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Coming up in this episode... * Batkid * Frozen Eggs * and Red Velvet Cake Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-15m) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XBFmLfjh0 Feedback * From Tom in CA Hey, I am "a listener", just unfortunately a deferred time listener (read "podcast listener")    but loving the show Thanks for the "free beer" and thanks for the birthday wishes. Any snow yet? Tom in CA On This Day In History for November 20, 2013 This is the 324th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1820 that an 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story). * Also today in 1962, the Cuban missile crisis ends. In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. * Today in 1969 – Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971. * Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released 28 years ago today. * The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched on this date in 1998. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * German physicist Otto von Guericke born on this date in 1602 * Also born on this date in 1841 Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt * The astronomer who observed that all galaxies are moving away from us and gave us to the big bang theory, astronomer Edwin Hubble was born today in 1889. * Happy birthday to Dutch mathematician, Willem Jacob van Stockum, born 113 years ago * The man for whom the Mandelbrot set is named after, Benoît Mandelbrot, was born today in 1924. * And finally actress and producer Bo Derek turns 57. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 20, 2013 News * BatKid saves San Francisco and our collective souls (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/make-a-wish-batkid-is-saving-san-francisco-right-now-1465300198) * SF Chronicle had a special page for him (http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/11/15/chronicle-will-print-special-editions-for-batkid-flashmob/) Listener Birthday Calendar * 25 -Lane Williams (http://www.missingalert.com/) * 26 - Joanie * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Hacks & Strange Stories * NES Cartridge Flasks Make Video Games Your Least Problematic Addiction (http://gizmodo.com/nes-cartridge-flasks-make-video-games-your-least-proble-1465268467) * Guy makes Game of Thrones' Iron Throne with cheap plastic chair (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/guy-made-the-iron-throne-from-game-of-thrones-with-a-pl-1465625082/@caseychan) * You Probably Shouldn't Eat This Creepy, Cryogenically "Cooked" Egg (http://brentrose.kinja.com/cryogenic-fluid-vs-egg-1465895284/1465949909/@robertsorokanich) Remember When * Why red velvet cake was originally red (and why it can't be anymore) (http://io9.com/why-red-velvet-cake-was-originally-red-and-why-it-can-1464992225) Media Corner * If Brand Slogans Were Brutally Honest (http://gizmodo.com/youll-appreciate-the-brutal-honesty-in-these-updated-b-1461759716) Geek Library * Saw Ender’s Game * Chuck (the show) is on Netflix now * Surprise from a friend * Stabilized Footage of the JFK Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real (http://gizmodo.com/stabilized-footage-of-the-jfk-assassination-is-unsettli-1465136863) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi), @Steppek (http://twitter.com/steppek), and

Coming up in this episode... * The Death Star * Stan Lee * and Thor Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-15b) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OcC3kVI7I On This Day In History for November 13, 2013 This is the 13th of November, it is the 317th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1841 that James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. * That same date in 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. * The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles today in 1947. * 28 years ago today, the volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. * Happy birthday goes out on this date to German-American mathematician Max Dehn, born on this date in 1878. * Also born today in 1893, American biochemist, and Nobel Prize laureate Edward Adelbert Doisy. * The man who brought us TV shows like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and more, actor, director, and producer Garry Marshall turns 79. * Physicist Stephen Paul was born on this date in 1953 * Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy turns 59. * Just one year younger is actress Whoopi Goldberg. * And finally comedian, actor, and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 46 today. * It also happens to be world kindness day today, so keep that in mind as you drive to work! And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 13, 2013 Hacks & Strange Stories * Humans created gunpowder in search of immortality (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/humans-created-gunpowder-in-search-of-immortality-1459243734/@caseychan) Shout out to the chat room 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Media Corner * Charmin's Thor-themed ad reminds us their toilet paper is Asgardian (http://io9.com/charmins-thor-themed-ad-reminds-us-their-toilet-paper-1461434599) * 8 Things Marvel Got Wrong About Thor and Norse Mythology (http://io9.com/8-things-marvel-got-wrong-about-thor-and-norse-mytholog-1458989921) * Comic book God Stan Lee explains his beef with Superman (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/comic-book-god-stan-lee-explains-his-beef-with-superman-1459198367/@caseychan)  Catch up * Kreg - Saw Thor this weekend! Geek Library * Death Star Owner's Manual will help you get it Fully Operational (http://io9.com/death-star-owners-manual-will-help-you-get-it-fully-op-1458070051) * That's More Like It: Fan Remakes Phantom Menace Scene So Jar Jar Dies At The Beginning (http://geekologie.com/2013/11/thats-more-like-it-fan-remakes-scene-so.php) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi), @Steppek (http://twitter.com/steppek), and @technorama (http://twitter.com/technorama) * on Facebook at the Technorama Page (https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast) * And even Google Plus (https://plus.google.com/u/0/114344045273696987673/posts) * Links are in these show notes and on our website * www.chuckchat.com (http://www.chuckchat.com/) * How about a donation to the tip jar: one time or monthly micropayment. * Or a review on the iTunes music store. Also Thanks to * Mad Marv for providing the great blog content * Everyone who sent us links during the week

