Summary: In this episode... * Space * Old stuff * and at least one thing that’s funny C’mon, you know we’re going to mention that stuff SOMEWHERE in this show! Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-YT) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/IuTzEi7xenw Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * Sept 26 - Brett (from Wales) * Oct 01 - 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche ( Saint Louis Missouri) * Oct 02 - Adam Rumpke * 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 26, 2012 * It was on this date in 1580 that Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. * New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire today in 1907 * The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act September 26, 1914. * 78 years ago today, Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched. * In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy today in 1960 * 39 years ago today, the Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. * also on this date in 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. * Polish Wikipedia was started 11 years ago today. * and just four years go, Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist born on this date in 1774 * also born today in 1849 Russian scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ivan Pavlov * American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate, T. S. Eliot would have celebrated his 124th birthday today * Composer George Gershwin, was born today in 1898 * and finally Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor was born today in 1927 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 26, 2012 News * I didn’t win Neste’s Willie Wonka contest (http://gizmodo.com/5944284/nestle-is-playing-real+life-willy-wonka) * Holding together quantum computers with Scotch tape (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/09/18/holding-together-a-quantum-computer-with-scotch-tape) Hacks & Strange Stories * Dad Sends His Son’s Toy Train to Space, Creates Short Film Showing the Journey (http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/21/dad-sends-his-sons-toy-train-to-space-creates-short-film-showing-the-journey/) * The price may be high, but it’s better than a Barbie Jeep! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M3X6FC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004M3X6FC&linkCode=as2&tag=bkgas-20) * And then there’s the talking measuring cup! (http://gizmodo.com/5944174/talking-measuring-cup-will-never-critique-your-kitchen-skills) * What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard on Technorama? Remember When * Radio Shack Cell Phone Commercial from 1989 [Video] - How-To Geek (http://www.howtogeek.com/124985/radio-shack-cell-phone-commercial-from-1989-video/) * Phone instructions from 1917 (http://io9.com/5945619/instructions-on-how-to-use-a-telephone-from-1917) * Odd ways people died in Victorian Times (http://io9.com/5945484/the-oddest-ways-people-died-in-victorian-times) Media Corner * Christopher Rizzo - Google+ - This is by far the best Apple Maps meme yet.. (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110700994347677244209/posts/HigCgX7L95K)
