{"id":543,"date":"2007-08-27T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=543"},"modified":"2007-08-27T02:00:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T07:00:04","slug":"artist-sets-sail-in-life-size-paper-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/08\/27\/artist-sets-sail-in-life-size-paper-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n

Boelter [the boat’s designer] said it will survive forty days before it disintegrates into a wet, sinking mass.<\/p>\n

It’s aqua-origami, all right, but is it art?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember a game in my high school physics class where the everyone class made life-size paper boats out of whatever material student could scavange. The raft that won, was made out of 30+ milk cartons glued water tight. The other boats had varying degrees of success and the pool was a mess from the Elmer’s glue that we were required to use.<\/p>\n

Geeky Vanity Plates<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n

You’d think Chuck’s license plate would be in here, but “podcast” is still a bit too niche to show up on anyone’s radar.<\/p>\n

The Pear Light: Portable light bulbs that grow on trees<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n

Now that I think about it, here’s an idea that should’ve been around since Uncle Fester was on TV. I guess it just wan’t practical until LED technology matured.<\/p>\n

Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat via Digg Boelter [the boat’s designer] said it will survive forty days before it disintegrates into a wet, sinking mass. It’s aqua-origami, all right, but is it art? I remember a game in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}