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Another strong agreement for both The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village.

Right next to it is the automotive hall of fame which is quite a bit smaller but a must for any car lover interested in the inventors behind their inventions: http://automotivehalloffame.org/

There seems to be this car thing we're all into in South East Michigan :-) .

(in b4 bankruptcy: shut it up)

While you're in the midwest you should also go to Chicago's Field Museum (its huge, you would need a whole day): http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
The Museum of Science and Industry (they have a captured U-Boat and an enigma machine there http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/ !): http://www.msichicago.org/
And you can always stand in front of the Seurat like Cameron did in Ferris Bueller's Day Off at the Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/

While others have mentioned both the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry, it should be noted that they are co-located with the (also excellent) Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium. Not far away is the world-class Art Institute of Chicago. Much of this is the legacy of the 1893 Chicago World Fair, and in terms of density of world-class museums, is more bang for your time and dollar that you'll get anywhere outside of Washington DC (Smithsonian, etc) and perhaps London. You can get a multi-day pass to all of these museums for anywhere from about $70/person, and it is well worth it.

Chicago does have the Museum of Science and Industry, but also houses the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, and the Shedd Aquarium. While it seems that this would be less interesting, it's worth mentioning the Chicago Art Institute too. All of these museums are fairly close to each other (with the exception of the Museum of Science and Industry).

Well, first of all, modules in Drupal are code plugins. The stuff you move from one side of the page to another is a "block". :-)

Drupal is great for getting something out quickly, but yes, for any serious site you are going to be using numerous "contrib" modules (the add-on systems you mention). Drupal's architecture is built around letting add-on modules do the powerful stuff, while core is an engine to enable them to do powerful stuff.

For instance, if you're building a complex site without the CCK and Views modules, you're missing 2/3 of what Drupal has to offer. You can build sites that look and function nothing like "normal Drupal" without touching core code if you know where to "bend" it, and there are a large number of places where Drupal is designed to bend. No, you can't crank out the NYTimes web site in a weekend, but you can't do that with any CMS, and any CMS vendor that claims they can is lying to you. :-)

A small sampling of Drupal sites launched in the last year or two:

http://www.imamuseum.org/
http://artsci.wustl.edu/
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections
http://www.motogp.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://donna.be/
http://www.fastcompany.com/
http://www.flipkowlier.be/
http://popsci.com/
http://rockband.com/

And several dozen from SonyBMG Music, such as:
http://www.pinkspage.com/
http://www.avrillavigne.com/
http://jenniferlopez.com/
http://britney.com/

You can do very non-Drupaly sites with Drupal if you learn to embrace contrib modules. :-)

(Disclaimer: I worked on several of the sites listed above.)

Here's something interesting. The person that submitted the story did not even read the patent. The proof is quite simple. At the start of the patent is a list of prior art. This list includes:

Gena et al., Sixth International Syumposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, 1995: 83-85. XI Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Univerista di Bologna, 1995: 203-204. http://www.artic.edu/.about.pgena/docs/CIMXI-gena- strom.pdf, pp. 1-2 "Musical Synthesis of DNA Sequences." cited by other.

I presume this is the self same conference mentioned in the submission. So, it was cited against the application and it was found to be novel over that and plenty of other cited prior art documents. I'm sure you could look at the file wrapper for a deeper reading of the arguments but the point is clear. The applicants and examiner were both aware that something similar was done in 1995 but that this patent has some advance over that.

Wasn't there a painted around the turn of the century that did something similar though?

Georges Seurat is the painter I believe you are thinking of. His most famous painting (to my knowledge anyway) is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884 located at The Art Institute of Chicago. There is even a Wikipedia page devoted to Seurat.

I'm sure being included in Ferris Buehler's Day Off helped to raise its profile. There is also a scale model in topiary here (very cool!)

I suppose he should be a "design fag" to get admittance? It's not like he just got accepted into the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. (Though, their webpage might suggest he would be welcome)

I'm in an almost identical situation to the person you responded too. Almost any game invloving hurtling spheroids is a nightmare. Through school I thought my name what "Whiff". I always find it fascinating when I get a glimpse of binocular 3-d. There is a painting by Constance Troyon at the Art Institute of Chicago which manages to do it, and I am hypnotized by the painting every time I see it (you can see it here, it's called the Marsh..)

How about a Tuxinated version of American Gothic? Folksy, down-to-earth, hard-working back-to-the-lan values... (Ignoring the slight creepiness or other take-offs like in Rocky Horror.)

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For the love of God, or Webster, or both Funk and Wagnalls, it's Arctic, not Artic.

A little review...

Artic

Arctic

Artic

Arctic

Sheesh.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Perhaps you've heard of it?

If not, perhaps you've heard of the Art Institute of Chicago?

School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Perhaps you've heard of it?

If not, perhaps you've heard of the Art Institute of Chicago?