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City Museum of St. Louis: Open to midnight Friday and Saturday with bar service. Thrills, Chills, and Lawsuits.

I have a bold statement for you:
The evil one here is the Mozilla team. For removing that thing.
It is obvious that this this was just natural selection at work. Hurting everyone who is so dumb that he can’t really be called a human anymore.
Just like the lion kills the zebra that fails at being a zebra by being slow and dumb as hell. ;)
Meanwhile keeping the whole herd healthy.

We humans are zebras without lions. We constantly remove all lion-like things from our lives.
And then we complain that the Idiocracy is coming.
Damn, we bring this on ourselves!

I liked that quote from bash.org:
“Why don’t we just pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself?”

Because there is a level where you’re not doing humanity any good anymore with that overprotective behavior. Instead you’re making it worse for us all.
If you think that you can expect a normal healthy human, to avoid an add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer”, then do expect that. Which results in there being no need to remove the thing.

If you ever were in the Saint Louis City Museum, you know what I mean. Life is simply better without 10 miles of protective padding for everyone. :)

It appears to be slashdotted. Service Unavailable. I guess the web administrator is in the jungle gym...

after a quick googling: http://www.citymuseum.org/3D.html (have fun with quicktime)

Kids? Every time I've been there there has been a significant percentage of 20-somethings in addition to the little ones.

The museum requires that all children are accompanied by an adult, and groups of kids must have adults in at least a 1:6 adult to child ratio. Also, it sounds like it would be fun for adults as well :-D

I think you just described the City Museum in St Louis! http://www.citymuseum.org/

Similarly, windmills dotted on the landscape are picturesque, provided they aren't visibly rusted and falling apart. (And even 1 or 2 that are rusted and falling apart can be quaint.) But an army of windmills in a rank and file, like an invading army of robot warriors, is downright ugly.

In my opinion, all large scale infrastructure like interstate roads, windmills, buildings and plants visible from a distance, should be designed with artists as well as engineers.

I just got back from visiting St Louis. It isn't a power plant, but a great example of combined art and engineering is the City Museum. Built mostly from recycled junk, but engineered to be safe for children and adults to play on - and pleasing to look at.

Another St. Louisan here. Don't forget the many unique places that make StL um...stand out.

Then again, there are bunches of genuinely cool places and events that make the town with the easy-carry handle worth living in.

UM-St. Louis also produces a seriously good literary magazine and has a strong creative writing program.

The Eads Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi (and it has a newly opened pedestrian walk-way. Be one of the first Australians to walk across the River!).

The Gateway Arch is more amazing than you think, and standing at it's foot, touching the metal is the only way to really know that.

The City Museum is 4 story Fantasyland full of lifesize whale sculptures, old airplanes, hollowed out trees, and crazy plastic tubes and wire tunnels that will be taken away once the insurance company gets wind of how cool it all is.

Plus, get here on a Friday and hang out with the rest of us Geeklifers at our weekly Geeklife Happy Hour, likely followed by all night Planetside playing.