Video from the 2007 NYC Halloween Parade. Come back later this weekend for footage from this year’s 2008 NYC Halloween Parade.

Atlas of the Netherlands, Global Warming and Coastal Deltas: Is The Netherlands Europe’s Bangladesh?, Dan Ardia’s Travel Photos, Houesboats, Waterstudio’s Flood Resistant Architecture, New York City, Waterarchitecture, Koen Olthuis of WaterStudio.nl, Floating Homes in Seattle, Spiral Island, Spurred by Rising Seas, Dubai’s Floating Ambition, Google files patent for floating datacenters

Joanne interviews participants at a coding party for the Twitter Vote Report distributed vote monitoring system at the Not An Alternative gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Vote Report on Twitter, Vote Report Volunteer Kit, Nancy Scola. Music: Koshka-Garmoshka by Olga Scotland and .

NASA TV to Air Station Crew Messages on Voting, 10th Anniversary , Sunsets and Plantbots, Singapore’s Ecological EDITT Tower, Pothos The Twittering Plant, Potted plant blogs in Japan, Midori-san livecam, Midori-san livecam machine-translated Japanese to English, Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers, World’s most efficient solar cells created , McDonald’s Cracks Down On Sauce Scofflaws, Wall Street slices eBay earnings estimates, targets, eBay Inc. on Google Finance, Alien Popcorn, Devil in a Potato Chip, Hermaphrodite Corn Flake Man, Chris Christmas Rodriguez [video]

Electronic Facial Contortionist, Armadillo Aerospace, Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, ColabSpace: Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge 2008, John Carmack, The Bloodhound Project, Antipodr, Human species ‘may split in two’, Trolls

Blazing Star, FAIL group on Flickr, Fail Blog, Fail Dogs, a collection of FAIL images, Pro Wrestling, a collection of pwnage, 1895 Montparnasse train wreck, What is Mayonnaise anyway?, Darwinian Evolution, Charles Bosk’s “Forgive & Remember”

The Sistine Chapel, James Ussher, Jesus on a Dinosaur, Plantbot, Human powered sunset will get you in the mood, Dim, Alison v modern architecture Baritone smoke alarms wake the deepest sleepers, images 1, 2, FishPhone, Finally, a microscope that can see an atom, FEI Titan 80-300 Cubed TEM, IBEX: Interstellar Boundary Explorer, Ubuntu 8.10 Has a Brand New Wallpaper, NASA: All systems go on IBEX probe to map edge of solar system, 2007 NYC Halloween Parade on Rocketboom, Worst Costumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Photoshopped McCain Zombie Images

A new amended law in Switzerland protects the dignity of vegetation, Gene Technology Act 2000, Giant Pink Bunny (Piemonte, Italy), Interpol proposes world face-recognition database, Bright ideas come to us at night, not in office hours, Head Kenzan massager will give Osim uCrown a run for its money, Head Kenzan Japanese massager, chip chop shops, 1, 2, Buckypaper, Superstrong ‘Buckypaper’ Could Be Dream Material

Video taken outside of a McCain-Palin rally produced by Keystone Progress.

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

line rider, music: tank! by yoko kanno and the seatbelts

Heavy Metal-Eating “Superworms” Unearthed in U.K., death metal images 1, 2, Death Metal music streaming, One-of-a-kind Microorganism Lives All Alone, At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone, Angry about economy? Smash some plates and move on, Man writes with tears, The Antarctic Sun: Bloodless Icefishes, Feds to use microchips to foil cactus thieves, Microchips Finger Antler, Cactus Thieves, Sticky Nanotape, geko

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp sails with the Dutch Navy who are protecting vessels of the World Food Programme from pirates off the coast of Somalia. More than 60 ships have been attacked by pirates off of African waters in the past year.

Joanne speaks with artist Lincoln Schatz about his project CUBE Portraits currently on display at the Hearst Tower in New York City. Watch more Rocketboom Interviews

Superpower, Cities With The Most Skyscrapers in the World, Malaysia’s Petronas Towers, Most Populated Countries in the World, CIA World Factbook - Rank Order of Internet users, Who Owns 2.2 Trillion of the US Debt?, Human Development Index, United Nations Development Program, Denmark ‘world’s happiest nation’, World Military Spending

O RLY? More Know You Meme, Something Awful: What was the weirdest/funniest answer you ever put on a test?, Original Snowy White Owl Image Silly looking Face by John White, Animated LOL gif, O RLY?, YA RLY, NO WAI!!!, NO, NOT RLY., O RLY on ED, Kungfubaby O RLY, O’Reilly O RLY, The O RLY Factor, YTMND orlyowl, YTMND rly, O RLY Halloween Costume, Eloquent O RLY, Adopted O RLY, O RLY? owl video, ascii O RLY, O RLY shirts 1, 2, On The Subject Of Owls. Really. , John White Threatens, Streisand effect, Orly owl heads

KVLY-TV Mast in North Dakota, KVLY-TV Mast at Google Earth Hacks, Previous episode on the ‘Tallest Buildings In The World’, Taipei 101, [map], Burj Dubai blog, As world’s economy crumbles, Dubai keeps on building, [map], The Aerium Artificial Tropical Resort, [map], Venetian Macao, Beijing Capital International Airport, [map], Kansai International Airport, Great Wall of China, [map], Qinhuangdao, Lop Nur, Crystal Island, World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island, “Crystal Island” in Nagatinskoy floodplain

Joanne interviews Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist about activism, politics and accountability in government.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp speaks with Morris Mbetsa, the 18 year old inventor of a system that allows you to monitor your car via SMS.

Teenar pulls all the right strings, Teenar, Girl Guitar - Fashion Preview, Political candidate punches TV host, 2, Chuwit Kamolvisit, PeriPeri, Endless PeriPeri toy simulates the feel of opening cardboard boxes,  Magnetic Movie, Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children [pdf], Bailout Bill Gives Tax Break to Wooden Arrow Manufacturers While Small Business Get the Shaft, U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media, RoboVox. Your Voice, $4,700 Sink Has Built In Aquarium, Magibon

Voting, Vote For Change, State by State Voter Laws and Registration Deadlines, Vote 411, Project Vote Smart, Orange Moon, Halloween Pet Costumes, 2008 Candy Toy Product Review, Winston Churchill, Genghis Khan, Oh Hell No, Rock The Vote, All Gizah Pyramids, Rosie the Riveter

Urban Black Bears “Live Fast, Die Young”, 1, 2, World’s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs), Solar panels installed on Vatican roof, Le Projet Triangle by Herzog & de Meuron, New Paris Building Casts No Shadows, Generates Electricity, Walter Towers by BIG, Scientists Create Device to Remove Carbon Directly from the Air, How to use your laptop to locate an earthquake, Welcome to the Quake-Catcher Network

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),  Domain name expansion ‘like gold rush’, changing to Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation, Easily mispronounced domain names, the OpenNIC Project, Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC), the Public-Root