On This Show
- Robots in space
- Great sci-fi authors in space
- Coffee printer
On This Day in Tech History
- 1484 – William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
- 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.
- 1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1934 – Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1953 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
- 1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
- 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
- 1976 – Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
- 1999 – The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
Births
- 1753 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
- 1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838)
- 1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
- 1875 – Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
- 1911 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist (86)
- 1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director (77)
- 1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate (70)
- 1940 – James Caan, American actor (68)
- 1941 – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist (67)
- 1965 – Chuck Tomasi
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News
- Astronaughts install Robot on IIS it’s first bit of feedback was it promptly started asking for Sarah Conner
- Australian Heritage Computers Facing Scrap Heap – Douglas
- Arthur C. Clark has passed away at the age of 90
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Interesting uses for the Wiimote – Thom
- The Aptera – Looks like something from Logan’s Run
- A coffee printer! – Tonya
- Science Tatoos – EastBayAnt
Remember When
- Remembering the BBC Micro 1 – Lingo
Media Corner
- More XP and Vista sounds to make music – Jeremy
- Windows XP Rhapsody – Jeremy
- Chill out with the XP install music in C:WINDOWSsystem32oobeimagestitle.wma
What the Chuck!
- Quick Note that Mozilla Thunderbird has a feature to restore natural order
Geek Library
- The coolest gifts – Dee Dee
- Star Wars “Shaggin'” Wagon on eBay
- African Scrap metal Toys
- 20th Anniversary version of Hitchhikers Infocom game on the BBC site
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