story links: interview with joshua davis author of the underdog: how i survived the world’s most outlandish competitions, book [1, 2]

starsight project to charge batteries from street lighting (via), aluminum street light poles stolen, flickr vs. webshots, tom cruise buys a sonogram to watch the baby, google pays $1 to switch browser, microsoft pays $1 to keep browser, colorful bubbles called zubbles, rocketboom t-shirts, hoder is banned from the US because of information on his blog (hoder interview), transparent billboards (thanks, james!), panama canal, rubber-band cube (via), browser wars, firefox

story links: super-action joystick attachment (thanks, josh!), skater time lapse (via), attorney general ramsey clark to defend saddam hussein, bush approval rating chart over time, red vs. blue states election map, red vs blue states approval map, inside the xbox, xbox retail price set lower than cost, forbes on the xbox, the elderly gamer top 10 reasons not to upgrade, smash my ipod smashes xbox too (audio), run linux on your xbox, pong clock, lego dinosaur, firefox

story link: annual rocketboom christmas special with chris christmas rodriquez created by mother (thanks for the detective work, andreas!)

story link: dumpster diving, freegan.info

story links: x-box midnight madness on flickr [1, 2], google maps best-buy xbox store locator and model inventory tracker, two xboxes stolen from virginia, planet lab visualization of sony rootkit infections (via), christmas tree light show (via), christmas tree light show makes it to snopes, blogger business.com book sales website (via) [google cache, bird man with boot jets (see extended video)

story links: christmas lights sequence (source unknown) [update! lights by alek (thanks, takemynamedamit][update#2: carson williams from mason ohio used 88 light-o-rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights (thanks, alek!), andy carvin [re: 1,2] covers the $100 laptop at u.n., diggdot.us filers slashdot, digg and delicious into one stream, wind skiing (video), santa’s podcast

story links: new york city blue ball machine [ref:blue ball machine fixed, blue ball machine tragedy, music, rb:1,2]

story links: grave digger toy truck from wal-mart (thanks, blair!), graffiti writer with pump fertilizer sprayer, atari 800 laptop xe (thanks, walter!), doom running on ipod nano (thanks again walter!), donald rumsfeld and saddam hussein shake meeting in 1983, phoneswarm, corante symposium on social architecture, j.d. lasica of ourmedia, lisa stone of blogher, and tony kahn of wgbh, flickr (via)

story link: rb prague correspondent graham walker covers a slice of life in vietnam

story links: us governement speaks out against sony drm softwware (thanks, jan, phone swarm, rocketboom 640×480 bittorrents, rb on the rtlnews in holland, rb boston field correspondent steve garfield covers the boston auto show, digg vs. slashdot (via), blue ball tragedy (thanks to the 17 people who sent this in!)

story links: r50 min cooper to autonomous biped robot conversion [video, interview] (thanks, manuel!) ** update: mini cooper bot is a hoax (thanks, andrew and rman!), 18yr old high school student wins mayor race [image] (thanks, nathan & rachel!), kill bill’s internet explorer browser with switch to firefox for $1, zach braff, sony releases music cds with spyware, limited duplication protection and plagiarized code, transparent laptop video [photo set] (thanks, burned!), $575 t-shirt from saks fifth avenue

story links: verizon? (via), [note: this guy gets kinda mad, you may want to lower volume at work]

story links: bloglines, apple itunes, fireant, dtv, mefeedia, google reader, podcast yahoo, blue-ball aggregator

extra:
apollo pony rss feeds
rocketboom rss feeds

additional files for today’s episode:
QT small 320×240 | QT large 640×480 | WMV small 320×240 | WMV large 640×480

story links: checking in with rb german field correspondent stefan sms ;), full house intro remake (via), whats happening intro remake (thanks, noah!), oklahoma high school basketball team not o.k. - loses game 112-2 (thanks, genzo), knitted digestive system, crazy balls, michael jackson jesus juice merlot, rb correspondent steve garfield covers the boston auto show, jeff jarvis notes shrinking newspaper industry

two throat singers from cape dorset nunuvut by rb south dakota field correspondent milt lee of real rez (bio)

story links: france riots, pirates attack cruise ship, fractal food, xbox black screen of death, pants pants pants full house music video remake, tivo and yahoo sign on dotted line, correction: ‘czech’ street car stunt, rb correspondent steve garfield covers the boston auto show, sony robot dance, lasik eye surgery

story: comments

bungee jumping drumming (thanks, xrento), space station 5 years old [nasa, space], xbox 360 for sale now on ebay, microsoft’s live.com, rb boston correspondent steve garfield previews condensed baseball games on akimbo, itunes serves over 1 million video downloads, madison’s zombie mob, san francisco’s zombie mob

story links: stimmhorn captured by rb german field correspondent stefan m. seydel/sms ;)

halloween preparations:

makeup mania

new york city halloween parade:
pac man [.mov | .wmv]
oroborus [.mov | .wmv]
puppet [.mov | .wmv]
2 popes [.mov | .wmv]
fox [.mov | .wmv]
parade audience [.mov | .wmv]

music: sugartone brass band

Still more on the way!