{"id":7083,"date":"2011-08-01T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T00:54:04","slug":"monday-various-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7083","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I am strangely fascinated by NASA&#8217;s book for the visually impaired, <a href=\"http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/articles\/tactile\">Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters<\/a>. It&#8217;s sold out right now; they do have the text and an audio version freely available, but that seems like it misses the whole point of a <i>tactile<\/i> book. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/\" title=\"SF Scope\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Have we all been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalmiss.com\/issue10\/CampaignRealMonopoly1.html\">playing <i>Monopoly<\/i> wrong<\/a> all these years? I like <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/2011\/07\/theres_no_wrong_way_to_play_monopoly\/\">Waxy.org&#8217;s post<\/a> about it, in which Andy Baio writes, &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting to see a commercial game see the same sort of cultural variation as other children&#8217;s folk games.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/1026061--tv-s-cash-cab-kills-pedestrian-in-vancouver\">TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCash Cab\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 kills pedestrian in Vancouver<\/a>. Reality television is <i>dangerous<\/i>, people! [<a href=\"http:\/\/daveshumka.tumblr.com\/\" title=\"Eureko\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/health\/fitness-well-being\/blogs\/can-you-survive-baltimores-5k-zombie-run\">Can you survive Baltimore&#8217;s 5k run<\/a>? Sounds like <i>The Wire<\/i> meets <i>The Walking Dead<\/i>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/teambanzai\" title=\"@teambanzai\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the Empathic Civilisation [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7AWnfFRc7g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am strangely fascinated by NASA&#8217;s book for the visually impaired, Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters. It&#8217;s sold out right now; they do have the text and an audio version freely available, but that seems like it misses the whole point of a tactile book. [via] Have we all been playing Monopoly wrong all &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7083\">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":[],"tags":[16,35,83,37,115,38,113,17,10,142,39,24],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-games","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-philosophy","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-video","tag-weird","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083"}],"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=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}