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| This is a page all about Hacker Travel- with guides, suggestions and links to all kinds of interesting things to do while you are away from DC. Suggestions thanks to the hacdc.org mailing lists. | | This is a page all about Hacker Travel - with guides, suggestions and links to all kinds of interesting things to do while you are away from DC. Suggestions thanks to the hacdc.org mailing lists. |
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| == Boston ==
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| baghaii:
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| I am not sure if you are limited to public transportation or not.
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Museum
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| http://www.larzanderson.org/Topics/Topic.cfm?TopicName=Home&CFID=536300&CFTOKEN=51791476
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| http://www.hammondcastle.org/common/index.php?com=HAMM&div=AA&nav=AA&page=A91
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Wireless_Station_Site
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| The BU Photonics Center has some interesting sculptures that involve light.
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| There is a really cool sculpture on the 7th floor. There is the thing by
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| the elevator. I forget what it is supposed to do. Understand commands? I
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| don't remember what it did or if it ever quite worked.
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| Not relevant but I have always wanted to go.
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| http://www.museumofbadart.org/
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| rmadams:
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| Wow! Too cool! I loved _loved_ living in Boston/Cambridge. There are
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| lots of great geek things to do and see in Boston. Here are a few of
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| my favorites:
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| 1. See the amazing hacks in the "Nightwork" exhibit at the MIT Museum-
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| geeks at MIT have been performing amazing hacks for _decades_.
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| Besides, the MIT museum is just plain cool. See it at:
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| http://web.mit.edu/museum/ It is cool, and kind of offbeat, and a lot
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| of fun.
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| 2. You can also check out the MIT campus, which is right nearby- it is
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| a lot of fun to walk around there, and see the Media Lab, the AI Lab,
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| etc. etc. Plus, if your timing is good, you can check out such sights
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| as the famous "Infinite Corridor," etc. in the buildings. You might
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| even run into folks like Marvin Minsky hanging around. If you read
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| Levy's "Hackers"
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| (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/0141000511)
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| before you go, you will get some of the history and local color.
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| 3. While you are there in Cambridge, have lunch/dinner at the amazing
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| "Miracle of Science" bar/grill. All of their tables are laboratory
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| soapstone, and the menus is chalked up on a chalkboard in "periodic
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| table" form. Very amusing. They don't serve their drinks in
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| laboratory glassware, but the food good and the place is fun. You can
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| overhear some very interesting tech/science conversations there.
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| (http://www.miracleofscience.us/)
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| 4. After lunch/dinner, grab drinks (and maybe catch some
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| music/dancing) at the Enormous Room, one T stop up in Central Square:
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| http://www.enormous.tv/ENORMOUS_2004/main1.html
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| 5. Across the River (almost) you can visit the Boston Museum of
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| Science, which has a lot of really fun stuff, but don't miss the
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| electricity show, using some of the original "atom smashers" giant Van
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| de Graaff generators. Very, very cool. And loud. Also check out the
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| scale model of the solar system. To get to Pluto, you need to take
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| the T (Green Line) all the way out to the end of the line in
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| Riverside... (http://www.mos.org/)
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| 6. Check out Willoughby and Baltic at their new digs in Union Square:
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| http://willoughbybaltic.ning.com/. They might have some fun
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| hacker-type stuff going on while you are there. Totally cool
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| tech/arts collective.
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| Sheesh. I could go on forever. Hope this gives you a start- contact
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| me if you want more of the same!
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| Everyone's suggestions are great! I completely forgot about the
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| atrium at the Broad (pronounced to rhyme with "road" in case you have
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| to ask around to find it.) I spend so much time that there that I
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| forgot about the displays in the atrium. It is really neat. If you
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| are down that road, you can walk through the atrium at Draper Labs,
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| where a bunch of the hardware they designed for the lunar landings is
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| displayed. It is actually very cool.
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| http://www.draper.com/Apollo/apollo_at_draper.html
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| If you take the Red Line "T" the rest of the way up to Harvard Square,
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| you can check out my personal favorite comic book store, "Million Year
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| Picnic" (http://themillionyearpicnic.com/) My brother ran into Ben
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| Affleck there- apparently it is his favorite comic book store, too.
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| As for bookstores, check out the Harvard Coop, right around the
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| corner there- they have a pretty remarkable selection of stuff
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| academic and otherwise.
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| Okay- I promised that I would not go on and on- I am making myself homesick!
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| mml:
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| These are slightly adjacent to the topic directly at hand (already well covered)
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| If you are in to bookstores. (I was so excited when I found out about
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| Reiter's here in DC).
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| - MIT Press book store is cool
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| - Schoenhof's, the most amazing foreign language store anywhere, with
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| tons of useful stuff for learners. http://www.schoenhofs.com/
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| I enjoyed The Computer Museum, but it's gone now. I hear the Museum
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| of Science is good, though.
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| Um, if bikes appeal at all, Broadway Bicycle School is cool and has a
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| nice DIY angle. http://www.broadwaybicycleschool.com/
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| curiouslee:
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| Adding to all the great suggestions (I'm at the Media Lab this coming
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| Tue-Thu)...
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| Not far from MIT Press are:
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| *The DNAtrium*
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| http://www.broadinstitute.org/outreach/dnatrium/dnatrium
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| This is a lobby museum on genome mapping with huge curved interactive video
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| walls.
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| *Stata Center*
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center
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| Amazing Frank Gehry building if you're into crazy architecture. There's an
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| elevated central courtyard. During day hours, you should be able to get
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| inside.
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| *The Media Lab*
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
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| Access to the lab spaces is controlled, but you can walk the upper atrium
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| where there is the List Visual Arts Center http://listart.mit.edu/ and the
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| lower atrium where you can press your nose up against the Lifelong
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| Kindergarten Lab or even step inside if you are nice to one of the lab staff
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| that might be inside. The Media Lab is also nearing completion of a
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| new expansion out back http://www.media.mit.edu/about/building
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| I'd offer up a peek into the offices of One Laptop per Child (and Nicholas
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| Negroponte's office), but I know they are swamped this weekend with visiting
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| students.
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| dcmk1mr2:
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| While in Harvard Sq, check out the sign in one of the corner windows for the
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| law firm DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE. They're the lawyers for NPR's Car Talk.
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