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Leo has been having an embarrassment of riches recently for TTTT, and today he gives Dick 2 choices, a big ball or a small ball.  Dick goes for the small one.  From Zoomdoggle, BuckyBalls are "rare earth magnets" in the shape of tiny balls which can be shaped, molded, torn apart from one another and snapped together.  Each set contains 216 of these balls (made of neodymium iron borate according to the chatroom), and the challenge is to turn them into different shapes.  Leo is trying to make a necklace out of them for Jennifer as an anniversary present.  They're not replacements for iron pills, Dick adds, so do not swallow.

The Other BuckyBalls
Buckyballs is also the name given to spherical fullerenes - carbon molecules in the shape of hollow spheres - named after architect and inventor Richard Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller, because they resemble geodesic domes which are often associated with Buckminster Fuller who popularised the idea: photo below from Wikipedia Commons.

Fuller did not invent the idea and design of the geodesic domes.  A German, Walther Bauersfeld, working for Carl Zeiss, did that in about 1922, for the Planetarium at Jena, the world's first geodesic dome.  Photo from zeiss.de/planetariums.

The Littlest Giz Wiz Fan: It Makes Its Own Brandy !
Yesterday, Dick read the letter from David Sanders, whose children, aged 5, 8 and 10, sing the Monday Theme in the morning.  Today, Leo also has a letter from another fan whose young son sings another Daily Giz Wiz theme.  Sage from Olympia, Washington, has a son Brayden who was born 4 months after the launch of DGW (which was in February 2006).  3-year-old Brayden can now sing the Gravy Jingle, DGW's closing theme, even though it sounds like "It makes its own brandy!"  You can watch it on YouTube.


The Daily Giz Wiz Torment
Brayden is not the only toddler to be captured on video singing the Gravy Jingle.  Last year we had a 4-year-old singing it on YouTube.



A Show for the Incontinent
Dick thinks that the age for their show's audience is either 2-4 years old, or 50-90.  Yes, Leo says, if you can't hold it, we've got a show for you.


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USB data storage and protection.  Add hard drives as you go, completely hot-swappable. Mix and match hdds of different capacities, brands or speeds.  No downtime or data migration.  No software required.  No need for RAID.  Complete with blue, yellow and red LED lights.  Works with Macs and PCs.  Drobo from Data Robotics does it for you like a robot - the world's first data robot.

No TTTT Jingle
Leo forgets to play the TTTT Jingle.

More on WaterBOB
Bob Green from Santa Clara points out that it is recommended that the WaterBOB (Episode 319) be disposed of after one use.  Dick has clarified it with the manufacturer.  There is no reason it cannot be re-used, but it must be sterilised first.

Bill Gaines on Brooklyn Celebrity Path
On 30 May 2007, William M. Gaines, founder of MAD Magazine, was inducted into the Celebrity Path in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.  Other inductees included Mel Brooks, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Stanwyck, Jackie Gleason, Henny Youngman.  Dick attended the ceremony and later made a presentation to Gaines's daughter Cathy, in the Satanic Garden in the backyard of the DeBartolo Manor.  Read the Press Release.  Learn about the Celebrity Path.

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As promised in Episode 231, Leo reviews an Ultimate Ears product.  High-end sound quality from the Super.fi 5 Pro, with noise isolation and passive noise cancellation.

The Barbra Streisand of Podcasters
Leo demonstrates his versatility with a special rendition of Evergreen.

Magnavox and the Genuine Article
Magnavox (Episode 265) reminds Carl from beautiful Richmond, BC, of a Simpsons episode, in which Homer recognises the "genuine articles" with the labels Magnetvox, Somy, and Panaphonic.

Coincidentally, it was also in Episode 231 that a previous letter from Carl was read, in which he wrote about the Ultimate Ears 5C.


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SeeEye2Eye enables direct eye contact with the person you are chatting with in a video chat or conference.  It is  placed over your own webcam, and a set of mirrors reflect the video image of your friend from your screen on to a beam-splitting glass which sits in front of the webcam, which you can see.  The beam splitter, while showing the video image of your friend, at the same time allows light rays of your own image through to be captured by your webcam.  With extra software, SeeEye2Eye can also be used as a teleprompter.


Karaoke Version of Letters Jingle
Dave of Birmingham, Alabama, wants Dick and Leo to sing along to the Letters Jingle.  Sadly they oblige.

DGW Anniversary Coming Up
Tomorrow is another TTTT, but also the First Anniversary of DGW.


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