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.

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

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

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