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

story links: PetroChina becomes world’s first trillion dollar company, Chessboxing, The Radio Hat, Joanne Hello Kitty Hell, Chris Langen smartest person in America (video interview), Take an IQ Test for yourself online now, New Russian spacecraft on the way (video of Sputnik), First HD video from Japan’s moon orbiter, wearables charge from breathing ((via ecogeek)), Quarterlife, Birdmoon vultures (thanks, Rosemary!)

Joanne interviews Douglas Egar, executive producer of War Dance

story links: social network geographical map, Rocketboom on MySpace, Rupert Murdock purchased MySpace for $580 Million, Rocketboom on YouTube, Joanne on Facebook, Microsoft buys Facebook crumb for $240 Million, Facebook worth $15Billion?, Google vs Microsoft over Facebook, Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal, Steve Balmer going crazy over developers, Social Graph problem, Google’s Open Social, cookie tracking profile ad sales

story links: tokyo dance trooper 1 & 2, will don come back?, echoes from the moon, the WGA goes on strike, breaking news in the diet pepsi and mentos meme, the politics of parsing, google open social hacked, facebook valuation, myspace comeback, fictional wwii light transport vehicles

2007 Annual New York City Halloween Parade

Story Links: bonfire, Chinese lanterns, dinner, Stonehenge, Day of the Dead, French graveyard, pentacle, Egypt, Hell, Pope, voodoo, Baron Samedi laughing on train, Baron Semedi commercial, Special Thanks to Abracadabra for generously loaning the costumes to Rocketboom | Additional Credits: Co-written by Hal MacDermot

Story Link: Joanne interviews Shakespeare Company Theater Artistic Director Michael Kahn on the new Harmon Center for the Arts theater in Washington D.C. [music by Two Violins

Story Links: Lungfish, Lungfish thought to see in color, (image 1, image 2), Human race will split into two different species according to Oliver Curry, New York City Zombie Walk, NASA expands International Space Station, iPhone Costume Halloween 2007, Fox News links Al Queda to the California Wildfires?, Turkey Webcam, Best eBay feedback ever

story links: Robot Monster, B-Movies Archive, Indian Michael Jackson Thriller Chiru, World Record attempt for most simultaneous Michael Jackson Thriller dances, Maker Faire Video Set, The Knitting Drummer, Ron Paul mention on Rocketboom, China in Orbit on way to Moon, No mention of China Moon launch at NASA, Hardees New Breakfast Burrito containing 1g of fat less the US Recommended Daily Allowance, 9000 ytmnd calories, over 9000 the new at least 100?, 4chan, Exoskeleton, Log Rider (thanks, iDrifter), Rosie O’Donnell Videoblog

story links: rocketboom field correspondent juliette powell attends the legal defense fundraiser for graffiti artist 2ESAE at eyebeam in new york city.

story links: Liquid Bendy, Log Riding Championship of the World, Ippon Nori is a ride on a log, The Ladder Climb, South Korean Fans, Bogsnorklers, Jump Rope Champions, 2007 French Downhill Championship, Beatbox Battle, 2007 Folding bike Brompton World Championship, Nordic Champion of The Flip, 2007 KNPV Championship, European Haidong Gumdo Sword Battle Championship 2007, Flip-side USA Hip Hop Champions , Jalan Besar Champ Taiwan 2007 Asian Luminous Dragon Dance, Lefteris Sarafis, 2007 HBA flartending Champion of the World, The 2007 Vintage Military Rifle Championship, 2007 Old-Time Piano Championship

story links: Rocketboom and Sarah Meyers covers Maker Faire 2007 Austin, Texas (Extra/Extended Video Set)

story links: Blackwater, Representative Waxman on Blackwater, DynCorp, KBR private contractor job listings, Army Pay 2007, Additional figures on security contractors, Council on Foreign Relations, memo to Oversight Committee October 1st 2007 | Additional Credits: Co-written by Hal MacDermot

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Steve Garfield checks out the Chevy Volt next-generation electric car.

Story Link: Joanne interviews Matthew Danzico of Around America in 2.0 about his free travels across the country.

story links: Radiohead pay-what-you-wish record sales, Star Wars trumpet girl, Allen Telescope Array, Techno Viking with captions, Superman reverse Moon transit, Hitler Banned From iSketch, Myriam Laplante’s Lupus in Fabula (via), Planet Hiltron, El Patito Feo -The Ugly Duckling

story links: William Wegman and Roxy Paine at Shake Shack in Madison Square Park

story links: 1582 missing records, 2007 Rubix Cube champion Yu Nakajima, one handed Rubix Cube champion Dan Dzoan, blindfolded Rubix Cube champion Chris Kruger, how to cube blindfolded, wall-mart spread (via), baby moving inside belly videos, Porridge making champion of the world Maria Soep, Hello Kitty Hell Glass Slipper, Jaiku bought by Google, Rocketboom on Jaiku, Rocketboom on Twitter, Rocketboom in Flash, Rocketboom in Closed Caption and multiple languages, Rocketboom on YouTube, Rocketboom for the iPhone, Rocketboom Blog, Motion Abbey, Rocketboom Store, system for destroying intruder astroids, demotivational posters

story links: Avatar Man, invisible cloak, motion capture, 3D facial animation with expression detail mapping, color based object tracking, Eyesweb tracking software, motion tracking home test, Tony Hawk motion capture for skateboarding game, motion capture suit, Wayne Rooney captured for EA Sports, Flo control

story links: First person shooter Avatar Man (via pixelsumo, see also: First Person Shooter by Blake Fall-Conroy), French urban Olympic training, 13-year student Johnny Lechner live cam, Appendix with a purpose, Instant Baby Machine, Human creation of life announcement expected from Craig Venter, Second Earth in the making

story links: boingboing tv, the plastic infinite, burble, burble london, wiimbledon on rocketboom, retiree wii bowling tournament, wii bowling championship match, retirement living tv, walter cronkite the comeback kid, transparent frogs, a real invisibility cloak, a fake invisibility cloak, sputnik, nekomimi lisa

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