CCT#206: Poultry Fencing

In This Show!

1. Star Trek Communicator
2. Head tracking on the Wiii
3. A way to kick start your sci-fi story

On This Day in Tech History

• 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
• 1931 – California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture
  supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker
  government amid much political debate.
• 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John
  Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the
  first American to orbit the earth.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful
  mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program
  astronauts.

Births

• 1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
• 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
• 1937 – Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1960 – Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
• 1971 – Shawn McKenzie, American programmer

Follow Up

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  • 25 – Norbert
  • 25 – Sandi Sheppard (Mark’s lovely wife)
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News

• In honor of Robert Goddard
• Listener Dwight writes in with a scanned image from his
  newspaper insert (or fryers as he calls them) with an ad that Staples
  is offering a free DOWNGRADE from Vista to XP.
• Scientist develop laser of almost Death Star Magnatude! Large battle station to follow…er ah, moon.

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Star Trek Communicator replica – Lingo
• Head tracking on the Wii – Bookaroo
• Tetris on an oscilloscope – East Bay Ant
• Larry from Paul Dot Com (.com) made it on hack-a-day with his Shmooball gun

Media Corner

• I bought Blue Harvest!
• The Humans are dead – Julio
• Star Wars Rejects – Bookaroo

What the Kreg!

• I used my GPS for the first time as the only way to get from here to there.

Geek Library

• They Fight Crime – Bruce Barr

End of Show Stuff

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