Liberty Science Center in Jersey is pretty decent, and has the advantage of being right near the Statue so you can do that too.
If you're aviation/space types, I recommend the Air Force Museum in Ohio.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/exhibits/

There's also the NASA sites - Houston and Canaveral both have extensive places to walk around and see things.

Isn't it required reading in darn near every 9th grade English class? I've always thought that R&J is a terrible intro to Shakespeare, he has so many better and more engaging works.. I'd have been much happier reading Titus Andronicus or even Much Ado About Nothing as a first crack at the Bard.

Yeah, that's down there with "Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?" on the worst pick-up line ratings.

I have my Unicomp and I love it. There's nothing that gives you the same feedback in the fingertips as you type as a nice clicky board. My wife, on the other hand, hates it because - the bedroom is next to my office, and she can hear me at all hours of the night typing away. But... totally worth it.

As a bonus, I honestly feel that I get less cramping and fatigue when I'm typing happily on this rather than the crap you get most times today. Not sure if there's anything to back that up with, but I graduated from a Microsoft ergo keyboard to this and I'm far happier now.

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a mailbox here."

Speaking of important things, I wonder how the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo - running just up the street - will fare this year. Sure, consumer electronics are nice, but as we learn from Avenue Q:

Trekkie Monster: In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!

Perfect example for you. Did you like Men In Black? Because it wasn't available in this market on a single - just if you bought the album, which every other track was horrible on. Further, try Your Woman by White Town... they REALLY didn't have any other good songs, ever, but they didn't have a single either.

Perhaps what is dying is what arstechnica calls "The God Box"... but they've always also run "The Hot Rod" and "The Budget Box". In days gone by you almost needed the God Box to run the newest coolest toys (I remember having my boot disk to run Falcon back in the day because it saved memory to load straight into the game) but now the only game my sub $700 system can't run at pretty much full power is Crysis - and I think that was designed to just show off. I think there's still plenty of market for the Hot Rod and Budget Box, depending on your needs.