{"id":2769,"date":"2010-10-11T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:15:41","slug":"hadron-the-flat-pack-particle-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/hadron-the-flat-pack-particle-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"HADR\u00d6N &#8211; &#8220;The Flat Pack Particle Accelerator&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this gem when following an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fanzines#!\/fanzines?v=wall\" target=\"_blank\">Zines page<\/a> on Facebook, run by Alex Zamora of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feverzine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fever Zine<\/a>. An A5, 15 page, black and white illustrated Zine by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelindstromeffect.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lindstr\u00f6m Effect<\/a> collective,\u00a0 &#8220;HADR\u00d6N&#8221; is a mock instruction manual for the Large Hadron Collider, in the style of IKEA furniture instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2773\" href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/hadron-the-flat-pack-particle-accelerator\/hadron1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2773\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron1-364x500.jpg 364w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comical idea of using a self-assembly furniture guide for one of the most expensive and complicated scientific experiments ever is ludicrously funny, and it works so well as the diagrams and typefaces are spot on; there&#8217;s even a CERN logo in the vein of IKEA&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve never had to assemble any IKEA furniture, but I&#8217;ve heard many tales of frustration from those that have &#8211; the LHC might have turned out very differently if the engineers had followed this guide (I&#8217;m sure the Lindstr\u00f6m Effect might even cite personal experience as inspiration for this Zine).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2776\" href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/hadron-the-flat-pack-particle-accelerator\/hadron2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2776\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron2-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron2-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron2-500x473.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hadron2.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available <a href=\"http:\/\/lindstrombooks.bigcartel.com\/product\/hadron\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analoguebooks.co.uk\/product\/hadron-by-the-lindstrom-effect\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this gem when following an excellent Zines page on Facebook, run by Alex Zamora of Fever Zine. An A5, 15 page, black and white illustrated Zine by the Lindstr\u00f6m Effect collective,\u00a0 &#8220;HADR\u00d6N&#8221; is a mock instruction manual for the Large Hadron Collider, in the style of IKEA furniture instructions. The comical idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[337,24],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-inspiration","tag-zines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}