Coming up in this episode... * Cyborgs * Physics * ...and Thomas Kinkade Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLZx4lpmKI&feature=share On This Day In History for November 6, 2013 This is November 6 it is the 310th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1528 that shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas. * It was on that same date in 1865 that the CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. * Also today in 1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. * First flight of the Hawker Hurricane was on this date in 1935. * Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie on that same date in 1935. * Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. What year was that? I'll tell you - 1944 * and 42 years ago today, the United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Actress Sally Field who turns 67. * Born on the same date two years later, singer-songwriter, guitarist for the Eagles, and actor Glenn Frey * Turning 58 today, journalist and wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger - Maria Shriver * and finally, celebrating his 55th birthday today, the man who played Doctor Clayton Forrester and voiced Crow T. Robot on MST3K, Trace (BO-lee-oh) Beaulieu And for what it’s worth - Saturday November 9th is Carl Sagan’s birthday - so wear a turtleneck sweater or something. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 6, 2013 News * Captain Kirk to command a Navy Destroyer (http://news.yahoo.com/captain-kirk-navy-destroyer-135551630.html) - from listener John Listener Birthday Calendar * November * 08 - Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE, host of The Weird Show * 08 - OnTheDrift * 10 - John Noble from the Island * 13 - Pippa (London UK) * 13 - Jennifer Therrien (Canada) If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Hacks & Strange Stories * FULL Size Millennium Falcon WIP by Greg Dietrich for Chris Lee (http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=54211) * Taste The Rainbow: A Life-Size Unicorn Cake | Geekologie (http://geekologie.com/2013/10/taste-the-rainbow-a-life-size-unicorn-ca.php) * Crazy Man Puts Computer Inside Arm (Without Help From Doctors) (http://kotaku.com/crazy-man-puts-computer-inside-arm-without-help-from-d-1456512744/@jcondliffe) Don't Forget...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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * 8 Unfortunate Vintage Candy Wrappers (http://gizmodo.com/8-unfortunate-vintage-candy-wrappers-1455662664) * How physics ended the night time radio war between the US and Mexico (http://io9.com/how-physics-ended-the-nighttime-radio-war-between-the-u-1455191471) Media Corner * Thomas Kinkade Paintings Get Upgraded With Star Wars | Geekologie (http://geekologie.com/2013/10/thomas-kincade-paintings-get-upgraded-wi.php) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi),

