{"id":3312,"date":"2011-11-22T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2011-11-30T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:00:43","slug":"technorama-ep-325-moister-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2011\/11\/22\/technorama-ep-325-moister-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 325 &#8211; Moister Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Coming up in this episode&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farming Robots<\/li>\n<li>More video games becoming movies?<\/li>\n<li>and Thomas \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thecommandline.net\">The Command line<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0Gideon is here to talk about the EU Hackathon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-Rq\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes from the show.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Introducing the team&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shout out to the chat room<\/li>\n<li>Happy Birthday to:<\/li>\n<li>22 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wunderphul.blogspot.com\/\">Tom Posz<\/a> &#8211; (from California, USA)<\/li>\n<li>25 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingalert.com\/\">Lane Williams<\/a><\/li>\n<li>26 &#8211; Joanie<\/li>\n<li>27 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholelotofnonsense.org\/\">Brad P. from NJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to the audio stream if you happen to be around. If you cannot make it, you can find us on ustream.tv. Search for Technorama.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On This Day In History for November 23rd, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1889\">1889<\/a> \u2013 The first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jukebox\">jukebox<\/a> goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\">San Francisco<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1936\">1936<\/a> \u2013 The first edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_magazine\">Life<\/a> is published.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1955\">1955<\/a> \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocos_Islands\">Cocos Islands<\/a> are transferred from the control of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1963\">1963<\/a> \u2013 The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Who\">Doctor Who<\/a> (starring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Hartnell\">William Hartnell<\/a>) which is the world&#8217;s longest running science fiction drama.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1976\">1976<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apneist\">Apneist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Mayol\">Jacques Mayol<\/a> is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990\">1990<\/a> \u2013 The first all woman expedition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Pole\">South Pole<\/a> (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctica\">Antarctica<\/a> on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2001\">2001<\/a> \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convention_on_Cybercrime\">Convention on Cybercrime<\/a> is signed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Budapest\">Budapest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hungary\">Hungary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1553\">1553<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prospero_Alpini\">Prospero Alpini<\/a>, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1616\">1616<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wallis\">John Wallis<\/a>, English mathematician (d. 1703)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1715\">1715<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Charles_Le_Monnier\">Pierre Charles Le Monnier<\/a>, French astronomer (d. 1799)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1869\">1869<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valdemar_Poulsen\">Valdemar Poulsen<\/a>, Danish engineer (d. 1942)<\/li>\n<li>1887 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Moseley\">Henry Moseley<\/a>, English physicist (d. 1915)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for (date)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suicidebots.com\/2011\/11\/14\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-farming-robots\/http:\/\/www.suicidebots.com\/2011\/11\/14\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-farming-robots\/\">Farming Robots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocpages.com\/moc.php\/293188\">Escape from Docking Bay 327: A LEGO\u00ae creation by Dave aka F2 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Media Corner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/lost-mark-hamill-video-interview\/\">SF Signal: Lost Mark Hamill Video Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/52015\">RAMAGE video game to become a movie??<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/exhibitionist\/2011\/11\/ascii_star_wars_vintage_comput.php?page=1\">ASCII Star Wars Portraits &amp; Other Weirdness From BASIC-Era Computer Magazines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Bill Klumpp from G+ says<\/em>, \u201cI used to have this specific issue. Unfortunately, it and the old copies of Computer Shopper from the &#8217;80&#8217;s (some of which were up to 800 pages +) were destroyed when the roof sprung a leak at the parents house in Florida because the apartment where the ex and I were living in at the time didn&#8217;t have room for me to store them. A lot of those old computer magazines were fun reads, especially when they tried to compare all the old computers you could buy or build from companies such as Commodore, Radio Shack, Texas Instruments, Sega, ActiVision, and other computer makers who have faded into the sands of time, along with the parts for building your own IBM PC-XT and AT.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Thomas Gideon on his Trip to Brussels<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can find Thomas at his website <a href=\"http:\/\/thecommandline.net\">The Commandline.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>End of Show Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We appreciate your support. 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