{"id":240,"date":"2006-08-29T03:25:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T08:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=240"},"modified":"2006-08-29T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T08:25:28","slug":"yoda-backpack-dr-who-serenity-wins-hugo-awards-and-star-trek-thesis-wins-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/08\/29\/yoda-backpack-dr-who-serenity-wins-hugo-awards-and-star-trek-thesis-wins-academic-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoda Backpack, Dr. Who &amp; Serenity wins Hugo Awards, and Star Trek Thesis wins Academic Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/geektoys\/cubegoodies\/817c\/\">Yoda backpack<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><i>Buy this, you must<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-seamonster26aug26,0,1753607,full.story\">Blue Demons of the Deep: The Rare Oarfish<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xyzrgb.com\/holos\/terminator.html\">Video: Full Color Holographic &#8216;Terminator II; Cyborg Poster<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/\">Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfwa.org\/news\/2006\/06hugowinners.htm\">Doctor Who, Serenity Win 2006 Hugo Awards<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/news\/stories_read\/673\">Beer: The Midwife of Civilization<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sP-aKSiPibo\"> How the Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>Oh come on, where&#8217;s the fun in doing things the easy way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neave.com\/strobe\/\">Cool Optical Illusion Makes You Hallucinate<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>Does this remind anyone of LSD?  Not that I would know or anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ransom.redjar.org\/\">Free the USGS Maps<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/06\/08\/28\/2058216.shtml\">Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize<\/a> via \/.<\/p>\n<p>700 episodes, 624 hours and 90k words later and Dr. Djoymi Baker earned a coveted chancellor&#8217;s prize for excellence at Melbourne University.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t there a running joke about majoring in TV reruns?<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoda backpack via Digg Buy this, you must Blue Demons of the Deep: The Rare Oarfish via Digg Video: Full Color Holographic &#8216;Terminator II; Cyborg Poster via Digg Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod via Digg Doctor Who, Serenity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/08\/29\/yoda-backpack-dr-who-serenity-wins-hugo-awards-and-star-trek-thesis-wins-academic-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}