Coming up in this episode... * Zombies v. the Animal Kingdom * Levitating Vehicles * and the economics of interstellar flight Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1EwsXNlwa0 On This Day In History for October 30, 2013 This is October 30, 2013 is the 303rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1929 That the Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. * that same date in 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States. * Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code today in 1942. * Also today in 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. * The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed today in 1973, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. * and today in 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. * 26 years ago today in Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Czech chess player Oldřich Duras, born on this date in 1882 * Also born today in 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens lodge * American microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Nathans was born today in 1928 * and finally astronaut Robert L. Gibson turns 67 today. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 30, 2013 Listener Birthday Calendar * October * 30 - WolfGeek (Indiana) * November * 01 - Amber Elstad * 03 - Ken Pace * 03 - Craig Glassner (aka Ranger Craig) * 04 - Avner (from Tel Aviv) * 05 - Michael Corlett (from New Zealand) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Hacks & Strange Stories * Animals would stop the zombie apocalypse before it started (http://io9.com/animals-would-stop-the-zombie-apocalypse-before-it-star-1449284637) * True Story of the Day: An Unpiloted F-106 Landed Itself in 1970 - Cheezburger (http://cheezburger.com/55550465) Shout out to the chat room 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * Time Machines: A PC pioneer (http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/20/time-machines-a-pc-pioneer/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000601) * 31 Levitating Vehicles From the Dawn of the Hovercraft (http://gizmodo.com/31-levitating-vehicles-from-the-dawn-of-the-hovercraft-1445726421) Media Corner * The economics of interstellar flight: Starship enterprises | The Economist (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21588350-dismal-scientists-also-speculating-about-space-flight-starship-enterprises) * The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary show : Day of the Doctor is coming to theaters Geek Library * Microcomputer Software Lives Again, This Time in Your Browser | Internet Archive Blogs (http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/microcomputer-software-lives-again-this-time-in-your-browser/) What are you watching? * Kreg: Comic Book Men, The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. * Chuck: Arrow, The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Bones, Haven, Sleepy Hollow, and Band of Brothers End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show,

Coming up in this episode... * Vatican Hijinx * Weight loss for computers * Promises the 80’s made us Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-14X) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOitkhWtYI Feedback * Avner - Yes * Weber - Show Titles I have been out of touch (long story) for a while. So this may not be a new idea. Have you considered asking listeners for show titles? then you would be responsible for finding a way to fit that into the show (or not). Here are some examples: "What is it? .....It's green!" "Use the Forks, Luke!" "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" (might be split into back to back shows. "Me Bairns, mo poor bairns" "Beam me back down, Scotty" "I'm a podcaster, not a doctor" "ni" Jus a thought Weber On This Day In History for October 23, 2013 This is October 23, 2013. It is the 296th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1906 that Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. * That same date in 1911 was the first use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War. * Also on October 23, 1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California. * 55 years ago The Smurfs, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs. * Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas today in 1970. * and one year ago today - After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * American actor Gummo Marx born on this date in 1893 * The man for whom the Fujita wind speed scale is named - Japanese meteorologist Ted Fujita, born today in 1920 * TV host Johnny Carson was born on this date in 1925 * Also born today in 1942 – author, screenwriter, director and producer Michael Crichton * Director Sam Raimi turns 54 today * Also turning 54, singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor "Weird Al" Yankovic * and Grant Imahara of the Mythbusters turns 43 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 23, 2013 News * The Vatican misspells “Jesus” on a coin (http://boingboing.net/2013/10/11/vatican-spells-jesus-wrong-on.html) - from MadMarv * Reminds me of Homer not believing in “Jebus” (http://videosift.com/video/Save-me-Jebus) * Asteroid could hit us in 2032 (http://io9.com/astronomers-discover-a-massive-asteroid-that-could-hit-1447068835) Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Hacks & Strange Stories * Space Crew May Brew Beer for Sixth-Grader (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/10/09/space-crew-may-brew-beer-for-sixth-grader/) * Introducing the iKettle (http://gizmodo.com/a-wi-fi-kettle-that-messages-instead-of-whistling-when-1442484258) - The WiFi kettle Happy Birthday to: * 25 -  Mad Marv (http://madmarvonline.com/) - spelled "K - Y - L - E" but pronounced "Marv". Hope that helps. * 25 - HMNSHLD * 25 - BritOnTour (Jason) * 25 - Scott (Minneapolis) * 28 - Dylan Licata (San Antonio) If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Remember When * Early 12,000 lb computer may be restored (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/10/16/ict-1301-early-12000-pound-office-computer-may-be-restored/) * The 80s promised us computer doctors

