Summary: In this episode... * A message from the future * A message from the past * and a message to put on your do not call list Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-V6) for complete show notes and video from the show. Feedback: * Email from Charles Stell * VMail from Mark in Memphis Introducing the team... * Happy Birthday to: * 03 - Keao Wright * 03 - Leon * 05 - Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast (http://www.onthepodcast.net/) * 06 - Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners) * 06 - Bill Barbour * 06 - Steve Bickle * 08 - Curtis Parish * 12 - Amanda Huggenkiss * 14 - JPCJ * 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 May 9, 2012 * 1874 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874) – The first horse-drawn bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus) makes its début in the city of Mumbai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai), traveling two routes. * 1887 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887) – Buffalo Bill Cody (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill)'s Wild West Show opens in London. * 1904 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904) – The steam locomotive City of Truro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3440_City_of_Truro) becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). * 1926 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926) – Admiral Richard E. Byrd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd) and Floyd Bennett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett) claim to have flown over the North Pole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole) (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen). * 1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960) – The Food and Drug Administration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration) announces it will approve birth control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control) as an additional indication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indication_(medicine)) for Searle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._Searle_%26_Company)'s Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill). Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * 1837 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837) – Adam Opel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Opel), German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895) * 1874 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874) – Howard Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter_(archaeologist)), British archaeologist (d. 1939) * 1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927) – Manfred Eigen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Eigen), German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry) * 1931 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931) – Albert Abraham Michelson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Abraham_Michelson), German-born physicist, Nobel Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics) laureate (b. 1852) * 1931 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931) – Vance Brand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Brand), American astronaut And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 9, 2012 We’ve been nominated for a Parsec! News * What would happen if you put your hand in front of the LCH beam? (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/04/cern-scientists-explain-what-would-happen-if-you-put-your-hand-i/) Hacks & Strange Stories * It’s now legal to kill bigfoot in Texas! (http://io9.com/5907846/its-officially-legal-to-kill-bigfoot-in-texas) * Berkeley student automates his dorm room (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/04/berkeley-ridiculously-automated-dorm/) * Looks like it violates dorm room rules
