Technorama Ep 337 – Mmmmm, Pi Day!

In this episode…

• Think it’s cool to be in a Star Wars film? Think again.
• The stupid things people put on Facebook
• A lot of interesting stuff from yester-year

Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes from the show.

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Introducing the team…

• Shout out to the chat room
• Happy Birthday to:
• 16 – Michelle Lopez a.k.a. CntrySigns
• 18 – Gregory Lemon of Myth Show and Myth Minute
• 19 – JT Shea of The Gigcast and JT Ukes at 40
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On This Day In History for March 14, 2012

This is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, there 292 remaining in 2012.

• It was on this date in 1794 that Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• That same date in 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
• It was also March 14 1910 that the Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
• Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin today in 1942.
• 48 years ago today a jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released today in 1994.
• Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle on this date in 1995

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:

• Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, born on this date in 1835
• German scientist and Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, was also born today in 1854
• Also born today in 1863 – American railroad engineer Casey Jones
• A name everyone recognizes, Mr. E=Mc2, Albert Einstein was born today in 1879
• Polish mathematician Waclaw Sierpinski was born 130 years ago today
• Aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft company,  Ed Heinemann was born on this date in 1908
• American astronaut and CEO Frank Borman turns 83.
• and finally American astronaut, Eugene Cernan, celebrates his 78th birthday today.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 14, 2012

News

• Woman finds husband’s other wife on Facebook
• Mythbusters may be able to save sunken cruise ship
• Personal Note: Going to see Mythbusters in Raleigh in a couple of weeks
• USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage – Slashdot

Hacks & Strange Stories

• The meth king who spent his drug money on comic books!

Remember When

• 1939 – Robot Dog gets kills chasing car
• Behold the biggest prop airplane
• An eReader from 1935
• The first robot brains were made from alarm clocks
• Rocket powered mail… Why not?

Media Corner

• Muppet’s Dr. Bunsen Honeydew congratulates Mars Rover Team
• It’s not easy being young Anakin Skywalker
• Dick Clark is Selling His Flintstones Home | Cartoon Brew

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