If you're a jigsaw puzzle fan like myself, rejoice! I have added a JAVA jigsaw puzzle generator to every item page on MuseumSyndicate.com. So if you are browsing the site and feel in the mood for a puzzle, just click the jigsaw puzzle link in the item info table. For a sample, check out this beauty! I think this makes it the coolest museum website on the entire internet! :D That is all.

I found some great newsreels from World War II that I had to add before the night was over. I love old newsreels and you will notice that the video section has quite a few! :D Some of these are from the Allies and some are from the Nazis, there is even one that shows the construction of Panzer Tanks. Very cool stuff!

Today I added a few user submissions, including some schematics and ebooks. I also added some World War I pictures to the history section that are pretty cool. If you have anything you want to add to the website, feel free to email it to me or submit it through the "Submit Content" link on the right!

I just added a number of pictures from the Civil War that I found. I've always found that era fascinating, since it is cool seeing early photographs. Unfortunately, some of these are a bit gruesome. It is a shame there are no pictures of the Revolutionary War, that would really be something to see.

In other news, Museum Syndicate now has over 26,100 items in its collection and about 1,500 more waiting on my hard drive to be uploaded. The work never ends, but at least I feel I am contributing something valuable to the Internet.

I spent most of the weekend collecting about a thousand different items to add to Museum Syndicate, most of it ancient artifacts. My original goal for the website was to cover all types of museums, not just art, and by expanding the archaeological section I hope to make the scope more clear. So far I have only added a small sample of what is coming, mostly some Hindu and Buddhist artifacts. Most of the stuff I have coming up is Egyptian artifacts, 300 of which are from the British Museum in London, including the Rosetta Stone. I also have some Indian artists like Raja Ravi Varma that will soon make an appearance. Along with the ancient artifacts, I am hoping to expand the collection far beyond western art, since it is sorely lacking in things like Islamic art and Buddhist art.

In addition to the hefty quantity of new content, I also took some time to improve several of the scripts, by adding tabled lists for museums, countries, and tags, indicating how many items exist for each listing. This is a lot more aesthetically appealing and helps me to see where we need to expand. I also improved the tags list by adding a lot more tags and hiding the ones that haven't been used yet automatically. Tagging has been neglected, but I am working on a system that will make it easy to go through the database to find things that haven't been tagged.

Overall, things are going really well and I have been very productive this last week. I expect we will easily reach 26,000 items within a week's time.