Coming up on this show…
- A Mac 512K that runs OS X
- The Jedi Ginsu, how much would you pay for all this? Don’t answer yet because we also have
- The Batcave home theater
On This Day in Tech History
- 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
- 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train
derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85
people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail
disasters in American history. - 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test
firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. - 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission – Alan Shepard becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
- 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Births
- 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
- 1892 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- 1916 – John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
Follow Up
- Special thanks to Jeremy Oelke for joining as a monthly
financial backer to Technorama! Jeremy is known as Mr. Sim in the chat
room… - Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- Feb 07 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN
- Feb 08 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK
- Feb 08 – Blake Noble in Pittsburgh, PA
- Feb 09 – “Podcast” Mike Wills from Minnesota
- Feb 10 – Shari from ND
- If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
- Listen to the audio stream if you happen to be around.
News
- (Clip: Technorama News – Phase of the moon to be renamed)
- Heroes Happen Here from Microsoft – East Bay Ant
- Go inside the Navy’s Armed Robot Labs – Steve
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Blow your mouse – Bookaroo
- Cranky Benches – Bookaroo
- Mac 512K that runs OS X (sort of) – Bookaroo
- {kreg} I made a mount for my N810
Media Corner
- Steam Trek – the moving picture – Ron
- Psst…Monthy Python meets Star Trek
- Superman vs.
- Jedi Ginsu – Bookaroo
- Batcave home theater – Bookaroo
- Time lapse of building a lego Millenium Flacon – Jorge
- Take a peek inside the new Mac Book Air – Bookaroo
What the Chuck!
- My iMac remote is NOT broken
Geek Library
- (Clip: Comedy 1/2 minute w/ArchAngelSB)
- Top 60 little known tech sites – Bruce (sorry, Technorama didn’t make the list)
- The Mac Book Paper (and a way to print your own – Bookaroo
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