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This is my Choice of Technoramas…This is the Technorama: Not the Worst Of.

Enjoy, and excuse the poor quality. Happy New Year!

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Woz Gets Questioned by the Secret Service for Using $2 Bills via Digg

I bet handing the Secret Service the fake ID went a long way towards clearing up that mess. Hint for everyone else in that situation: Take note of the Miranda warning.

HOWTO make Green Eggs and Ham via Boing Boing

Sure it looks like food coloring, but how do you really know what they put in that egg?

Direct to video BS:G movie in the works via Digg

If declining ratings don’t improve, Sci-fi / Universal may go the direct to video route because DVD sales are still strong. However, the studios haven’t greenlighted the project yet.

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Battlestar Galactica RPG Announced by Margaret Weiss via Digg

Supposedly, it will borrow a lot of gameplay ideas from the Serenity RPG, which is also published by Margaret Weiss.

Beer-Opening LEGO Bot via Digg

Finally, a constructive use for all that pointless creativity.

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* note from Kreg – I screwed up, and needed to repost this .. sorry if you get this twice.

From our feedback it seems that the Podcast Expo Live show was the one that most of you wanted us to repeat…so here you go. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

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Stormtroopers and Ewoks coming to the 2007 Rose Parade via Digg

Come Jan. 1, you will be part of a 30th-anniversary Star Wars blowout in the streets of Pasadena, California. There’ll be an Ewoks float. There’ll be a planet Naboo float. There’ll be a 175-piece college marching band

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Ladies and gentlemen, we want to hear from you! It’s time to start finding out what you like and what you know. Let’s start out simple…

A full grown Tiger with a litter of baby piglets, say it ain’t so via Digg

It’s not exactly what it sounds like. The tigress lost her kittens and became depressed so the zookeepers introduced a set of piglets wrapped in tiger skin as a surrogate litter. But still, shouldn’t a big cat like that still smell the pigs as food?

Foiled! via Digg

A great office prank and pretty cheap to pull off too.

‘Hibernating’ man survives for 3 weeks via Digg

A man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation, doctors said.

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Forget the Cardboard Box Fort; Plans on making a Whole Cardboard Castle via Digg

This is just the thing to protect you and your imaginary kingdom from the evil cardboard armies. Be careful if you decide to go hard core and install a moat.

Oddly enough, cardboard bridges can be constructed to hold the weight of real people, so it’s not totally ridiculous to scale up the cardboard castle to life size proportions.

Pac-Man hits the road via Reddit

Wocka wocka wocka…gulp. 100 pts.

Silent Star Wars via Digg

Did you ever wonder how Star Wars would be if it was shot in black and white and edited as a silent movie? Me neither, but now you can do more than imagine it.

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Over at digg they started promoting podcasts. Which is a good thing considering the traffic that digg gets and podcasts is one of 4 main choices at the top of the site. So (and a thanks to Rob at Podcast411 for pointing this out) that is sure to give podcasting a lot of exposure. So … if you feel so inclined give Technorama a leg up! You can digg for the Show in General and the individual episodes.
Here is the link to our Digg feed.

Undersea Spies: Turning Sharks into Robotic Sentries via /.

Hey! Where are the laser beams? Is it too much to ask for sharks with fricking laser beams on their foreheads?

Top 5 Strangest Laptop Mods via Digg

Check out the pedal powered laptop. No hand-cranking needed for this puppy. Youtube Link

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage via Digg

… but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible. 6-7 weeks of sobriety = 2% increase in brain volume. Well, if you only use something like 10% anyway, maybe 2% of the unused 90% is significant. Perhaps there is hope for Mennegasia after all.

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