Molly gives the long and the short of the longest film title and the shortest film to date. Story links: NOTDOT Trailer, James Riffel, Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D, Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery - clip 04, Berlin Alexanderplatz trailer, Assets: Burning of Hong Lian Temple, Burning of Red Lotus Temple, Old Film Countdown,
Baseball, Golf Club, Silent Film , Karin Hoerler, Falcon Motorcyles, Donut

Molly uses Wikipedia to thread the story - keep it going by posting a video response! Story links: American Airlines Flight 587, Flight 587 Final Passenger List, Enrique Wilson, Gonzo’s Game Winning Hit, Luis Gonzalez, 2001 World Series, The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, 2001 Arizona Diamonbacks Tribute, Arizona Diamondbacks, Topps, Mention of $10,000 gum piece, Bazooka Gum, Mueller Sports Med, Mueller Family Gives $1 Million, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW Madison researchers unveil brain to twitter interface, Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Jimmy Wales Assets: Flight 587 NOAA Crash Site, AA587 Tollbooth Video, American Airlines 587 Taxiing, WTC Arial March 2001, Arizona Diamondbacks, Roger Clemens, Derek Jeter by Keith Allison, Mariano Rivera by Keith Allison, WTC Looking North, WTC Lobby, National Park Servcie Statue of Liberty and WTC Fire, September 11 - Just Collapsed , JFK Terminal, JKF Plane Queue, Dominican Republic, Sports Illustrated , Topps Logo, Bazooka Gum, 13 Plane, Derek Jeter and Enrique Wilson, Enrique Wilson, Luis Gonzalez, Dodgers Gonzalez, Quench Gum Pic, Quench Gum, The gum to savor the longest, Science Hall, UW Madison, Memorial Union and Quadrangle, UW Badgers, Nitro Lab Music by: Podington Bear

Molly reports on duck faces, space hotels and more. Story links: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Historic Tale Construction Site, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, China plans for humanoid Olympics, MANOI GO やるならやらねば！真打バージョン, Scientists ’cause’ Beijing snow, China Causes Snow Storm to Fight Drought, To ease drought, Chinese scientists make snowfall, Thirty-eight people make reservations for space hotel, Galactic Suite, Intervention , sms ;-), Kunst Muss Nicht/Art Must Not, Roof, Institute, Berlin Wall, Anti Duck Face, Assets: Duck Faces 1, 2, 3, Tom Baker Photography Music by Podington Bear

Molly explains Guy Fawkes night better known as Bonfire Night. Story links: Fawkes Sketch, Guy Fawkes, Wired Sketch, Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, Execution of Guy Fawkes, Windsor Castle, Bonfire Night, Burn Me, Sparkler, Assets: Fireworks1, Fireworks2, Potatoes, Mulled Wine, Oranges, Toffee Apples, Toffee Apples2, State Opening Parliament, Queen of England, Queen Attends State Opening Parliament, Yeomen of the Guard, Largest Fireworks Display, Fireworks Night: Guy Fawkes

Molly reports on the latest in motorized chairs, polar ice caps, recycling, and more. Story links: La-Z-Boy, DWI in Motorized Chair, Motorized Lazyboy, Motorized La-Z-Boy, fun with motorized loveseat and recliner, Motorized Recliner, Aging to End in Manhattan, Life Extension Foundation, Run on Iceland McDonald’s as chain flips last burgers, Bottle Bank Arcade - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se, Oasis of the Seas passing Denmark on 31th. October 2009, Longest Poem in the World, Mahabharata, Music links: Fast Cars, 3 Coins Fountain, & Shot in the Dark by Luke Dubois, Unknown Orchestra - Silly Waltz, Hearts a Flutter by Podington Bear, Witches Sabbath by Berlioz, Felt like Felt by Cheeseburg, Germany

Story links: radiation symbol, radiation suit, moon, grains, department of environmental science, carl sagan, Luke Oman, Bakweri cocoyam farmer from Cameroon, Radiation Symbol, Level A Hazmat Suit, Arc Flash Suit Transformer, Moon Surface Craters, Pulses and Grains, Canned Goods, Canned Food, Bottled Water, Rutgers DES, Carl Sagan, man on fire, Alan Robock, we lost in the fire, Kevin Dean, Kellogg Photography, wonderferret, Graf in Arts District, Woolly Mammoth, Frozen Lake, Drought, Waterfall, Lake Hume, Lake Mead Drought, Drought, Delfin Show, Atomic Bomb Blast, Earth from Apollo, Fallout Shelter, Beer and a Book, Rutgers, Rutgers Newark, Old Queens Rutgers, Gas Can, Map of Russia, Red Duster

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Today is the 105th anniversary of the first subway line opening in NYC.

