{"id":795,"date":"2008-08-04T07:16:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2008-07-25T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:19:20","slug":"ephemera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Ephemera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random bits of silliness, probably not worth a post of their own.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/\">Botanicalls<\/A> provides kits and instructions for building a device that will let your houseplants call you when they need water.  They&#8217;ve recently expanded the mechanism so the plant can <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/twitter\/\">alert you via Twitter<\/A> instead.  On the Internet nobody knows you&#8217;re a dogwood.<\/p>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p>The nerds over at Something Awful have <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/d\/news\/asimov-laws-robotics.php\">expanded Asimov&#8217;s Laws<\/A>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A robot may not act in such a fashion as would make dogs obsolete, because dogs are less expensive than robots, and robots should be reserved for science things.<\/p>\n<p>A robot, specifically a big, wide robot, may not pretend to be a refrigerator and then make a scary noise when a human being opens it.<\/p>\n<p>A robot should not jump in the swimming pool to save a drowning boy, because it will just electrocute everyone and then we are worse off than when we started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p>What a Feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rykTElDjFN4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rykTElDjFN4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random bits of silliness, probably not worth a post of their own. Botanicalls provides kits and instructions for building a device that will let your houseplants call you when they need water. They&#8217;ve recently expanded the mechanism so the plant can alert you via Twitter instead. On the Internet nobody knows you&#8217;re a dogwood. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}