{"id":2438,"date":"2007-02-18T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2007-02-18T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T02:57:00","slug":"2438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Brave new world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6357129.stm\" title=\"Iraqis use internet to survive war\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Astronauts&#8217; spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts&#8217; movement, according to futuristic research being conducted by a new lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/space.newscientist.com\/article\/dn11158-motionsensitive-spacesuits-could-generate-power.html\" title=\"Motion-sensitive spacesuits could generate power\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A vicious Mexican drug gang war has moved onto the Internet video site YouTube, where rivals taunt each other with blood-soaked slide shows and video of their murder victims.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17134955\/\" title=\"In Mexico, drug wars go digital\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A bionic eye that can restore sight to the blind should be commercially available within two years, scientists behind the revolutionary technology announced today.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/science\/article1395798.ece\" title=\"Millions to benefit as first bionic eye comes to market\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/\" title=\"Neatorama\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;THE US wants the world&#8217;s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/environment\/us-urges-scientists-to-block-out-sun\/2007\/01\/28\/1169919213362.html\" title=\"US urges scientists to block out sun\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/58157\/How-to-reduce-global-warming-Block-out-the-sun\" title=\"Metafilter\">more<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Backwards City\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Behind the scenes, the spread of a pathogen that targets wounded GIs has triggered broad reforms in both combat medical care and the Pentagon&#8217;s networks for tracking bacterial threats within the ranks. Interviews with current and former military physicians, recent articles in medical journals, and internal reports reveal that the Department of Defense has been waging a secret war within the larger mission in Iraq and Afghanistan &#8211; a war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/wiredmag\/0,72532-0.html?tw=wn_index_1\" title=\"The Invisible Enemy in Iraq\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave new world: &#8220;Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.&#8221; [link | via] &#8220;Astronauts&#8217; spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts&#8217; movement, according &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2438\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}