Technorama

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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8-year-old teaches grown-ups how to play Halo for $25/hour via Digg

Isn’t there some kind a of labor law that covers this?

World’s First Bionic Woman – move over Lindsay Wagner via Digg

The Princess and Professor. The CPU switch. via Digg

Norwegian reality show challenges an “ordinary” girl to swap out the CPU on a computer.

(Relatively) Safe Fireballs in your Living Room via Digg

Using ordinary candle wax and water. Of course, you shouldn’t really try this at home.

Backstory: The mismatched ‘Mythbusters’ via /.

JK Rowling vs the TSA via Boing Boing

Due to additional carry-on restrictions, the TSA would not allow JK Rowling to carry the manuscript for the final Harry Potter book onto her flight…

“A large part of it is handwritten, and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S.”

Does anyone else see a little backup crisis just waiting to happen?

Marv

One small step for robots — jumping via Digg

How to throw a screwdriver like a Ninja via Digg

It just takes practice… yeah, right

Fly a Remote Control plane that doesn’t suck for $30 bucks via Digg

Manual calculation with a slide rule via Digg

My school bus wasn’t quite like this… via Digg

This one does wheelies.

This idiot fell asleep while playing halo. via Digg

And snores like a whale farting.

Racecars made out of erasers via Boing Boing

Homemade PONG watch! via Boing Boing

First the Pong clock, now the mobile edition.

Show: The Show after the Show

This is the after thoughts of Chuck and I as we post the Shownotes and Show on Sunday Nights.

If you want to catch this in real time, come on over on Sunday nights and join the chat room, and the audio stream as we record!

No Show Notes

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Ninja bank robber finally runs out of moves via Digg

How Episode IV should have ended via Digg

However, rather than transmitting the technical readouts of the imperial battle station and keeping the location of our rebel base safe…In short we have one chance to get this right, and its all Princess Leia’s fault.

Authentic Stormtrooper Suits – $2400 via Digg

WHAT?? Blaster not included!?!

The New Knight Rider KITT? via Digg

10 Ultra Years: Happy Birthday, Nintendo 64! via Digg

20 Oddest Jobs via nowpublic.com

Lots of lame occupations: Egg Inspector, Potato Chip Inspector, Dog Food Taster…but only one interesting job

9. Foley Artist
What they do: Use random items and whatever else they can find to create and record the noises used to make the sounds effects in films, such as heavy footsteps, rolling thunder or creaking doors.

Marv

Nintendo Controller Alarm Clock via Digg

Alarms are sound effects from Super Mario Bros. and has a mini-game built in. Well the mini-game looks lame, but it’s still perfect for playing SMB in your sleep.

Anti-riddle – New Hardest Riddle on the Web on the Rise via Digg

Amazing UFO clouds via /.

Inside Steve Wozniak’s House via Digg

For Sale By Owner – The Ultimate Secure Home via Digg

ULTIMATE Lego Rubberband Chaingun via Digg

And the video showing it shooting 11 rounds per second.

Galileo

Show #138: Reappearance

# Tons of listener feedback
# Kreg’s report on the launch of Atlantis – the way he saw it
# Some telephony telepathy

Show notes #138

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