Story links: Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission, Monorail Cat, Newsreader attacked by giant seagull, Howard Dean on Dr. Nancy - Giant bug crawls in background!, Internet, Twitter Blocked in China City After Ethnic Riot, Still No Internet or SMS Allowed in China’s Muslim Region, 1/4 of China’s territory has been cut off from Internet…, Youth ‘cannot live’ without web, The Battle Between the White House and Fox News, Reality Check: Turning a Point of Pride into a Moment of Shame, Geraldo Rivera: Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Is A “Piece Of Crap”, Vanna Bonta quotation, Music: Invisible by I am Jen, Sunset in the Woods by Podington Bear, Neff Fountain by Genna Douglass, Snowflakes by Demerit 7

Story links: Jupiter, Water, Desktop Black Hole, Bad Memories Written with Lasers, Moby-Dick to be rewritten with emoticons, Emoji Dick, 2010 Olympic Medals to be made from old circuit boards, Turning Flyer Boxes into Planters, When skyscrapers signal a downturn, Twitter credit card iPhone app is a Squirrel, Leaving Iraq ends US mission veiled in ambivalence, Afghanistan, Rick continues as ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 5 hurricane well off Mexico’s Pacific coast, Europa, Conditions are Right for Life on Europa, Asteroid Impact, NASA: world will not end in 2012, Hallow-meme Costume Builder, Scientists Make Desktop Black Hole, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwars, Space and Time, Fruit flies’ memories reprogrammed with lasers

Story links: Balloon Boy, Playing Dead, Shepard Fairey Lied, TSA Agents Took My Son, Response to “TSA Agents Took My Son”, Nasa: world will not end in 2012, Institute for Human Continuity

Streetlamp, Frozen Female Body, Glass Harmonica, Lightning Rod, Kids Sharing, Evaporation, Oil and Water, Bifocals, Glass Music Glass Harp, Heat Conduction, Tokyo Summerland, Air Conditioners, Refrigerator, Charge Conservation, EZ Reacher, Transformers, Robot Arm, Sneeze, Hand Fins, Lead Poisoning, Daylight Savings Time, Fire Truck, Franklin in his study, Franklin Discovers Electricity, Glassarmonica, Ben Franklin, 13 Colonies Map, Franklin Stove, Franklin Gulfstream, Wave Theory of Light , Postmaster General, Odometer, William Strickland Hospital, College Charter, First Library, Franklin in Firefighter’s Helmet, Franklin Chair Stepladder, Constitution, Join or Die, Franklin the Printer, Contagious, Franklin Clock Design, Spare me my Life, Star Wars

Story links: Bear-4 HD Camera Flight, 1337arts Icarus Project TimeLapse Video (Max Altitude: 93,000 ft), Broadway Apple Store Flyover, Broadway store will feature unique roof design, high five new york city, Amplichoir, Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking, Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile, HostingYourParty, Has Microsoft Completely Lost It?

Story links: NASA probe slams into the moon, LCROSS: IMPACT, Blasted into space from a giant air gun, Internet Eyes: Video Surveillance as Video Game, 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter, 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: I-TEC’s Flying Dune Buggy, 10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Techcrunch Crunchpad Tablet, The Sharp, NASA gave me blue balls, NASA moon bombing dud…, LCROSS impact video disappoints…, Copywriting, NEO_AMiGA, NASA moon shot disappoints public with fuzzy white flash, How did NASA manage to make a moon bombing boring, Surveillance Cameras, Surveillance Cameras II, UK spy cameras, Surveillance cameras becoming more common study, Surveillance Cameras III, Surveillance Cameras IV, Surveillance Cameras V, Instant Crime Stopper, Kevin Computer, Game show winners, Computer Hacker, Angry boy on computer, CCTV Footage Robbery, CCTV footage of a robbery in action, Surveillance footage of an armed bank robbery , Breakthrough Awards 2009, Kamen Dean, Homeless, Cablecar, SF Travel Financial District…, SF Painted Ladies, Fruit Loops, Cap ‘n Crunch, Crunch Berries, NASA moon bombing lame…, 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Bacteria-Powered Battery

