Technorama Ep416: Karaoke Nep-tunes

Coming up in this episode…

  • Nostradamus
  • Space Smells
  • Windows that never was

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Feedback

  • Note from Ben – Listening to latest episode about the costumed characters in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. There probably wasn’t any con. Those are “professional cosplayers” who work in front of the theater. They are always there, although the characters will change throughout the day, so it’s no surprise that there were so many different characters as reported in that story.
  • Note from Scott – I couldn’t get on the live feed Sunday night. Is it just me?

On This Day In History for November 5, 2014

This is the 309th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining in 2014.

  • It’s Guy Fawkes day – It was on this date in 1605 that Guy Fawkes is arrested as part of the Gunpowder plot.
  • 119 years ago today, George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people on this date in 1937. (clip)
  • November 5, 2007, Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
  • 1 year ago today, India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to…

  • French meteorologist and climatologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort born on this date in 1855
  • Also born on this date in 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic
  • American singer, guitarist, and actor Roy Rogers was born November 5, 1911
  • Indian-English actress and singer Vivien Leigh would have been 101 today. (clip)
  • Singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer Ike Turner was born today 1931
  • You may not know him, but Greek-American computer scientist and academic Michael Dertouzos was born today in 1936
  • Star Trek Voyager’s Quark, actor Armin Shimerman is 65 today.
  • Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor Bryan Adams is 55
  • Astronaut Alan G. Poindexter would have turned 53 today.
  • and finally computer scientist Marcus J. Ranum is 54.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 5, 2014

News

Listener Birthday Calendar

  • Nov 05 – Michael Corlett (from New Zealand)
  • Nov 08 – Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE, host of The Weird Show
  • Nov 08 – OnTheDrift
  • Nov 10 – John Noble from the Island
  • If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

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