medium.
[2004 Nov 01] [/info-sites/museums] [#]
This San Francisco museum has a collection of old coin-operated games and such. Fortune tellers, an arm wrestling machine, and many more. Admission is free, but the machines still need coins. There is a java app offering a virtual tour of the museum.
[2004 Sep 07] [/info-sites/museums] [#]
This is the second largest electric shovel in the world, designated a Regional Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and now functioning as a museum dedicated to the strip mining heritage of Kansas.
[2004 Sep 07] [/info-sites/museums] [#]
As described at String Can Phone:
The Museum of Communications is a no-frills homage to the history of conversing with others unhindered by distance. Located in Seattle, WA, the museum is a virtual warehouse of every communications device ever devised, including wired, indoors telephone poles. Of particular note is the display of six generations of fully-operational central office switch frames. We are so stirred upon seeing this collection that we are inspired to pick up our plastic, magically cordless telephone handset and ask the operator for Pennsylvania 6-5000.
[2004 Sep 07] [/info-sites/museums] [#]
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
As described at String Can Phone
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a small Los Angeles museum in the tradition of a late Renaissance Wunderkammern. We were alerted to it’s existence having recently read a book about this obscure institution (Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler), but being no where near Los Angeles to visit the place in person, we decided to use this newfangled Internet for a deskchair tour.
Museums as we now know grew out of the personal collections of wonder inducing stuff that men of affluence collected in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These were typically a hodgepodge of art, technology, and natural items – all seen as facets of God’s wonderful creation. The MJT is such a collection, and imitates those wonder cabinets not just in scope but also in lack of fact checking. Truths, half-truths, fictions, and simply art all there to serve as an inspiration of wonder.
[2004 Sep 07] [/info-sites/museums] [#]