I was curious about this sig too…
Having never been to Seattle nor Toronto, my first thought was that it was like the Oriental Pearl TV tower in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. But the sig’s focus building is missing the lower ball…
If it were Shanghai there would probably be many more tall buildings all around it, some of which would be very difficult to render in ASCII art… 
Still and all, an amusing discussion piece of a sig… Well done.
(Maybe it could be ruby code to generate random city scapes?)
Lachlan Pitts
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:48 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: OT: IE blatantly defiant of HTML standards
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:50:49AM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote:
PS: What building is this?
looks like seattle. but i’m not the art’st so perhaps its elsewheres.
Any chance it might be Toronto?
That tall structure looks more like the CN Tower to me than the Needle of
Seattle. Also, that structure just left of it could be the Sky Dome.
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Sky Dome CN Tower
Then again, I’m Torontonian, so I guess I like it to be Toronto.
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Daniel Carrera
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University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137