Wow…I saw this and my immediate reaction was, “They still sell the cassette Walkman?”. Apparently they do/did.
After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April, according to IT Media. Once these units are sold, new cassette Walkmans will no longer be available through the manufacturer
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Found this on the Flickr Blog.
Help record this once-in-a-century day by uploading a photo or video of the day to Flickr and tag it “101010”.
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From Costco no less. I don’t know if Costco’s calendar is 6 months out of whack, but I don’t think this is an April Fools joke. One year’s worth of food in a shipping crate for $800. And it’s not the good stuff either, it comes in cans with labels like “textured vegetable protein” to disguise the fake meat. Nom, nom, hurl.
For an upcoming show we have a passage from something, could be a computer manual or something from Wikipedia, and we have removed select words from it. Your, mission should you accept it, is to provide us with replacement words to pop in.
To participate, all you have to do is email us at technorama at chuckchat.com and reference “Technorama Mad-libs #1” in the subject and put your words in the email. We will read this Technorama Mad-libs on the show next week (10/10/10).
What we need for this one:
3 verbs, 4 nouns, and 1 adjective.
Ah, it’s the Ig Nobel awards season again. It’s like Christmas in a geeky way. They give presents to people for the most bizarre research and inventions of each year. The Ig Nobel awards bestow a kind of recognition that raises the laureates above their peers, but not in the conventional way.
The winners of the 2010 Ig Nobel prizes were announced yesterday. Notable winners include:
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Undead Brad (Grant Baciocco – Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd) explains to us the misconceptions of Zombies and how they could use Godaddy to help out their business.
This is for a contest that Godaddy is running, looking for fan produced commercials. If you like this one, head on over to the Godaddy site and vote for it! Sorry, you’ll have to find it to vote for it, its called “IRIS”…but do so knowing you are helping out Undead Brad!
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Tonight’s show is very free form, just Chuck and I talking….no structure what so ever. 🙂
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