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Show #140: Come on Get Happy

1. iPod docks
2. SpaceBalls News
3. Foxtrot takes on Web 2.0
4. Listener Steve needs some help
5. and the exploding batteries stories don’t end here

Show notes #140

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Rocket Scientists not as smart as originally thought via Digg

The article drew an immediate rebuke from a spokesperson for the American Society of Rocket Scientists, who blasted the study as “state-of-the-art pro-brain surgeon propaganda.”

Triple Sunrise via Digg

Produced by sunlight shining through common atmospheric ice crystals with hexagonal cross-sections, such halos can actually be seen more often than rainbows.

Furniture made from bundles of sharp pencils via Boing Boing

Just the thing to compliment your rusty bed of nails. Would it have killed them to put the eraser side facing out?

Marv

Leo Laporte proposes using the term “netcast” instead of “podcast” via Digg

Seems that Apple’s lawyers have been trying to claim ownership over the word “podcast”. Well, netcast is already trademarked, so that’s obviously a dead end. What we really need is to dilute the term podcast to the point where no one can claim ownership.

Gmail ads get a little too personal via Digg

Check out what Google adsense deems to be appropriate window dressing for an e-mail from your ex.

Incredible Indoor Model Airplane Contest [Video] via Digg

Marv

Banned: The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments via Digg

There’s a .torrent link to get a PDF of the book in the article. But it’s a total rip off, there’s no gunpowder or dynamite recipe in the book, just some elementary How-To’s and experiments that should belong in middle school chemistry.

An Artificial Heart That Doesn’t Beat via Digg

From the comment thread:
/scratches pulse of his list of requirements in a partner

The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test via Digg

60% nerd for me. Can anyone beat that?

Japanese Pen Spinning via Digg

If you have time to pick up yet another useless parlor trick, then you definitely want to learn these.

Orchestral performances of Commodore 64 music via Boing Boing

Marv

How to Destroy the Earth With a Coffee Can via Digg

Well, not really, but it is inspired by the 10 Ways to Destroy the Earth #6. Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation.

World

Lock-Pickin

via Digg

Killer Whale Jumps out of Water; Lands on Kayaker via Digg

Coin through Soda Can illusion via Digg

Damn Interesting: The Seventh Sense via Digg

… ask a neurologist how many senses the human body has, and you might get a surprising answer. Many identify nine or more senses- some listing as many as twenty-one…

It is fairly obvious what happens to a person when a sense fails. Many members of society are missing one or more senses. It is common knowledge that blindness is the absence of sight. Deafness, of hearing. Everyone knows what it’s like to lose taste and smell as well; this loss accompanies every head cold. But what happens when the body loses knowledge of itself is a far stranger occurrence.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. via Del.icio.us

Who says one word repeated eight times can’t make a real sentence?

Researchers Find Underwater Lost World via Digg

Researchers Uncover a Secret of the Black Death via Digg

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have made a significant breakthrough in the field, modifying Y. pestis with a gene found in another commonly known bacterium, effectively rendering it unable to cause plague.

Marv

Are you like me wondering when and where you can watch the new Remastered Star Trek?

I found this on the Star Trek Website today.

Live Long and Prosper Yall…

—
Kreg

Show #139: Transporter Malfunction

1. The hard drive turns 50
2. A word from Clinton over at Comedy4Cast
3. Lots of good stuff in the Geek Library

Show notes #139

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