{"id":95,"date":"2005-03-12T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:41:42","slug":"the-contraption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Contraption&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are not a reader of <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">SlashDot<\/a> (and why the hell <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> you?), you might have missed this. It&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Assembled over an approximately 12-hour period by a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/\">University of Cambridge<\/a> students, The Contraption is kind of an homage to the amazing <a href=\"html\/honda-ad.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rube Goldberg&#8221; Honda Ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"movies\/the-contraption.avi\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view the movie. Requires a DivX-compatible movie player to view. For Mac users, I recommend saving the file to disk and viewing it using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\/php\/search.php?mode=basic&#038;action=search&#038;str=VLC&#038;plt%5B%5D=macosx&#038;x=15&#038;y=8\" target=\"_blank\">VLC Media Player for OS X<\/a>. OS 9 users are pretty much SOL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.pwf.cam.ac.uk\/lwh21\/machine\/\" target=\"blank\">Click here<\/a> for The Contraption Web site. (Kinda ho-hum, but they deserve the link, and the credit. Thought I&#8217;d mirror the file instead of costing them bandwidth.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are not a reader of SlashDot (and why the hell aren&#8217;t you?), you might have missed this. It&#8217;s pretty cool. Assembled over an approximately 12-hour period by a few University of Cambridge students, The Contraption is kind of an homage to the amazing &#8220;Rube Goldberg&#8221; Honda Ad. Click here to view the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}