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