On This Show
- Of monkeys and robots
- Microsoft will get to your ticket – eventually
- Why the FBI had to stop wire taps
On This Day in Tech History
- 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi
earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been
as high as 830,000. - 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
- 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
- 1789 – Georgetown College becomes the first Roman Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
- 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical
Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female
doctor. - 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in
what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father
Louis Hennepin Bridge. - 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet)in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
- 1978 – Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth’s ozone layer.
- 1996 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
Births
- 1719 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
- 1745 – William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
- 1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
- 1857 – Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
- 1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
- 1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
- 1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
- 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- 1943 – Gil Gerard, American actor
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Follow Up
- What happens when Dad loads an “Classic” game on the Wii
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
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- 25 – Kreg Steppe
- 26 – Will The Computer Guy
- 27 – Mark in Memphis
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News
- (Clip: Technorama News 911 Help)
- Congratulations to listener Jorge on passing his first semester of Cisco training.
- Monkey Think, Robot Do
- Phone Company Cuts Off FBI Wiretap For Unpaid Bill – CntrySigns
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Microsoft follows up on a trouble ticket 10 years later!
- Real Bender close!
- Google maps from Home to Work – Jorge
- The Disintegrator – East Bay Ant
Media Corner
- 2 minute comments on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
- Throwing room temp water in to -20F – Ken Pace
- Throwing boiling water in to -20F
What the Kreg!
- (Clip: Kreg goes to the polls)
Geek Library
- WiFi Spy Robot – Ron
- Stan Lee Tribute artwork
- Windows Command Line Reference – Bruce
- 75 words every geek should know – Ron
- Just learned that example.com, example.net, and example.org are reserved for documentation per RFC 2606.
- The Air Car
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