{"id":5975,"date":"2009-05-01T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2009-05-01T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:14:58","slug":"3d-puzzle-sphere-thingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5975","title":{"rendered":"3d puzzle sphere thingy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this cool thing on ThinkGeek: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/geektoys\/games\/b0d0\/\">360 Puzzle Sphere<\/a>.  It sure looks familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait.  It&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve seen it before: The original was called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santarosa.edu\/~mmcginni\/superplexus\/\">Superplexus<\/a>, and it was designed by artist Michael McGinnis.   Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/12\/20\/NB161308.DTL\">article in the chron<\/a> about the saga involved in bringing his dream to market.<\/p>\n<p>At one point McGinnis made a giant one (6 feet in diameter!) and had it displayed at the 2007 Maker Faire.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the deal?  Is it a rip-off?  Is McGinnis getting paid?  I sure hope so!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superplexus\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this cool thing on ThinkGeek: the 360 Puzzle Sphere. It sure looks familiar&#8230; Oh wait. It&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve seen it before: The original was called the Superplexus, and it was designed by artist Michael McGinnis. Here&#8217;s an article in the chron about the saga involved in bringing his dream to market. At one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}