Laxey Wheel Isabella was celebrated by the people of Laxey with a grand fayre on Saturday 24 September 2004. It is currently maintained by Manx National Heritage as part of the Great Laxey Wheel & Mines Trail. The wheel features today on the reverse side of the £20 notes issued by the Isle of Man Government. A water-powered wheel was used because the Isle of Man does not have a supply of coal for a steam-powered pump. Water from the surrounding area – including a number of local springs and streams – is collected in a cistern, which is above the level
The Project Formerly Known As Kindle Forkbomb this process the artists' message and intent was to show how easily they could clog the store with their rapidly multiplying number of books (hence Kindle Forkbomb). This is an example of critique on the digital world and the problems it poses. While it was merely a demonstration, it makes it easier to visualize the world we live in. Ubermorgen describes the media created by this human-machine combination as the creation of a new genre of decentralized fiction writing. The artist group says that these books are a compressed form of our contemporary world, but they describe just a snapshot