{"id":89,"date":"2006-11-08T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-11-08T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:53:34","slug":"poking-the-shub-internet-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Poking the Shub-Internet with a Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Fang-Yu Lin is trying to make contact with the &#8220;aware&#8221; portion of the Internet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to legend, Shub-Internet, Beast of a 1024 Processors, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise and countless other appellations rests peacefully in its lair deep beneath the Pentagon. Shub-Internet is nothing less than the harsh personification of the hideous multi-tendriled Internet itself. Now, artist Fang-Yu Lin has created a way for mortals to contact the Beast &#8211; he calls it From the Great Beyond, a device he quaintly believes to be part of some sort of artsy project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Isn&#8217;t this how Skynet got started?<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/ct\/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=773\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Fang-Yu Lin is trying to make contact with the &#8220;aware&#8221; portion of the Internet. According to legend, Shub-Internet, Beast of a 1024 Processors, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise and countless other appellations rests peacefully in its lair deep beneath the Pentagon. Shub-Internet is nothing less than the harsh personification of the hideous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}