{"id":782,"date":"2008-03-19T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2008-07-20T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:10:25","slug":"why-everyone-should-read-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Why Everyone Should Read Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just picked this up off <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">\/.<\/a> Even if you aren&#8217;t a geek, you <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> not want to see the following video of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/content\/sec.php?section=BigDog\">Big Dog<\/a>, a quadrupedal robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.gov\/\">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/a>. Lots of other cool &#8216;bots to look at at BD&#8217;s site as well. Get stuffed, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AIBO\">Aibo<\/a>, I want a Big Dog for Xmas!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W1czBcnX1Ww\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W1czBcnX1Ww\" loop=\"false\" play=\"false\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Warning: robot makes annoying insectile buzzing sound. Turn your speakers down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just picked this up off \/. Even if you aren&#8217;t a geek, you can&#8217;t not want to see the following video of the Big Dog, a quadrupedal robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Lots of other cool &#8216;bots to look at at BD&#8217;s site as well. Get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}