Joanne interviews Robert Tolmach of Changing The Present

story links: Bucketroom mashup (thanks, Ronen!), Animal rights activists call for the end to the NYC Horse and Carriages (image credits: 1, 2, 3, 4), NASA STS-122 space shuttle mission to the ISS rescheduled for January, M-430iA Series Food and Pharmacetutical Robot, J. Craig Venter applies for patent to own synthetic life, Butterfly genes, Google street view, Google maps zoom-way-in close-up, La presión atmosférica, Hare hare yukai zombie dance, Heroboy and Twindreams’ human wheelbarroe race, Litroenergy stays on for 12 years, Chris Christmas Rodriguez

Rocketboom field correspondent Bre Pettis makes a secret compartment book for make.

story links: Interview with Lauren Cornell on Rhizome.org and new New Museum of New York City

story links: International Human Rights Day, The 25th anniversary of The Commodore 64, 139th birthday of the first traffic signal, The Beard and Mustache Knitted Face Cap, More cities add LED’s to holiday displays, LED X-mas lights for sale online, Vote for Chris Christmas Rodriguez this year to replace Santa, Rocketboom on Tibet, United States only country unwilling to follow Kyoto Protocol, Rudd signs Kyoto Agreement, Investor’s Business Daily’s Patrick Seitz predicts Apple Macs will gain share, see also Apple Santa, Apple iPhone sales chart, Worldwide iTunes and iPod sales, Apple has $15billion stock pile, Steve Jobs and the Early Years, Weird Shoes, Tay Zonday chatting in Berlin, 17-jointed violin bot, Winston the Waterfountain (via)

Joanne surveys the winter dogs of New York City.

story links: tibet, the roof of the world, the himalayas, mount everest, the rest of everest podcast, what is buddhism, potala palace, the tibetan flag, conflict over tibetan independence, tibet’s government in exile, the 14th dalai lama of tibet, the 13 previous dalai lamas, rule of the people’s republic of china, the destruction of over 6,000 monasteries, riots and arrests reported in tibet, chinese troops travel to tibet using mountain railway, next dalai lama may not be from tibet, tibet’s environment under threat from global warming, the official website of the beijing 2008 olympics, free tibet movement | Additional Credits: Co-written by Hal MacDermot

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers Michael Mutuku from de Dandora Nairobi campaigning for city councillor. Extra: Happy Hanukkah Matzah Ball Madness from Washington D.C. Rocketboom field correspondent Andy Carvin.

Rocketboom interview with Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion

story links: (episode #800)Fastest clapper in the world (video), clap on clap off clapper commercial, PC Clapper, Ascii Generator, This year vote for Chris Christmas Rodriquez to replace Santa, Christmas tree lights to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Wizard in Winter, Rockefeller Tree upgraded with L.E.D.s, LED Menorah, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Republicans at their best answer YouTube user submitted video questions for the CNN YouTube Republican Debate

story links: rb field correspondent ryan estrada visits la mina club in zacatecas, zacatecas, mexico

story links: rocketboom field correspondent ruud elmendorp reports on raphael obongo and the miss koch youth group in nairobi, kenya

story links: joanne interviews tim westergren, founder of pandora radio.

story links: ludwig wittgenstein, etiquette in the middle east, use your thumb to point in indonesia, use your chin in honduras, maneki neko, buddhism in a nutshell, hamsa hand, william “dummy” hoy, chinese opera hand gestures, american sign language, swedish sign language | Additional Credits: Co-written by Hal MacDermot

Whats really going on at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. See also, The Bluies vs. The Peachies, The Imperial March

story links: Sumo Akebono vs. bodybuilder Geroege Farah, Ship bow Photoshop, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Decoding your DNA, dfgtuvsdigvofdhdfsohijdfhnidsghfdsiugdghoiidfougdfsghfgyrtdrg.com expired, HD Earthrise and an Earthfall, Procrastination Chart, Battleship, 10Questions, A better Internet by honey bees, Jackson Pollock on fractals, fresh night kite patent application, LOLinator, Ninety percept of IT professionals don’t want Vista, Opera of 100 smart rabbits, remote controlled pills, 24 hours of Miss Teen South Carolina, OMG! click here to see the best video in the world!, Space Elevator Videos, Tetris halftime show with Cal Marching band, Happy Birthday Prince Umberto of Bulgaria, Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, Washington D.C. on $85 dollars a day, Sandia’s Z machine for plasmas at 2 billion degrees Kelvin

story links: Saturday Night Live kaput?, old guard internet writers, old school internet designers, Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Underground), Not the Daily Show, Not the Colbert Report (video), Astronomers Journey Halfway Around the World to Study Five-Minute Spectacle, climbing goats in Morocco, Pentaphone Isolation Space For Cell Phone Users, Inflatable lunar habitat in the Antarctic, Writers strike of 1988 led to 9% decline in viewership, Book revival?, A new theory of everything with E8, Standard model of everything, E8 rotation video of 248 dimensions (music), E8 profile archived

story links: rocketboom visits rooftop legends at the new design high school in new york city. (music: pianissimo by flatlink)

story links: perpetual motion is finally real, revolutionary new telephone technology from 1969,
karnaughcalc (via apple recent webapps), recent headlines on the recent strikes: writers’ strike affecting campaigning for oscars, hollywood writers strike based on fear, theatre conference canceled due To b’way strike, where would money for striking writers come from?, broadway shutdown radiates out, eisner says writers should blame steve jobs, the poet as terrorist?, freemagenta, cassini sounds from saturn, techno viking redux, promesas (thanks, felix!), italian prime minister, 300lb water balloons

story links: rocketboom field correspondent bre pettis (and actiongirl) shows us how to make a rubik’s cube out of dice.

story links: joanne explores the present future of politics with andrew rasiej, micah sifry and josh levy of 10Questions.com

story links: PetroChina becomes world’s first trillion dollar company, Chessboxing, The Radio Hat, Joanne Hello Kitty Hell, Chris Langen smartest person in America (video interview), Take an IQ Test for yourself online now, New Russian spacecraft on the way (video of Sputnik), First HD video from Japan’s moon orbiter, wearables charge from breathing ((via ecogeek)), Quarterlife, Birdmoon vultures (thanks, Rosemary!)

Joanne interviews Douglas Egar, executive producer of War Dance

story links: rb field correspondents alive in baghdad covers the celebration after the iraqis win the 2007 asia cup. (help support alive in baghdad)