{"id":2796,"date":"2007-11-18T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2007-11-18T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:12:00","slug":"2796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Brave new world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;U.S. discount retailer Target Corp, known for its innovative marketing, is staging a &#8220;model-less&#8221; fashion show in Manhattan next week that will feature holograms strutting down a runway in its merchandise instead of size-zero models.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSN0144072920071101?rpc=92\" title=\"Holograms bump models from New York catwalk\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=490669&#038;in_page_id=1770\" title=\"Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/08\/AR2007100801434.html\" title=\"Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Under the cloud cast by Steve Fossett&#8217;s apparent accident, Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic moves forward with the ambitious Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/aviationspace\/0dda47fb317d4110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\" title=\"Amid a Second Tragedy, Plans for a U.S. Spaceport are Unveiled\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/eatourbrains.com\/EoB\/\" title=\"Eat Our Brains\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Genetically modified plants that can break down pollutants may be an effective way to clean soil contaminated by industrial chemicals and explosives used by the military, according to scientists.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2007\/oct\/16\/gmcrops\" title=\"Trees with rabbit genes accelerate cleaning of soil\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/\" title=\"theinferior4+1\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.goodmagazine.com\/transparency\/007\/trans007storespace.html\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dark matter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news107109720.html\" title=\"Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Homo Sum\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave new world: &#8220;U.S. discount retailer Target Corp, known for its innovative marketing, is staging a &#8220;model-less&#8221; fashion show in Manhattan next week that will feature holograms strutting down a runway in its merchandise instead of size-zero models.&#8221; [link | via] &#8220;New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2796\">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-2796","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\/2796"}],"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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}