Coming up in this episode…
- Stay at the Hotel Death Ray
- Some really cool cold war stuff from Russia with love
- The worlds fastest lawnmower
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Introducing the team…
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Feedback
- Marv – Star Trek
- Will the Computer Guy – SGU
News
- Curvature of hotel causes death-ray
- Astronomers find Earth-like planet and coincidentally, they just found us
- Scientest say that time could end before the Earth does
Hacks & Strange Stories
Remember When
- From PC Haring – the Russian Space Shuttle is found on a trash heap
- Retro Russian Underwater Camera Housing
- Vintage ads show cigarette smoking is bad for your mental health
Media Corner
- Chuck’s Home Theater is alive! – 65″ of flat panel love and speakers nearly 60″ tall to blow the windows out.
Geek Library
Technorama Mad-libs
For an upcoming show we have a passage from something, could be a computer manual or something from Wikipedia, and we have removed select words from it. Your, mission should you accept it, is to provide us with replacement words to pop in.
To participate, all you have to do is email us at technorama at chuckchat.com and reference “Technorama Mad-libs #1” in the subject and put your words in the email. We will read this Technorama Mad-libs on the show next week (10/10/10).
What we need for this one:
3 verbs, 4 nouns, and 1 adjective.
End of Show Stuff
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