Coming up in tonights show…

1. Hijackers hijack search results
2. How they dealt with lithium in 1947
3. Hack your Mac classic to something you’ll use every day

On This Day in Tech History

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
• 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S.
  Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of
  gold had been discovered in California.
• 1893 – First appearance of an electric car.
• 1926 – Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin premieres.
• 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
• 1945 – Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the
  UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call
  from Bristol to Edinburgh.
• 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK’s first stretch of
  motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and
  M55 motorways.
• 1989 – TGV Atlantique sets a new railways speed record with 482.4 km/h.

Births

• 1547 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
• 1863 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician (d. 1933)
• 1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
• 1879 – Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
• 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
• 1901 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)
• 1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
• 1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1973 – Luboš Motl, Czech physicist

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News

• Hackers hijack search results – Summer

Hacks & Strange Stories

• The iWipe – Ron
• Brian the Brain – Co-worker Corey
• Motorcycles made from watch parts – Luke
• Scoble has videos of the BugLabs product Very cool hacking device!

Remember When

• Disposal of Lithium in 1947 – Marv
• From Weber:

Go to www.adflip.com. They have some old print ads. You have to subscribe to see all of them, but there are samples. Look under computers. See Bill Gates hawking the Tandy 2000! (”Our engineers were quite impressed with the processing speed of the Tandy 2000’s 80186 microprocessor, too”)

Media Corner

• The New K.I.T.T.

Dell Tablet Videos – From Zhadum

• Video 1
• Video 2
• Video 3

Geek Library

• (Contest: 2 licenses of iDefrag from Coriolis Systems)
• OSX Your Windows – Corey

• The Brick is Back!

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