CCT#212: I am Sinistar, Beware..I Live!

On This Show

1. Audio before Edison
2. Tron and Star Wars – SWEEEDE
3. Sinistar meets Dick and Jane

On This Day in Tech History

• 1513 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to do so.
• 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
• 1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
• 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
• 1973 – Launch of LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
• 1975 – CN Tower completed in Toronto Ontario Canada: reaches
  553.33 metres in height, becoming the world’s tallest free-standing
  structure.

Births

• 1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
• 1565 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
• 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
• 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
• 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
• 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
• 1914 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1923 – G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician
• 1934 – Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio personality

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News

• Next Ver of Windows Ketchup flavored?
• Fire Sale! If it is in on the internet, it must be true

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Steampunk your keyboard
• Music recorded BEFORE Edison
• Suspended Animation without freezing!
• Mr. T Brings a kid out of a comma

Remember When

• What will life be like in the year 2008 – John Lambert

Media Corner

• Tron and Star Wars .. uh…swedish fan films
  • and of course The Lord of the Rings!
• Flickr Group of Old Vintage Sci-fi / Science art
• Profile of Al Jaffee – The artist that does the mad Fold-ins

What the Kreg!

• Games that get my Goat

Geek Library

• (Clip: Jeremy’s Top 7 list)
• In case of Glass, break Sith….NO incase of Sith…
• Sinistar meets Dick and Jane
• Untooned Mario and Homer

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