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, 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nuvvuagittuq, Superior craton, and Tonalites, Zircon, Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad (1, 2, 3), Nature Jewelry, 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent, Preventing forest fires with tree power, Voltree Power, The human airbag that will protect the elderly if they fall, NASA’s Glory, Send Your Name Around The Earth On NASA’s Glory Mission, Send Your Name Around the Earth Web Form, The United States Chess Federation Earth vs. Space Chess Match 2008

All About Beards, Beards and Baldies, BLF - Beard Liberation Front, Famous Beards Throughout Time, Beard Cricket, World Beard and Moustache Championships, 2007 Winners, growing beards, beard competition