Coming up in this episode... * Doctor Who News * Ghosts need love too * ...and more lens flares than you can shake a stick at. Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. Feedback * From Jack Stevens * From Dean Jensen * From Mad Marv - Marriott camo cos players threatened with legal action (http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/marriott-hotel-carpet-cosplay-legal-action/) On This Day In History for October 9, 2013 This is October 9, it is the 282nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. * It was also today in 1604 that Supernova 1604 was sighted. It is the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way * Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California today in 1936. * 24 years ago today, an official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. * October 9, 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu * The last flight of the SR-71 was on this date 14 years ago. * Today in 2003 – Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration. * and today in 2009, was the first lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * German mathematician, physicist, and physician Johann Andreas Segner born on this date in 1704 * Also born today in 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, the German physicist and astronomer * Joseph Friedman, the inventor of the bendy straw, was born 113 years ago today. * Actor Scott Bakula turns 59 today * Director Guillermo del Toro is 49 * Actor Chris O'Dowd, “Roy” from one of our favorite shows “The IT Crowd” is 34. * As is actor Brandon Routh And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 9, 2013 News * BSA tells Hacker Scouts to change their name (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/boy-scouts-of-america-force-hacker-scouts-to-change-its-name/) * Scientists discover bacteria the poop gasoline (http://gizmodo.com/researchers-bioengineer-bacteria-that-poops-out-gasolin-1427882342) * Breaking News: 106 Doctor Who episodes uncovered in Ethiopia featuring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton - Mirror Online (http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/106-doctor-who-episodes-uncovered-2343474) * FYI: BBC to reveal a number of missing Doctor Who episodes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24448063) Hacks & Strange Stories * Singles sites for ghosts (http://www.ghostsingles.com/) * Moondust beer (http://gizmodo.com/new-space-beer-is-made-with-actual-moondust-1412055926) Listener Birthdays * 09 - Itsuko Rumpke (sounds like IT - SUE - KOE) * 09 - Mario (New Jersey) * 10 - Victor Cajiao * 10 - Garrett Riffal * 11 - Bruce Barr * 13 - Jason Schwanz Get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar (http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/page/Birthday+Calendar) Remember When * IBM Scientist predicted Netflix in 1964 (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-ibm-scientist-predicted-netflix-before-the-interne-1440206180/@barrett) * Timothy Leary-developed video games found in New York Public Library archive (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/30/timothy-leary-video-game-archive-drugs-are-bad-mmkay/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&ncid=rss_semi&utm_campaign=Engadget) Media Corner * J.J. Abrams apologizes for the lens flares in Star Trek

Coming up in this episode... * Dogs on Google Maps * Time Capsules * and...the Pluto Killer is still at Large! Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqodgcEZa4&feature=share Feedback * (obscure voice mail) On This Day In History for September 25, 2013 This is September 25, 2013, it is the 268th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1911 that ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston * That same date in 1929, Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from takeoff to landing is possible. * TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated on this date in 1956 * One year later, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. * 21 years ago today, NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail. * And on this date in 2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * Danish Astronomer, Ole Rømer, born on this date in 1644. * Also born on this date in 1893, Swedish mathematician Harald Cramér * Soviet Spy, Ethel Rosenberg was born today 98 years ago. * Journalist, broadcaster, and author Barbara Walters turns 84 today * Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill is 62 today * Former Superman actor Christopher Reeve was born on this date in 1952 * Turning 52 today, the actress and model Heather Locklear * Will Smith is 45 * and finally actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 44. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 25, 2013 News * (because we know the difference between an iPad and a pack of printer paper) * Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a talk at my university yesterday. This is how the newspaper reported it today. - Imgur (http://imgur.com/r/funny/wdaekjY) * New reality TV show wants to send you into space (http://io9.com/new-reality-tv-show-wants-to-send-you-into-space-1356335679) Shout out to the chat room * Join us live every Sunday night at 9:30 ET Hacks & Strange Stories * Abandoned Dog Spotted On Google Maps Gets Rescued | Geekologie (http://geekologie.com/2013/09/abandoned-dog-spotted-on-google-maps-get.php) * Harry Potter Wedding Spoiled by Failed Owl Delivery Service (http://io9.com/harry-potter-wedding-spoiled-by-failed-owl-delivery-ser-1355488652) Listener Birthdays * Sep 26 - Brett (from Wales) * Oct 01 - 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche ( Saint Louis Missouri) Get your name on the Technorama Birthday Calendar (http://technorama.wetpaint.com/page/Birthday+Calendar) Remember When * This Week in Time Capsules: Lost "Steve Jobs Capsule" Has Been Found (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-week-in-time-capsules-lost-steve-jobs-capsule-h-1356021778) Media Corner * Monty Python and the Holy Grail Modern Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKNDml12Big) Geek Library * Chris Noessel: lessons of science fiction computer interfaces - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SRmmwK-CLs) One More thing… * Full disclosure when buying a home is paramount (http://i.imgur.com/2kh4DPfl.jpg) And so much more we COULD have talked about: * Han Solo in carbonite found on Mercury (http://gizmodo.com/nasa-probe-found-han-solo-on-mercurys-surface-1341113838) * Shatner doesn't really want to go into space (http://io9.com/william-shatner-turned-down-a-space-voyage-because-hes-1355942702) * You can own a full size AT-ST (http://gizmodo.com/you-can-buy-your-own-giant-at-st-walker-on-ebay-for-jus-1361763367) * Google wants you to live forever (http://io9.com/google-wants-you-to-live-forever-1349384338)

