Coming up on this show…

1. How to build a supercomputer on a budget
2. How to build your own underwater ROV for even less
3. We take a look back at one of the great electronic games of the 70s

On This Day in Tech History

* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
* 1906 – Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
* 1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
* 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
* 1940 – Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
* 1959 – Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
* 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
* 1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
* 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
* 2005 – A blackout in Los Angeles affects millions of Californians.

Births

* 1575 – Henry Hudson, English explorer
* 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
* 1818 – Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903)
* 1897 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
* 1940 – Linda Gray, American actress

Follow Up

* Martha in our Dr. Who intro was played by Máia Whitaker from KnitWitch’s Scifi/Fantasy Zone
* What have you been up to?
o Chuck:
+ Finished the Harry Potter book
+ Put my new website (no podcast) in to beta
+ Spending time with the family
+ Podcasting stuff: Dr. Ballard interview, and lining up more great stuff for the upcoming months
+ School is back in – Julie: “You can always tell the freshmen…”
+ All caught up with “The IT Crowd”
* Shout out to the chat room

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News

* The Mare Nostrum – Dr. Phil

Hacks & Strange Stories

* Hidden flight simulator in Google Earth – Missing Intellect
* Student and prof build budget supercomputer – Greg Hawley
* Controlling a tube of fire with sound – Will The Computer Guy
* Build your own Underwater ROV! for $250!
* More Steam Punkery Stormtrooper and Boba Fett

Remember When

* Merlin the Electronic Wizard
o Handheld Museum

Media Corner

* Backstroke of the West – Missing Intellect
* R2D2 Projector
* Makezine Made it onto the IT Crowd

What the Kreg!

* Review of Ultimate WRT54G hacking

Geek Library

* (Clip: Geek Humor – Empty House)
* Star Trek inspirational Posters
* Watch Tokyo: 35 years of progress in 10 seconds

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