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Every lower semi-continuous functions attains an infimum/minimum on a compact set, do you know examples of lower semi-continuous functions which are unbounded and/or don't attain their maximum/supremum?

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    Um, if the function is unbounded it can't attain it's supremum unless you allow the function to take the value infinity. Is that what you're looking for?2012-10-19
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    maybe in the first line you mean infimum/minimum instead of infimum/maximum?2012-10-19

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On the interval $[0,1]$, let $$ f(t)=\begin{cases} 0&\mbox{ if } t=0\\ \\\ \frac1t&\mbox{ if }t>0\end{cases} $$

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Consider $$ f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{}\frac1x&\text{when }x>0\\[6pt]0&\text{when }x\le0\end{array}\right. $$ on $[-1,1]$.

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Just take $f\colon [0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ given by $$ f(x)=\begin{cases}1/x&x\in(0,1],\\0&x=0.\end{cases} $$