Coming up in this episode... * Zombies * Hello Kitty * Whiskey soap Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-14y) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8t0wzv...

Coming up in this episode... * Bill Nye * Death Ray * Antenna Hats * Note: They all may or may not be related Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-14r) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/Ae7hcbR5X_k Feedback * Voice Mail! (in the Episodes folder) From John Miller: “Hey guys...if you had a live action movie done about you, which one of you wants Tobey McGuire to play you? Will Jake Gyllenhaal be okay to play the other guy? Let's kick-start this thing!” Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 14 - Andrew Peters (Perl Hacker from the UK) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for September 11, 2013 This is September 11, 2013 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1609 that Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there. * That same date in 1792 the Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them. * Stephen Foster's well-known song, "Oh! Susanna", is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh today in 1874. * 110 years ago today, the first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world. * George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer on this date in 1940. * It was this date in 1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service. * Six years later in 1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak. * NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars on September 11, 1997 * And today in 2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, born on this date in 1771 * Sharing that same birthday in 1816, German lens maker, and creator of the Optical instrument – Carl Zeiss * James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician was born today in 1877 * Also born today in 1935 – Gherman Titov, Soviet pilot and astronaut * American astronaut Robert Crippen turns 76 today * Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems is 74 * Turning 73 today, Robert Palmer, American businessman, co-founded Mostek (not the singer) * And finally the actress who played B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek Voyager, Roxann Dawson, turns 55 today. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 11, 2013 News * Bill Nye the Science Guy Gears Up for 'Dancing With the Stars' | Space.com (http://www.space.com/22686-bill-nye-dances-with-stars.html) * PSA I Need Help: Internet Rehab Clinics Are A Real Thing Now | Geekologie (http://geekologie.com/2013/09/i-need-help-internet-rehab-clinics-are-a.php) Hacks & Strange Stories * "Death Ray" Architect Speaks Out About His Car-Melting Skyscraper (http://gizmodo.com/death-ray-architect-speaks-out-about-his-car-melting-1265000912) - Archimedes Revisited Remember When * Remember the Year 2000, When We All Wore Radio Antenna Hats? 1939 Does (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/remember-the-year-2000-when-we-all-wore-radio-antenna-1166684284) * A Brief History of the Videophone That Almost Was (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-the-videophone-that-almost-was-1214969187) Media Corner * The Best Descriptive Noise Screen Grabs On The Internet - Mandatory (http://www.mandatory.com/2013/09/06/the-best-descriptive-noise-screen-grabs-on-the-internet/)

Hello everyone! It's that time again to pay tribute to one of our (http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2013/09/Amerind_obelisk-300x225.jpg)biggest influences.. Star Trek The Original Series! Specifically, The Paradise Syndrome (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome_(episode)) (Episode 3x03). This is the one where Kirk falls, gets lost, looses his memory, saves a kid, looses his shirt, fights a jealous guy, gets married, and almost has a wonderful life. Buckle up and hang on as Clinton (http://comedy4cast.com), Chuck, and Kreg pick on Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome! If you want to follow along and watch the Episode, you can do so at Netflix (http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Star_Trek/70136140), Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HKYP6I/ref=dv_dp_ep3), or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/star-trek-original-series/id324197193).

