The 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from New York City. Music: Symphonie Fantastique (1830) by Hector Berlioz, The Planets by Gustav Holst

The Annual Rocketboom Thanksgiving Day Parade Special. See also, The Bluies vs. The Peachies, The Imperial March

Joanne takes at look at Wavefunction and Less Than Three, two interactive sculptures by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Bitforms Gallery in New York City. Music by Podington Bear.

Ellie Rountree visits the redesigned Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Music by Podington Bear.

Assam, Lachit Borphukan, Mughal Empire, Battle of Lottorf, Happy Evolution Day!, Welcome Back, World’s first truly blue roses go on display in Japan, Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, Shuba Inu Dude Cam Parody, Color changing house by Italo Rota, Upside-Down Sky Planters Save Water and Space, Guerilla gardening, Le plus horrible jour de ma vie, KTUU 2008 Sarah Palin turkey interview

Explaining Evolution. An animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage

Ocean Dead Zones Growing; May Be Linked to Warming, Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ on the Rise , Scientists alarmed by ocean dead-zone growth, Ocean ‘dead zones’ expanding worldwide: study, What are Dead Zones?, Caspian Sea from orbit, Potomac River, Couleurs, Phosphate, Nitrate ion, Surface runoff, Stream, Algae, Pacific Ocean at Cannon Beach, Oregon, Ocean Bluffs, Nitrogen molecule, under the ocean, A Fish and the Floor, Bubbles rising past the reef, Sand Crabs, Shore Crab - Carcinus maenas, Snaps and the Crab 2, Another Crab, ugly fish, Cairo, IL from space, Mississippi River on the edge of Lake Itasca, Mr Angry is back…lol..:O))), Reef Squid, Minke whale surfacing, Air bubbles coming to the surface., The Descent, Tidal wetlands of Chesapeake Bay, Wadden Sea near Wilhelmshaven, Portrait of a Dungeness crab, Delfini, Watching the gulls and waves at sunset after the big winter storm

Joanne visits mechanical sculptor Steve Gerberich. Music: Miles Davis Video Game Music by Tyler Riggs

What will life be like in the Year 2008?, Steve Rubel: The End of Tangible Media is Clearly in Sight, Ji Lee’s Dead Bull, Space Shuttle Mission ST-126, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Steve Bowen and Shane Kimbrough to spacewalk, Amazon Kindle & Sony eBook, Finger Forks, Hands Help, Macbook Pros and Playstation Controllers in Windows Vista Ads, Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect

OpenID, Internet 2, Sick guitar trio video, IE 8 Beta, History of video game consoles (fourth generation), IPv4, Unseen 64, Team 128: Genetics of common neurological diseases, day two fifty six. we were framed, Finger binary, Browser Display Statistics, Intel predicts singularity by 2048, Making 4,096 Noodles, eBay search results for 8192, The Prime Database: Phi(3,-2322573^16384), Googlism for: 32768, 65,536 Lashes for Microsoft, Microsoft Excel Calculation Issue Update, Cactus runs on 131,072 cores on Blue Gene/P at ANL, Apple claims 262144 is the same as millions, 524,288 kiriban - Binary Girl , Megabyte, - United States Patent 2097152, Mongolia on a Map, Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted, Hexday, All in the Family

Joanne trains with Flynn from The New York Jedi lightsaber enthusiasts collective.

A coalition of artist-activists led by The Yes Men prank commuters and hack the media with fake copies of the New York Times. NYTimes Special Edition News Release, NY1 In The Papers 11/13/2008, Russia Today: ‘War in Iraq is over’, Gefälschte Zeitung erklärt Ende des Irak-Kriegs, Google News results for fake new york times,  The Anti-Advertising Agency, CODEPiNK, Not An Alternative, UFPJ, May First, Improv Everywhere, and Cultures of Resistance. Music: Storie di Mose by Arthur Cravan.

Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover Spirit, MarsPhoenix on Twitter, Spirit, hit by a regional dust storm, has reached lowest power levels ever,  Oppy is heading out on a road trip, Cassini Saturn, Interview with Veronica McGregor, Amazing Japanese Zoo Training Drill With Fake Rhino, Captain Fantastic claims world’s longest name, Teenager’s new name is fantastic , Proposition R - Renaming the Oceanside Water Treatment Plant, City of San Francisco, NY Times Obama Newspaper $1000 on eBay, New York Times: Online Can’t Save Her Now, New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes, NYTCo Takes $166 Million Writedown For New England Media Group; Faces $400M Refinancing, Vote Chris Christmas Rodriguez

Joanne interviews Blair Singer, writer of the play ‘The Most Damaging Wound’ at Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City. Music: Jackie and Flow by Podington Bear.

Joanne interviews the people behind ‘Doctor Atomic’, an opera about the making of the first atomic bomb. ‘Doctor Atomic’ is being performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.

If time was infinite and space was finite everything would repeat.

Dilate or Shrink Your Pupils on Command, voluntary pupil dilation, Frotzophone, Fireworks Help Find Your Car, Fireworks to Pinpoint Your Car, Capital Gate - World’s Most Inclined Tower?, Scientists find way to erase memories in mice, Inducible and Selective Erasure of Memories in the Mouse Brain via Chemical-Genetic Manipulation, cornered mouse fighting our cat spaceghost, Pushka Bear and Mr. Mouse, Dead Mouse Bookmarks, Human brain creature I made, Taiwan scientist invents world’s first chlorophyll organic battery, Gift of Green (1946), Energizer bunny Topiary, Energizer Bunny Balloon, energizer-bunny mascot, Mass Relocations Planned as Sea Levels Rise, Indonesian Islands 1, 2, Indonesia on a giant globe, McDonald’s: Want Water? You Will Pay For It., urban knitting: the world’s most inoffensive graffiti, thx Jeremy Meier!,
Scientist wants to ‘print’ new hearts, Sad Trombone

Joanne interviews Jacob Soboroff of WhyTuesday.org about the state of election reform and increasing civic participation in American politics.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers the “frenzy” over the American presidential candidate Barack Obama in Kisumu, Kenya, the home area of Obama’s father.

Joanne interviews the creators of Project Bueller, an effort to recreate the iconic parade float scene from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the 2008 New York City Village Halloween Parade.