Coming up in this episode…
- A load of news stories
- Two loads of hacks and strange stories
- Lots and lots of media corner stuff
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Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- 04 – Brian K – My Blog
- 04 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)
- 05 – Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf)
- 05 – Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher)
- 05 – Martine Tysmans –citytrips, travelling, jokes… (in Dutch)
- 05 – Ringmaster Greg from Dancing With Elephants
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On This Day In History for March 30, 2011
- It was on this day in 240 BC that we find the 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
- Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long today in 1842.
- Also today in 1858, Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
- The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph on this date in 1939
- It was on the exact same date that saw the first flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
- The first subway in Canada opened today in 1954 – It was the Yonge Street subway line in Toronto.
- Space Shuttle mission STS-3 is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico today in 1982
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- French telegraph engineer Leon Charles Thevenin, born today in 1857
- Sergey Ilyushin, the Russian aerospace engineer was born today in 1894
- Polish mathematician, (YO-sef mar-SINK-uh-vich) Józef Marcinkiewicz, was born 101 years ago.
- The actor who played Gomez Adams and legal father to Sam Gamgee (I mean Sean Astin), actor John Astin, turns 81 today.
- rounding out the birthdays, actor Paul Reiser turns 54.
And finally, in commemoration of Dr. Crawford Long using anesthesia for the first time, March 30 is National Doctor’s Day in the United States.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in History for March 30, 2011
News
- Quantum Computing
- What Yuri Gagarin saw 50 years ago
- Mac OS X turns X
- Nine jobs Robots will steal from people
- So you want to send a message to space, here’s how
- Searching for Godzilla
- Watch how a nuclear chain reaction works
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Screw Driven Vehicles
- Cell phone amplifier from a broken trumpet
- 12 Great reasons to be scared of your phrenologist
- Light saber badminton
- The bottle opener/cap collector
- The Cryosauna helping athletes
- Rejected Kinect games
- Futuristic Toothbrush
- Guy loses leg – opts for cyborg replacement
- Make your own Mario coin block
- The Keyboard Tux – how dapper
- Phone controlled retractable kitchen island
- Atari styled Xbox 360
- The “shoe boat”
- And the shoe car
- Top 15 ways to cook a hot dog
- Man tosses money and nobody takes it
- Eating utensils that sound like dying robots
- Remember the peg-leg cat? Now we have a wheelie tortoise
- Real life transformer (from Encaf1)
- Sign up for Dish Network and get a gun?
Remember When
- An introduction to pulp fiction in Europe before 1914
- Alexander Graham Bell’s sketchbook
- Hazard colored amp has Brit and Yank settings for those trans atlantic sounds
- Disney says the atom is our friend (video pulled off YouTube by Disney – figures)
- X-Ray Machines in 1896 needed 90 minutes and 1500X the radiation
- The Futuristic World of Linoleum as pictured in teh 1930s
- Duke Nukem Forever delayed (from Madmarv)
Media Corner
- 10 Classic Seinfeld episodes that couldn’t have happened with today’s modern technology
- Troopers take you inside the life of a deathstar stormtropper
- Why do our role playing games still need numbers everywhere?
- 10 Things you probably didn’t know about Doctor Who
- Stargate Universe cast and crew pitch their own post-apocalypse series
- Game: Roadkill Revenge
- Worst arcade game ever – tow truck with giant claw
- Three kings of the Kong family meet to do battle
- Futurama Renewed!
- Star Wars Props Up Close and Personal
- Star Wars PSA posters
- Disney didn’t put Rasputin in the Haunted Mansion to avoid being sued
- Didn’t seem to matter for Hellboy!
- Man sues BBC over Davros
- Cold as Hoth shots Star Destroyer
- Win Spock’s Ears from Star Trek – The Motion Picture
What the Chuck!
Geek Library
- Bender Toque (from CntrySigns)
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