{"id":460,"date":"2007-10-03T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2007-10-03T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T13:03:27","slug":"cars-booze-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Cars, booze, and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what it would look like if you combined the movement of 1000 through a racing game into one movie? <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=5600763158479488004\">Wonder no more!<\/a> The result is really very beautiful, although perhaps a bit longer than needed.<\/p>\n<p>Ever thought that a beer or two a day makes you smarter? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2007\/10\/03\/kiwi_boffins_prove_booze_makes_you_clever\/\">Apparently it does!<\/a> (If you&#8217;re a rat, tests haven&#8217;t been performed on humans yet.) Sadly, several alcoholic drinks per day does appear to make you less intelligent, but moderate daily alcohol intake makes you smarter than a teetotaller. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>Ever wanted to see roads in Japan in the virtual window thingy that you can see all around from while moving along the road? &#8230; Err&#8230; What? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsukuba.info\/mapoint\/vm\/\">Just click one of the little &#8216;VM&#8217; icons on the junctions, then click one of the arrows<\/a>, then move your mouse around over the pop up window and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what it would look like if you combined the movement of 1000 through a racing game into one movie? Wonder no more! The result is really very beautiful, although perhaps a bit longer than needed. Ever thought that a beer or two a day makes you smarter? Apparently it does! (If you&#8217;re a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cars, booze, and Japan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-7q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}