Tag: museum
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That time I got locked-in at the V&A
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One time, I got locked-in at the V&A Museum after closing-time. I'd been there for a museums & cultural institutions event and I'd probably had a few too many glasses of champagne before I excused myself to return to my hotel. Unfortunately in my … -
Hint Line 93
Hint Line 93 is an amazing interactive exhibit about the experience of working on a computer games hint line. It's a deeply-researched, immersive, and clever piece of art... and even though the real experience is in a Australian museum, you can play an approximation of it via the Web. Awesome.
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The Scroll Art Museum
The Scroll Art Museum demonstrates a surprisingly cool way of generating animation using ASCII art in a scroll buffer and... look, it's just cool, okay? And it inspired me to dust off a copy of QBASIC for a moment, too...
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The eldest is really getting into her WW2 studies at school, so I arranged a trip for her and a trip to the ever-excellent Bletchley Park for a glimpse at the code war that went on behind the scenes. They're clearly looking forward to the opportunity to look like complete swots on Monday.
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Dan sits on a padded bench in a cinema-style room, pointing his thumb at the two children sitting on a row in front of him.
Bonus: I got to teach them some stories about some of my favourite cryptanalysts. (Max props to the undersung Mavis Batey!)
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Found GC9MY4J IJtunnel
This checkin to GC9MY4J IJtunnel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My work team and I have been meeting in Amsterdam, but this is our "afternoon off" so we're going to the maritime museum. I'm not convinced that the person I found was particularly beautiful, but I appreciated the hint …
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Yours Quim-cerely
I received a lovely letter from the Vagina Museum - which I've not had the opportunity to visit yet - printed on their new laserjet printer.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn't signals propogate along this copper cable at "only" somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?
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Review of Banbury Museum Trust
This review of Banbury Museum Trust originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Banbury Museum Trust, Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury OX16 2PQ, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Review of Riverside Museum
This review of Riverside Museum originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.
Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):
Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. … -
Review of Blists Hill Victorian Town
This review of Blists Hill Victorian Town originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Legges Way, Madeley, Telford TF7 5UD, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fun, if slightly pricey, dive into history. Friendly staff help the experience to come alive.
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Review of History of Science Museum
This review of History of Science Museum originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. History of Science Museum, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AZ, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My favourite Oxford museum! Fascinating collections and imaginative exhibitions. Space is a little tight (especially when the tourists are out and about) and the disabled …
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Secrets of Magic
Do you know the secret of magic? The secret of magic isn't, as many people think, secrets, but something else entirely...
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Blacksmithing
Dan and his coworker Liz take a day's course in blacksmithing, and discover quite how much hard work it is.