Coming up in this episode... * Setting up your Dial Up internet preferences * The importance of clearing your cache * How to hide your browsing history Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-14d) for complete show notes and video from the show. HEY! Are you going to be at Dragon*Con?? We are and we are doing a show! Friday at 8:30pm Hilton 203 (Watch Technorama on Twitter for changes, etc) http://youtu.be/3mXYHocZPto Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 22 - Zoidberg [1967] * 22 - Kyle Slingo * 22 - AlchemyDragon * 25 - David "Grizzly" Smith from Grizzly's Growls podcasts (http://grizzlysgrowls.com/) * 27 - Chuck's forgotten iPod * 27 - Mike Noble * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for August 21, 2013 This is August 21, 2013 is the 233rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1888 that the first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. * That same date in 1897 – Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles was founded. * Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory on this date in 1945. * The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile on August 21, 1957. * and exactly 20 years ago today NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * French scientist and engineer, Hubert Gautier, born on this date in 1660 * also born on this date in 1665, French-Italian astronomer Giacomo F. Miraldi * August 21, 1789 is the birthday of French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy * another mathematician, this time Hungarian, Endre Szemerédi turns 73 today * Chilean mathematician and computer scientist Eric Goles turns 62 * and finally Google cofounder Sergey Brin turns 40 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 21, 2013 News * Internet Explorer turns 18 (http://cheezburger.com/7742750208) * Archaeologists unearth pieces to a 5,000 year old game (http://io9.com/archaeologists-unearth-the-pieces-of-a-5-000-year-old-b-1153886602) * Have your ashes sent up in to space for $2000 (http://www.geekosystem.com/elysium-space-ashes/) Hacks & Strange Stories * Beethoven’s 9th on 167 Theremins (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/08/17/beethoven_s_ode_to_joy_9th_symphony_played_on_theremins.html) - Thanks MadMarv! * 12 course meal in a can (http://io9.com/an-elaborate-12-course-meal-squeezed-into-one-can-1077310236) Remember When * The Kids' Guide to the Internet - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c#at=145) * How One Inventor Secretly Built a Pneumatic Subway Under NYC (http://gizmodo.com/how-one-inventor-secretly-built-a-pneumatic-subway-unde-1123695775) * Pneumatic tubes are working their way back in to the office. (http://gizmodo.com/pneumatic-tubes-are-working-their-way-back-into-the-pip-1134366992) * Carrots: The big lie! (http://gizmodo.com/youve-been-lied-to-about-carrots-your-whole-life-becau-1124868510) What the Kreg * I got a plugin into the WordPress plugins DB! Truly Julie * Julie bought an Atari 2600! Geek Library * Want a Tour of the TARDIS? Head to Google Maps… (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/08/14/want-a-tour-of-the-tardis-head-to-google-maps/) * Syd Mead Techno-Futurist Artist (http://imgur.com/a/s9Oyr#0) - Album of 50 high res pics by Syd Mead,

Coming up in this episode... * Discussion about the ice age * mosquito mating rituals * We answer the question Do Spider Monkeys have spidey sense Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-142) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/pEjKme2xdLA Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for August 14, 2013 This is August 14, 2013 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1880 that Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. * Also on that same date 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. * An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England - that was August 14, 1888 * The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 was today in 1901 * and 38 years ago today, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted born on this date in 1777 * and finally American physicist Frank Oppenheimer would have been 101 today And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 14, 2013 News * Omni Magazine is coming back to life! (http://io9.com/omni-magazine-is-coming-back-to-life-1069015902) * Man Steals Computer From Church, Asks If They'll Remove Porn Block (http://gizmodo.com/man-steals-computer-from-church-asks-if-theyll-remove-1067281499) Hacks & Strange Stories * Scientists say it's possible to blow up the Sun. On purpose. (http://io9.com/scientists-say-its-possible-to-blow-up-the-sun-on-pur-1081542892)

