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Summer travel season is still in full swing and Wired magazine released its "100 Geeky Places To Take Your Kids This Summer" list. Chicago's very own Adler Planetarium starts the list, the proposed home to a controversial projector. Also making the list? Lincoln Park Zoo and the Shedd Aquarium.

Think you're the only one who doesn't know what's going on at the Pentagon? Don't worry, Sen. Burris is in the same boat. And he's on the Armed Services Committee. Check out this story from Wired, outlining the freshman senator's latest magic discovery. (Thanks for the tip, Peter!)

The Museum of Science and Industry announced today that a fully-functional, three-story "green" home will be built just east of the museum on its Jackson Park grounds in Hyde Park this spring. The foundation is currently being laid, and it will be open to the public from May 8, 2008 through January 4, 2009. The 2,500-square-foot home will exhibit some of the latest environmentally-friendly technologies and offer a primer on incorporating these innovations into our homes.

We usually wait until later in the day to post things that are awesome, but the Sun-Times says today's weather is "lifeless." Maybe everybody just needs an injection of stuff that doesn't suck. We're gaga for dinosaurs, so news of this mumified dinosaur made our nerd senses tingle. Even better? Phil Manning, a paleontologist at England's University of Manchester who is leading the examination, told Wired, "When I first saw it in the field, (I...

Listen, we've kept mostly quiet about the daily newspapers' coverage of the online world. We love and thrive off our paper brethren. And for the most part, aside from every story about an online trend being about 13 months behind the actual trend, we think they get it right. Hell, we actually miss James Coates, since we found his computer advice to be direct, engaging, and idiot-proof.

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...

Download the original attachment We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment...

We're a little late on this, but this month's Wired print version named two Chicago companies as top "acquisition bait." RSS provider FeedBurner and software shop 37signals clocked in at #8 and #9 respectively (and we're guessing that order is arbitrary).

In recent news, the TSA has updated the rules pertaining to liquids on planes. Starting today passengers are allowed 3-oz. travel-size cosmetics in their carry-on baggage, but they have to be in a sealed plastic baggie. "After clearing security, travelers can now bring beverages and other items purchased in the secure boarding area on-board aircraft." For more details check the TSA's website. Chicagoist knows how you love to travel; seeing as O'Hare is the busiest...

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode Miller and liked it. They also took a few pictures of the...

Yesterday Gothamist told us that Wired had a story on the GoogleCenter of America - the place that you find if you zoom into the closest point on the default Google map. It turns out the GoogleCenter of America is some field near Coffeyville, KS. Then they started doing some experiments and finding out what the GoogleCenters of New York are, which of course made us wonder what the GoogleCenter of Chicago is.

After months of sneak peeks and speculation, Schaumburg-based Motorola revealed the Rokr E2 phone on Tuesday with promises of faster download times, greater song capacity and far less suckage than its earlier model.

With all the holiday hullabaloo lately, Chicagoist is having a hard time staying motivated at work. But we bet it’d be a lot easier to do our jobs if we got to play video games all day like the folks at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last evening at The Vic, Wired kicked off Next Fest with a show curated by Jeff Tweedy featuring The Handsome Family and Joanna Newsom. The stage was stark with only a white backdrop and a chair holding a computer that pumped the sound of crickets throughout the room. Chris Anderson, Editor-In-Chief of Wired Magazine, started off the evening with a few words explaining Next Fest's history. Jeff Tweedy saunters on stage wearing the shirt...

Thirty-three year-old Ron Huberman, Mayor Richard M. Daley's new chief of staff, is a phenom. At least that's what everyone who interviews him seems to think. A softball profile in the Chicago Tribune today positively gushes over the Israeli immigrant with a U of C MBA. But so did a story in last month's Wired Magazine reviewing the spycam network Huberman developed for the Chicago Police. And Wired even gets him dropping the f-bomb. Without...

Chicago crime has dropped considerably since 2003 -- when we suffered the highest murder rate in the U.S. -- thanks in large part to police use of new technology. The May issue of Wired features all the geeky toys the police have used to reduce crime and increase efficiency.