Show 021: My wheel just flew right off!

Show 021: My wheel just flew right off!
September 3, 2008

Art has an encounter with a bear and loses an XD card.

Mike loses a wheel.

Mike finally finished Cryptonomicon.

Alternate Titles

  • A bear in my parking space.
  • Mmmmmm. Cheesecake!
  • Did I actually say "Deers"?

This week in Computer History
September 5th, 1980 - The last IBM "Stretch" Computer is decommisioned.
September 6th, 1997 - The U.S. Navy commissions the U.S.S Grace Murray Hopper
September 7th, 1981 - The ILLIAC IV Supercomputer is shut down.
September 9th, 1945 - The First Computer Bug is found by Grace Murray Hopper.

News

Google launching an Open Source Browser
Rafe Needleman's Blog at CNET PCMag

Evidently, they meant to wait until Tuesday, but accidentally let it slip early.

The home page is at this URL, but it has been re-directing to Google.com. It's to be announced at a press conference at 11:00 AM yesterday (September 2nd).

There's even a 38 page comic about Chrome you can read here.

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