Technorama Ep354: Arrrrrrrrr




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Summary: Coming up in this episode... * Zwep * Flarg * Nip (c’mon, don’t you speak Zurn?) Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-YF) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/9lUned2vcbs Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 21 - Dean Jensen (Beaker1) * 22 - Matthew Tjarks (Jharks) * 22 - Bilbo and Frodo * 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 19, 2012 * It was on this date in 1846 that two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. * also today in 1934,  Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.. * On September 19, 1946 the first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II. * 60 years ago today, the United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. * First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob) was today in 1957. * It was this date in 1959 that Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns. * Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them 51 years ago. * Continuing with the unusual events… Today in 1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal. * Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System - that was today, 30 years ago. * Today in 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Christopher Stone, the first disc jockey in the United Kingdom born today in 1882 * Also born on this date in 1888, American mathematician, J. W. Alexander * Austrian automobile Ferry Porsche was born today in 1909 * The original Batman, Adam West, celebrates his 84th birthday today * American journalist Soledad O'Brien, turns 46 * and tech blogger, Gina Trapani, is 37 years young today. Correction to last week, it wasn't Erin Gray who turned 72, it was Linda Gray. Sorry about that! And last but not least, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 19, 2012 News * Software that could silence those pings automatically (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/14/pressure-sensitive-notifications-blocker/) * Caine’s Arcade Part 2 (http://cheezburger.com/41972993) * October 6 - Global Cardboard Challenge (http://cardboardchallenge.com/) Hacks & Strange Stories * GPS Shoes (http://gizmodo.com/5943572/youd-never-get-lost-with-a-pair-of-these-gps-shoes) * Pi in the sky (http://www.geekologie.com/2012/09/pi-in-the-sky-pilots-skytype-pi-to-1000.php) * Atari 2600 PC case mod (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/atari-2600-pc-case-mod/) Remember When * Remember when Superman disarmed a bomb by disco dancing? (http://io9.com/5942725/remember-when-superman-disarmed-a-bomb-by-disco-dancing) Media Corner * All of Chewbacca’s dialog from A New Hope on a sticky note (http://www.savagechickens.com/chewbacca) * This IS the droid you are looking for (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/09/13/this-is-the-droid-i-was-looking-for-r2-d2-keg-pic) What the Chuck! * Behold the poop tank (http://cheezburger.com/6578689280) Geek Library