Story links: Rob Malda a.k.a. CmdrTaco, Slashdot, Images Credits (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Idle, New York Times on Wisdom of the Crowds, Digg changes algorithm, Cheeseburger in a can (via), Reddit, Hard road ahead for Fox News, They, Gamera, Andy Plesser of Beet.TV interview with Jim Diaz, head of strategy at Vuse, formally Azereus about his P2P user base vs. Joost, The Lonely Amoeba

Story Links: The Moon, Lunar Registry, Moon Treaty, International Waters, Antarctica, International Space Law, Moon Energy, Helium-3

Story Links: Ludolph van Ceulen of Fildesheim Germany calculated Pi to 35 places, Pi Song, Simulation of Astroid attacking Dianasours, Nick Denton of Gawker attacks Church of Scientology (Photo by Dave Winer), Anonymous threatens Scientologists, YouTube Prince Mr. Feth provokes Anonymous, Christiantology threatens everyone, Out of control US Spy Satellite could cause major damage to Earth, Richard Branson Interview by Sarah Meyers

Story Links: The search for a good pot dealer, Robot in Japan controlled by monkey in US, Watching paint dry, Paint dry watching expert, Hardcore paint drying, Wikiboom collection of paint drying videos, Historical party in Melbourne with Corey Delaney and his famous sunglasses, Star Wars on bagpipes and Guinnes, Tom Cruise - The Freedom Medal Award Ceremony, Test tube universe nearest to absolute zero

Rocketboom Interview with Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, Wine Library TV interview with Rocketboom

Story Links: Joanne interviews Gizmodo’s Richard Blakeley who used the TV-B-Gone remote control to make a video of himself turning off TV’s during presentations at the 2008 CES conference in Las Vegas, [Photo Credits: (1) by Brian Solis, (2) by jonl,] | Extra: Ongoing Rocketboom coverage of Kenya

Story Links: The Social Construction of Reality, Apple is in the air, LP portrait record collection flickr pool, Jamie O’shea still travels slowly through time, Ubuntu Ruby Tutorial, NASA’s Hubble finds Double Einsteing Ring, Superelectronic (via), Superbad, Jodi.org, Subliminal candidate face morphing to persuade voters, Star Wars Guide to the Candidates, Super run of hardest video game in the world ‘I wanna Be the Guy’

story links: Jamie O’Shea is locked in a 3:2 time box for 3 weeks, Delay Pedal, Rabbits in Prison, Asteroid Nears Mars, Tokyo Stormtrooper, Japan’s Minister of Defense believes in UFOs

story links: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagogg- chaubunagungamaugg, Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamah - adilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit, Principality of Sealand and Order of Malta and the Kingdom of Elleore (via), Robot Bicyclict (via), First 2008 Entry into the Darwin Awards, Gaming Flowchart, Woman struck by lightening survives, Paranormal restraining orders, Tumblr, Rocketboom Tumblr Blog

story links: King Alfonso of Portugal, A woman was spotted yesterday reading today’s paper, Solar Cycle #24 begins, Fox Business News Network watched by only 6,300 people per day at any give time (example video), Jay Leno back on TV without his writers, Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial, ROFL-con, Tron Guy, I Can Has Cheeseburger?, Fark, 4chan, Where the Hell is Matt, Homestar Runner, Rocketboom iPhone Webapp, Erik Herz demonstrates Rocketboom streaming online from iPod touch to TV

story links: Game Boy Around the World, The rise and fall of Hello Kitty Hell, Twitter list of prediction lists, Ask Bill Gates at CES, Apple to take over world in 2008, Robert X. Cringely’s wackywise predictions, Don’t censor me “worst comments on digg” aggregator, Assembly motion tracking bot honored, via,2008 Robot Video Page

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

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)

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

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

story links: rb field correspondent ryan estrada visits la mina club in zacatecas, zacatecas, mexico

story links: joanne interviews tim westergren, founder of pandora radio.

story links: ludwig wittgenstein, etiquette in the middle east, use your thumb to point in indonesia, use your chin in honduras, maneki neko, buddhism in a nutshell, hamsa hand, william “dummy” hoy, chinese opera hand gestures, american sign language, swedish sign language | Additional Credits: Co-written by Hal MacDermot

story links: Sumo Akebono vs. bodybuilder Geroege Farah, Ship bow Photoshop, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Decoding your DNA, dfgtuvsdigvofdhdfsohijdfhnidsghfdsiugdghoiidfougdfsghfgyrtdrg.com expired, HD Earthrise and an Earthfall, Procrastination Chart, Battleship, 10Questions, A better Internet by honey bees, Jackson Pollock on fractals, fresh night kite patent application, LOLinator, Ninety percept of IT professionals don’t want Vista, Opera of 100 smart rabbits, remote controlled pills, 24 hours of Miss Teen South Carolina, OMG! click here to see the best video in the world!, Space Elevator Videos, Tetris halftime show with Cal Marching band, Happy Birthday Prince Umberto of Bulgaria, Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, Washington D.C. on $85 dollars a day, Sandia’s Z machine for plasmas at 2 billion degrees Kelvin

story links: Saturday Night Live kaput?, old guard internet writers, old school internet designers, Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Underground), Not the Daily Show, Not the Colbert Report (video), Astronomers Journey Halfway Around the World to Study Five-Minute Spectacle, climbing goats in Morocco, Pentaphone Isolation Space For Cell Phone Users, Inflatable lunar habitat in the Antarctic, Writers strike of 1988 led to 9% decline in viewership, Book revival?, A new theory of everything with E8, Standard model of everything, E8 rotation video of 248 dimensions (music), E8 profile archived

story links: perpetual motion is finally real, revolutionary new telephone technology from 1969,
karnaughcalc (via apple recent webapps), recent headlines on the recent strikes: writers’ strike affecting campaigning for oscars, hollywood writers strike based on fear, theatre conference canceled due To b’way strike, where would money for striking writers come from?, broadway shutdown radiates out, eisner says writers should blame steve jobs, the poet as terrorist?, freemagenta, cassini sounds from saturn, techno viking redux, promesas (thanks, felix!), italian prime minister, 300lb water balloons

story links: joanne explores the present future of politics with andrew rasiej, micah sifry and josh levy of 10Questions.com