On Today’s Show!

1. Apple’s First attempt at the iPhone
2. NASA extends the rover project (again)
3. What happens if you steal from a Technorama fan

Friends in Tech Halloween Special – It’s the Great Server Chuck and Kreg!

On This Day in Tech History

• 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 1957 – the USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
• 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
• 1995 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and SE Asia.
• 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
• 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.

Births

• 1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
• 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
• 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
• 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian scientist (77)
• 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
• 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer

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News

• ‘Mythbusters’ test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust
• BEST BUY stops selling analog TVs
• NASA extends Rover project for a 5th time
• Skies To Be Swept For Alien Life
• Taking advantage of a Technorama listener could be hazardous to your political career

• Mona “The Hammer” Shaw takes it out on Comcast

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Couch crafted from Macintosh II computers – Claudio
• Make your own talking magic mirror – Douglas
• The Water Hobo (keep kids off your lawn) – Will

Remember When

• Apple’s patent for the iPhone – in 1985! – Lingo

Media Corner

• New Star Trek news
  • Chris Pine is Kirk
  • Karl Urban is Bones
  • Zachary Quinto is Spock
  • Simon Pegg is Scotty
  • Eric Bana is NERO (The Bad Guy)
  • John Cho is Sulu
  • Anton Yelchin is Checkov
• Krishna at PC Weenies celebrates 9 years of Cartooning. Head over and give him some love.
• What every geek wants for a case mod – Mark Sheppard
• Darth Vader’s Hidden Talent – Ryan

What the Kreg!

• Help Stop Evaporation!
  

Geek Library

• Wifi Status Shirt – Ron
• 10 Ugliest Tech Items – Brian
• Hide-a-pod

The 1337 Eye-Chart – Victor

Star Trek Urns

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