Items from the CIA's Museum

Lots of neat spy tools in the Flickr gallery for the CIA's Museum. Pictured are the Enigma Machine, and items from The Man From UNCLE. Via.

*Buy The Man From UNCLE toys at eBay.

World of Feng Shui (and more)

A few of the highlights from a day on Oahu:


World of Feng Shui




Shows where my head is at - - I saw these parking spots and thought, wow, this would be a good viral ad for the new V series.




Projector from the planetarium at Bishop Museum.




Inappropriate quotation marks.







Traditional art at the museum.





Two of the museum's animatronic dinosaurs.






A life-sized whale/skeleton.

*Previously: Visitor from V paper toy.

*Buy tiki at eBay.

World of Feng Shui (and more)

A few of the highlights from a day on Oahu:


World of Feng Shui




Shows where my head is at - - I saw these parking spots and thought, wow, this would be a good viral ad for the new V series.




Projector from the planetarium at Bishop Museum.




Inappropriate quotation marks.







Traditional art at the museum.





Two of the museum's animatronic dinosaurs.






A life-sized whale/skeleton.

*Previously: Visitor from V paper toy.

*Buy tiki at eBay.

Monsters and Beasts: Hairy, Scary and Unleashed museum exhibit

The Muzeo in Anaheim, California has a fun-looking exhibit called “How to Make a Monster: The Art & Technology of Animatronics." Read about it here.

*Previously: Animated bloody "hairy tale" to sell shampoo.

*Buy Creature from the Black Lagoon toys at eBay.

Monsters and Beasts: Hairy, Scary and Unleashed museum exhibit

The Muzeo in Anaheim, California has a fun-looking exhibit called “How to Make a Monster: The Art & Technology of Animatronics." Read about it here.

*Previously: Animated bloody "hairy tale" to sell shampoo.

*Buy Creature from the Black Lagoon toys at eBay.

Roadside attraction commemorates Union's plan to use dinosaurs against the South

Mark Cline creates bizarre roadside attractions, including Foamhenge and Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum. But his most inspired must be Escape From Dinosaur Kingdom in Virginia, which reenacts the Union army's fateful plan to use dinosaurs against the South.



Here's the direct link to the photo. Here's a Flickr pool dedicated to Cline's attractions. And here's two articles discussing Dinosaur Kingdom. Via.

*Previously: One Velociraptor Per Child project.

*"The Land That Time Forgot/The People That Time Forgot" dvd set is less than $5 at Amazon.

US vs Commies Plastic Toy Soldier Set

One of the gifts available in the disappointingly bland Atomic Testing museum store. The museum came to my attention when I spotted this excellent poster: