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  1. Not on display...yet by tdc_vga · · Score: 1 · on Spider Silk Cape Goes On Display

    The article is wrong, the cape doesn't go on display until the 25th link. So don't pop over and try and see it until next Wednesday.

  2. Re:Have a great trip! by krou · · Score: 1 · on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

    Definitely ... taking the water taxi from Embankment to Greenwich is something my mother always does when she visits. It's a great way to see the sites of London.

    I'll add my voice to the chorus for the Science Museum, and also the Natural History Museum. No geek should avoid going to these two! The British Museum is great fun, too.

    Overall, it largely depends on what sort of geeky things you go for. Check out Pollock's Toy Museum if you're into games and construction toys. If you're into trains, check out the London Transport Museum. If you're into military, there's the Imperial History Museum, or the Royal Air Force Museum. The Design Museum is pretty cool, too. If you're into history, checkout the Museum of London, which is a history of the city. Also, the Victoria and Albert Museum is also pretty interesting. More about arts and crafts, though.

    Otherwise, there's also loads of art stuff, like Tate Modern, the National Gallery ...

    Have fun!

  3. Victoria and Albert by agulliford · · Score: 1 · on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

    The British museum mostly things from foreign cultures, like blocks of stone written in three very exciting ancient languages! The V & A is much more interesting.. http://www.vam.ac.uk/

  4. Re:What's up with the modified statue? by DoubleEdd · · Score: 3, Informative · on Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map?
    It wasn't uncommon for leaves to be added to statues in relatively modern times (ie Victorian), and perhaps more recently for them to be removed again to reveal the original statue.

    David, for example, suffered this fate.

  5. Got the winning candidate by hey! · · Score: 1 · on Win a Part in the Hitchhiker's Guide

    Right here.

  6. Equivalent to placing fig leaves over the privates by geoswan · · Score: 2 · on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films
    This link describes how a plaster cast of Michelangelo's famous statue of an unclothed adolescent David, given to Queen Victoria, promptly had plaster fig leaves commissioned to cover David's privates.

    So this kind of thing was done in the days before digital technology.