Coming up in this episode... * item 1 * item 2 * item 3 Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-13Q) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/Ty4223S1JYQ Feedback Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 31 - Wedding Anniversary of Will The Computer Guy (2007, 15 years) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. NOTE: The Dog Days of Podcasting are on! (http://www.dogdaysofpodcasting.com) On This Day In History for July 31, 2013 This is July 31. It is the 212th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 153 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1498 that Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere. * That same date in 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. * The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia today in 1865. * July 31, 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. * Exactly one year later – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasting. * Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis on this date in 1938. * It was also on this date in 1954 that saw the first ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. * 49 years ago today – Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. * Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover on this date in 1971. * 14 years ago as part of the Discovery Program: NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * Animator and producer Fred Quimby, born on this date in 1886. * Also born on this date in 1926, philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist, Hilary Putnam * Martial artist, actor and producer Wesley Snipes turns 51 today * Novelist J. K. Rowling turns 48 today * and finally businessman, investor, and author Mark Cuban is 45. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 31, 2013 News * Goodbye, PCWorld Print Edition (http://techbeat.com/2013/07/goodbye-pcworld-print-edition/) Hanging in there. I have attached something you can talk about for next week's show. A No-Brainer, but PCWorld finally bit the dust and are canning their Print Magazine (after 30 YEARS!). I have the Last Issue in my hands actually. -Marc * PSA - 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside (http://gizmodo.com/3d-printing-indoors-is-as-bad-for-you-as-smoking-a-ciga-894193776) Hacks & Strange Stories * Raumschiff in Hessen gelandet - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSdC1pKJgIU) Stormtrooper officer Michael Schramm builds with his friends, the world's largest model of Darth Vader's Tie Fighter. It is 1.4 tons and nearly full size. * Google Algorithm Busts Chinese Car Theft Ring Entirely by Accident (http://gizmodo.com/google-algorithm-busts-chinese-car-theft-ring-entirely-895334541) * Man arrested for drunk driving a pool on wheels (http://geekologie.com/2013/07/guy-gets-arrested-for-drunk-driving-a-po.php) Remember When * Internet Pioneers Discuss the Future of Money, Books, and Paper in 1972 (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/internet-pioneers-discuss-the-future-of-money-books-a-880551175) * Spoiler...It all came true!

Coming up in this episode... * Privacy Dangers * Fictional Superman * and a Real life, Down to Earth Superman Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-13i) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/2MMZToYsVDo Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 19 - Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas * 21 - Ascii Adam from the Hook Show (http://hookshow.blogspot.com/) * 22 - Lance Heath * 22 - Jack Stevens * 22 - Chris Martinez (Scotland) * 25 - Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957 * 25 - Jim Guckin (http://www.jimguckinshow.com/) from Philadelphia, Pa * 26 - Patrick Norton * 26 - Daughter of Will The Computer Guy You know what, we’re going to be out for a couple weeks, let’s just finish up the month of June! * 29 - Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!) * 30 - Alexis Duran (ADdude (http://addude.podbean.com/)) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * 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’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for June 19, 2013 This is June 19, 2013 is the 170th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. * The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played on this date in 1846 under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. * The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford on this date in 1862. * June 19, 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth. * The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington 103 years ago today. * That same date in 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). * Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York 60 years ago today. * and today in 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher, born on this date in 1623 * Also born on this date in 1846 – Antonio Abetti, the Italian astronomer * Madeleine Astor, one of the survivors from the RMS Titanic was born today in 1893. * One of the best known of The Three Stooges was born today in 1897 – Moe Howard * The founder of Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, turns 37 today * And three famous actresses have birthdays today, Zoe Saldana turns 35, Phylicia Rashad is 65, and Kathleen Turner is 59. Happy birthday ladies! And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 19, 2013 News * Chris Hadfield, Astronaut Extraordinaire, Announces His Retirement (http://gizmodo.com/chris-hadfield-astronaut-extraordinaire-announces-his-512472683) * Probably the greatest video to come from the IIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo). Remember When * The Privacy Dangers of a Cashless Society Were Clear Over 40 Years Ago (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-privacy-dangers-of-a-cashless-society-were-clear-ov-512266908) * A Brief History of Tomorrow's High-Tech Living Room (http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18qen7ma0k5ncjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg) * 17 Incredible Photos From the Dawn of California's Electrical Age

Coming up in this episode... * Weird Keyboard Symbols * Cup Holders * and Musical Mice Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/xYdHvhfpYPo Feedback * Kre...