{"id":3485,"date":"2012-03-13T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:16:32","slug":"technorama-ep-337-mmmmm-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2012\/03\/13\/technorama-ep-337-mmmmm-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 337 &#8211; Mmmmm, Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In this episode&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Think it\u2019s cool to be in a Star Wars film? Think again.<\/li>\n<li>The stupid things people put on Facebook<\/li>\n<li>A lot of interesting stuff from yester-year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-Ud\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes from the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7439\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3485-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep337_120314.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep337_120314.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep337_120314.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep337_120314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep337_120314.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><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><em>16 &#8211; Michelle Lopez a.k.a. CntrySigns<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>18 &#8211; Gregory Lemon of Myth Show and Myth Minute<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>19 &#8211; JT Shea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegigcast.com\/\">The Gigcast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightgig.com\/jt\">JT Ukes at 40<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.<\/li>\n<li>Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you\u2019ll see the announcement when we join the hangout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nOn This Day In History for March 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, there 292 remaining in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 1794 that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eli_Whitney\">Eli Whitney<\/a> is granted a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent\">patent<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cotton_gin\">cotton gin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That same date in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1903\">1903<\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hay-Herran_Treaty\">Hay-Herran Treaty<\/a>, granting the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a> the right to build the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama_Canal\">Panama Canal<\/a>, is ratified by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\">United States Senate<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\">Colombian<\/a> Senate would later reject the treaty.<\/li>\n<li>It was also March 14 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1910\">1910<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lakeview_Gusher\">Lakeview Gusher<\/a>, the largest U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil_gusher\">oil well gusher<\/a> near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bakersfield,_California\">Bakersfield, California<\/a>, vented to atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orvan_Hess\">Orvan Hess<\/a> and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penicillin\">penicillin<\/a> today in 1942.<\/li>\n<li>48 years ago today a jury in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas,_Texas\">Dallas, Texas<\/a>, finds <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Ruby\">Jack Ruby<\/a> guilty of killing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Harvey_Oswald\">Lee Harvey Oswald<\/a>, assumed assassin of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\">John F. Kennedy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux_kernel\">Linux kernel<\/a> version 1.0.0 is released today in 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Thagard\">Norman Thagard<\/a> becomes the first American <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronaut\">astronaut<\/a> to ride to space on-board a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russia\">Russian<\/a> launch vehicle on this date in 1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italian astronomer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giovanni_Schiaparelli\">Giovanni Schiaparelli<\/a>, born on this date in 1835<\/li>\n<li>German scientist and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine\">Nobel laureate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Ehrlich\">Paul Ehrlich<\/a>, was also born today in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1854\">1854<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Also born today in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1863\">1863<\/a> \u2013 American railroad engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casey_Jones\">Casey Jones<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A name everyone recognizes, Mr. E=Mc2, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a> was born today in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1879\">1879<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Polish mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waclaw_Sierpinski\">Waclaw Sierpinski<\/a> was born 130 years ago today<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft company, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Heinemann\">Ed Heinemann<\/a> was born on this date in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1908\">1908<\/a><\/li>\n<li>American astronaut and CEO Frank Borman turns 83.<\/li>\n<li>and finally American astronaut, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Cernan\">Eugene Cernan<\/a>, celebrates his 78th birthday today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for March 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2012-03-10\/facebook-bigamy\/53460586\/1\">Woman finds husband\u2019s other wife on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5892104\/owners-of-capsized-italian-cruise-ship-want-to-save-it-with-something-they-saw-on-mythbusters\">Mythbusters may be able to save sunken cruise ship<\/a><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Note: Going to see Mythbusters in Raleigh in a couple of weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/03\/11\/178229\/uss-enterprise-takes-its-final-voyage\">USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5890806\/the-meth-king-who-spent-his-drug-money-on-comic-books\">The meth king who spent his drug money on comic books!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Remember When<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5891183\/in-1939-this-robot-dog-was-killed-while-chasing-a-car-really\">1939 &#8211; Robot Dog gets kills chasing car<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5891839\/the-kalinin-k7-was-king-of-the-propeller-planes\/gallery\/1\">Behold the biggest prop airplane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5891266\/an-ereader-from-1935\">An eReader from 1935<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5890771\/the-very-first-robot-brains-were-made-of-old-alarm-clocks\">The first robot brains were made from alarm clocks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5890709\/the-1935-plan-to-use-rocket-airplanes-to-deliver-us-mail\">Rocket powered mail&#8230;<\/a> Why not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Media Corner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5892130\/read-the-jealous-letter-dr-bunsen-honeydew-wrote-the-mars-rover-team\">Muppet\u2019s Dr. Bunsen Honeydew congratulates Mars Rover Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sliceofscifi.com\/2012\/03\/06\/lloyd-says-phantom-menace-made-life-a-living-hell\/\">It\u2019s not easy being young Anakin Skywalker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/cartoon-culture\/dick-clark-is-selling-his-flintstones-home.html\">Dick Clark is Selling His Flintstones Home | Cartoon Brew<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> End of Show Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be dressing and marching as MIB again in the Dragon*Con Parade! 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