Technorama

Show #137: Washed out to sea

# One last visit to EAA to see the Honda Jet
# Listener Michelle Cook sends in a product review
# Some talk about space

Show notes #137

Podcast: Download

177 versions of Pac-Man via Digg

Get your quarters ready…

99 wolves crashing into a wall via Digg

Business card airplane via Digg

Site hosted on 23 year old Lisa 2 computers via Digg

So do we call this Web -2.0 or what?

Images of the Earth from space via Digg

Tic-Tac-Toe playing robot via /.

And, it’s called the WOPR. How do you make this thing play itself again?

Marv

C64 USB keyboard via Digg

Pickle Light Source via Digg

Important safety tip when working with pickle light bulbs:

Notice, “Plug in…” comes LAST!

Action Comics #1 now online via Digg

BSG Webisodes to start 9/5 via Digg

BSG Very Hi-Res Season 3 Promo Gallery via Digg

Scientists watch supernova in real-time via Digg

Marv

If you get this, you’re a geek via Digg

Ok Kreg, you’ve gotta do better than this guy.

Top 11 Things to Do if Your Laptop Battery Explodes via Digg

#10. Duck and cover.

Femtroopers: Female stormtroopers (w/ pics) via Digg

And more Femtrooper pics

kevin spacey is really, really good at impressions via Digg

How to make a taser from a camera via Digg

Paddlestar Galactica via Boing Boing

Kids at camp spoof BSG.

The Simpsons vs Star Trek via Boing Boing

The Simpsons theme meets capitan Kirk. Performed with Rhodes piano, Theremin and funnel.

The Shovelglove via Freakonomics blog

The next generation of DIY exercise equipment. Yeah it’s ridiculous, but at it’s most basic level exercise is just a matter of moving dead weight.

Marv

Show #136: Unplugged

Tonight is a special show…listen up for the special announcement.

Show notes #136

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Google to allow free downloads of books vid Digg

Public domain and out-of-copywrite works only.

Miles per Dollar Calculator via Digg

It also computes cost per trip based on your mileage and distance.

Genius Junk Food – 6 formerly forbidden snacks that are actually good for you via Digg

Oh yeah, just what I’ve been waiting to hear. Chocolate dipped pork rinds with a Stone Double Bastard is just the ticket. I can practically hear Mike and Evo chomping on the podcast now.

Funniest Stargate SG1 Prank via Digg

Help, I’m stuck on a glacier with McGuyver!

And I spotted this in the sidebar:

Stargate featuring the MacGyver Theme

Heinlein’s Last Novel Coming in September via /.

A fifty year old outline developed into a full novel by Spider Robinson.

Marv

Yoda backpack via Digg

Buy this, you must

Blue Demons of the Deep: The Rare Oarfish via Digg

Video: Full Color Holographic ‘Terminator II; Cyborg Poster via Digg

Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod via Digg

Doctor Who, Serenity Win 2006 Hugo Awards via Digg

Beer: The Midwife of Civilization via Digg

How the Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended via Digg

Oh come on, where’s the fun in doing things the easy way.

Cool Optical Illusion Makes You Hallucinate via Digg

Does this remind anyone of LSD? Not that I would know or anything.

Free the USGS Maps via Boing Boing

The quad maps will be available for download from archive.org just as soon as he can upload 300 GB. Hope his cable modem is up to it.

Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize via /.

700 episodes, 624 hours and 90k words later and Dr. Djoymi Baker earned a coveted chancellor’s prize for excellence at Melbourne University.

Wasn’t there a running joke about majoring in TV reruns?

Marv

Show #135: iTunes Error

1. A new rapper
2. wannabe Superheros
3. several corrections from the last show (again)

Show notes #135

Podcast: Download

When a Hummer won’t do via Digg

Megatron Revealed! 1st shots of Decepticon leader from Transformers Movie via Digg

Redneck Rocket Launcher via Digg

Still, it is a cool DIY project…just set it up at your friends’ house.

A million thanks! via Digg

Do you owe someone a million thank yous? Well, here’s your chance to catch up.

Marv

Giant Swiss Army Knife offers 85 tools via Digg

For only $1200, how can you live without it? Ok, so it’s missing a USB drive but it’s got a laser pointer.

Magic Sand – It’s hydrophobic

It hates water so much it forms into clumps when immersed in water, and it remains dry even while “under” water. This has got to be the perfect kitty litter material.

Kangaroos put on birth control pills via Digg

Spider-man 4 confirmed via Digg

Original S.S. Minnow for sale? via Boing Boing

Could be the real deal. This reminds me of a secretary at my old job. She bought the Lincoln (I think that was the model) driven by Jack Lord in Hawaii Five-O.

Marv