Luke’s back and man is he grumpy. Plus new faces and old and a new ay for Rey to communicate! Tom Merritt’s attempt to forget everything he knows about the Star Wars universe and embrace the story in episodic order.
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A game you control with your eyebrows, Twitter’s new content requirements kick in and Facebook tries to ungame its news feed.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.
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Facebook cracks down on like-baiting, Twitter cracks down on what it thinks is offensive and France wants to crackdown on amazon.
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1839 – John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first lunar photograph.
http://www.fotoart.gr/photography/history/historyphotos/onephotoonestory/thefirstphotoofthemoon.htm
1878 – Joseph Swan demonstrated the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. His bulb would burn for about 40 hours. Edison’s later bulb would burn for closer to 150 hours.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6jgRWR1F7X8C&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=joseph+swan+1848&source=bl&ots=0KlFOPDQxv&sig=womCrG8fAAj-61N8N-PnxENyj-0&hl=en&ei=WlvYTr3mCIXYiALFwPWjCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=joseph%20swan%201848&f=false
1926 – In a letter to Nature, physicist Gilbert Newton Lewis used the word photon to describe a carrier of radiant energy. It eventually was used to apply to Einstein’s light quantum as well.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201212/physicshistory.cfm
1987 – Larry Wall released the Perl scripting language. It would go from being a SysAdmin’s helper to one of the Web’s dominant scripting languages, for good or ill, depending on the coder.
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/12/perl-is-26-today.html
1997 – HTML 4.0 was recommended and published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the W3C. It offered the strict, transitional and frameset variations, and deprecated many of Netscape’s visual tags in favor of CSS.
http://www.w3.org/Press/HTML4-REC
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Tom, Sarah, Roger and listener/Adviser Paul update everyone on the state of DTNS.
1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.
http://edison.rutgers.edu/list.htm
1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.
http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/wrights/1903.html
1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.
http://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/
2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/html5-cr
2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered, causing noticeable dips in Internet traffic as fans flocked to theaters and avoided spoilers.
http://www.newsweek.com/star-wars-bring-european-nerds-offline-temporarily-406709?rx=us
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1935 – A Time magazine article described the use of the pattern of capillaries in the retina as a means of identification called eye prints. Hello biometrics!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755453,00.html
1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/labpages/labpg3.html
2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.
https://creativecommons.org/2002/12/16/creativecommonsunveilsmachinereadablecopyrightlicenses/
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Vice begins planning to subvert the ISPs, the cryptocurrency bubble continues to inflate and TVs to watch at CES and beyond.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Rob Reid, Patrick Norton and Len Peralta.
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Amazon, Apple and Gogole playing nicer, Facebook adds a snooze button and Google rolls out light beam internet in India.
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1953 – Dudley Buck entered the idea for the Cryotron into his MIT notebook. The cryotron is a four-terminal superconductive computer component.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Cryotron
1965 – Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-104A
1994 – Netscape shipped version 1.0 of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.
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