Vampires Move to Top of Costumes List, The Halloween Store on Amazon, Trick-or-treat bags may be lighter this year, Global Economic Crisis Halloween Costume Ideas, iPod Costume, iPod Dog Costume, Land Line Phone Costume

story links: Typhoon Ondoy, Markina River Raging By, Typhoon Ondoy September 26, 2009, MODIS Rapid Response System, Quake, tsunami near American Samoa kills at least 22, LA lifeguards clear beaches, Indonesians shaken and struggling after devastating earthquake, Officials: 3,000 People Trapped due to Indonesian Quake, Second earthquake hits stricken Sumatra, Mudslides Bury Villages in Rural Sumatra Valley, Rescuers head for Indonesia, UN waits for official food request, Obama offers support for Samoa, Indonesia, Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims, Why is Ondoy popular right now?, Why is Indonesia popular right now?, Donate to help children in the Philippines, Help the Philippines Weather the Storm, Red Cross

Expedition 21/Space Flight Participant Soyuz Docking to International Space Station, NASA’s LCROSS CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, Human Population Calculator, List of countries by population, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Unfair Robot Fight, Original Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings, Kangaroo, New friend joins Winnie-the-Pooh

story links: India’s mission to moon, India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon, Moon Mineralogy Mapper…Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface, Moon Water Found, Raises Questions About Origin Theory, Ice on Moon, No duh: Surgery success is not linked to phases of the moon, Mark Jenkins’ “Sleepers” Photos 1, 2, 3, Wooster Collective, 36 Skaters Make Downhill Neon Video Game w/ Freebords, Paperboy in real life, Fanged Frog and Other Bizarre Species Discovered, Fabulous furry pterosaur unearthed in China, Animals That Can Count Music: Podington Bear’s “Pythagorean Theorem”, Aaron Dunn’s “Sonata 1″

Molly is ringside for the Futura vs Verdana IKEA Smackdown. story links: The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Verdana, IKEA 2009 Catalog, IKEA 2010 Catalog, Twitter Rants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, IKEA Petition, Stop IKEA going Verdana FB Group, Futura, Verdana, Paul Renner and Futura, Matthew Carter, Windows 95 Plus, MyFonts Futura, Eyes Wide Shut, Volkswagen Ad, The story of classic font Futura, Absolut Vodka Ad, Domino’s Pizza, Red Bull, Apollo 11 Plaque, Diacritical Mark, Precomposed Character, Glyph

Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia, NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights, Rocket launch prompts calls of strange lights in sky, Black Brant, Milan Happy Clouds by Stuart Semple, Is Condensed Water the Salvation for Developing Countries?, DewPointe by AWS, Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings (via Slashdot), The Mashmallow Test, Glitch: Designing Imperfection

Things Salesmen Hear, Most Likely Side for a Piece of Toast to Land, Pie I’ve Eaten, Jay Z, Scripting a PC, Planck First Light Yields Promising Results, Space Doesn’t Really Look Like That, Google Releases a Nuke, Google to Apple: You Lie, Apple Contradicts Google, Letter to FCC, Google vs. Apple, Why Didn’t Google Throw Apple Under the Bus, What Would Elmo Do, Slo Mo Sneezing. Music from: Podington Bear

Molly has just been officially approved to work in the U.S. and will be back in New York City soon to begin anchoring Rocketboom daily! Welcome aboard Molly!

Las Vegas, Nevada, Tour of Las Vegas (pdf), New York City Sees Slide in Tourism , Tourism mecca Orlando sweats sour economy, Pinching pennies in Hollywood, Mortgage defaults high in Nevada, Foreclosures jump 57% in March, Nevada’s jobless rate hits 11.3 percent, Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, Harvey Perkins, As Boom Times Sour in Vegas, Upward Mobility Goes Bust , Stimulus Bill and Obama Disappoint Travel & Tourism, Reid and Ensign Discuss Bill to Promote Tourism, Tonight’s waiter, Can I Tempt You With Something Sir?, New Twenty Dollar bill, crunk before crunk was king, Crunk is F’N METAL, Las Vegas @ Night, Las Vegas Street Crowds, Construction 1, Construction 2, City Center Construction, Home of the $5 lap dance, Paul, the Assistant Waiter, Recession Special!, Wall Street Journal, PJ’s Birthday @ The Room, Store closing: half-off

World’s Second Largest Aquarium, Georgia Aquarium, Check This Out: Movie Monsters Size Comparison Chart, Dune (film), Shai Hulud, International Space Station Pass Chart, How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?, 50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe -A Galaxy Insight, Giant “Blob” Is Largest Thing in Universe

The American Meteorological Society, Climate engineering research gets green light, Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard, Time.com Poll: Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?, Online Poll: Jon Stewart Is America’s Most Trusted Newsman, Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings., Face.com Brings Facial Recognition To Facebook Photos, Totally Looks Like.com, Architectural Craziness Redux: Meet Manhattan Airport!, (via Kottke)