{"id":606,"date":"2008-12-07T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-12-07T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T22:02:26","slug":"alphabet-blocks-for-your-mad-scientist-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/alphabet-blocks-for-your-mad-scientist-in-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet Blocks for your Mad Scientist in Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nXylocopa has a set of Alphabet blocks<\/a> engraved with pictures of all the equipment and training a budding mad scientist will need:<\/p>\n

A – Appendages | B – Bioengineering | C – Caffeine | D – Dirigible | E – Experiment | F – Freeze ray | G – Goggles | H – Henchmen | I – Invention | J – Jargon | K – Potassium | L – Laser | M – Maniacal | N – Nanotechnology | O – Organs | P – Peasants (with Pitchforks) | Q – Quantum physics | R – Robot | S – Self-experimentation | T – Tentacles | U – Underground Lair | V – Virus | W – Wrench | X – X-Ray | Y – You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow | Z – Zombies\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

\n…the blocks have a super-secret built in encryption function – if you rotate any block 180 degrees, it’ll encode to ROT13<\/strong>. If it’s good enough for Adobe Acrobat, it’s good enough for Mad Science!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

-via BoingBoing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xylocopa has a set of Alphabet blocks engraved with pictures of all the equipment and training a budding mad scientist will need: A – Appendages | B – Bioengineering | C – Caffeine | D – Dirigible | E – Experiment | F – Freeze ray | G – Goggles | H – Henchmen | […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,23,24,1,15,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}