Coming up on this show…
- A Star Trek Blue Ray Phaser
- Pathetic Post Star Wars Careers
- Monopoly has been updated
On This Day in Tech History
- 1889 – Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in
less than 80 days. She completed the trip in seventy-two days. - 1910 – Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first
take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift
deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. - 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
- 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
- 2000 – Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
- 2003 – Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
Births
- 1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- 1797 – Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
- 1863 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
- 1930 – Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
- 1943 – Peter Norton, American software engineer
Follow Up
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News
- How much are you willing to pay for electricity – From Tom
- Biggest BSOD of all time! – Lingo
Hacks & Strange Stories
Remember When
Media Corner
- Post Star Wars careers almost as pathetic as Mark Hamill’s – Shadowbird
- Top 10 Star Wars Rip off Posters
- They have cast Capt Pike for next Star Trek
What the Chuck!
- Monopoly has been updated! It’s all Sarbanes-Oxley’s fault!
What the Kreg!
- Writing Update
Geek Library
- Coffee mug – Scott
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