Technorama Ep.362: Lottery Losers (again)

Coming up in this episode…

Scientists discover new use for salt
The secrets of the universe, as told by children
Luke demands DNA test from Vader as proof

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Introducing the team…

Shout out to the chat room
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On This Day In History for December 5, 2012

It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Also on that same date in 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
December 5, 1848 in a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa today in 1932
Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle 67 years ago today
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated on this date in 1958 in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
Also on that same date, the Preston bypass, the UK’s first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
The last of the ARPANET Nodes closed today in 1969.

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:

American General George Armstrong Custer born on this date in 1839
Also born today in 1879, American airplane manufacturer Clyde Cessna
Austrian born film director Fritz Lang was born today in 1890
Walt Disney was born 111 years ago
Sharing his birthday with Walt Disney same birthday, German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg
And finally American radio personality Doctor Dre turns 49

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 12, 2012
News

Merry Christmas to me! Man builds bot to send himself random crap from Amazon

Hacks & Strange Stories

Remember When

What the Chuck!

Here’s a Christmas idea: A $14K lego brick!

Geek Library

Ben Vaughn idea: Monthly book review – (2 min per book TOPS)
- Chuck:
  - The Evernote Bible – Brandon Collins and Tyler Collins
  - The Brilliant Disaster – Jim Rasenberger
  - Redshirts – John Scalzi
- Kreg:
Let’s talk Evernote (10 min max)

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