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

Anti-gravity, NASA footage of zero gravity plane, Go-Fast Jetpack, Mythbusters on the Anti-Gravity Lifter Myth, Expl of dynamical BB effect from stand point of ZPF field by T. Musha, Biefeld Brown Effect, UFOs-NASA, Gary McKinnon, Free Gary McKinnon dot org dot uk, Brian Cox, D:Ream, What on Earth is wrong with gravity?, General Relativity (intro), Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Does matter with a negative mass exist somewhere in the cosmos? If it does, its bizarre properties would provide the perfect space-drive , Is anti-gravity possible?, Dr. Sten Odenwald

A visit to David Blaine who is hanging upside down for 60 hours as part of his Dive of Death in Central Park, New York City. Music by b-man. Previously on Rocketboom: Joanne interviews David Blaine in Times Square.

Tim O’Reilly, Web 2.0 Expo New York, Conflux: Vertical Bed, Office for the development of Substitute Materials*, Artificial Time Travel, Astrophysicists weigh galaxy’s most massive star, China to snap four shuttles together to build a space station, Zhai Zhigang, China names new crew for space launch, China prepares for third manned space flight, Concrete jet printers to build houses, moonbases in hours, Pie I Have Eaten and Pie I Have Not Eaten, Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend hits 100M views, passes Evolution of Dance for alltime top spot on YouTube, Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend

Joanne interviews Susan Crawford of One Web Day Music by Podington Bear.

Mickey Mouse must die, says Saudi Arabian cleric (1, 2, 3), Search for Lehman Brothers on eBay, Hurricane IKE Wind!, Future Victim of Everest to Ride Down Mountain on a Unicycle, Oil Addiction Wrecked My Life, Anti-Theft Lunch Bag Deters Sandwich Thieves, World’s oldest man to celebrate 113th birthday this month, Dots Gloves eliminate cold weather touch screen woes”>, Study Finds Video Games Are Not Bad for Kids

‘Space traffic control’ needed in junk-filled orbits, Flaming space junk narrowly misses jet (2007), New Horizons, ‘Brain Transplant’ Successful as Checkout Continues, New Horizons on Twitter, Rocketboom on Twitter, Creature Survives Naked in Space, Tardigrades, Tardigrade Facts, NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology , New WiFi System on ISS, ESA looks for a name for its next long-term mission to the ISS

President Sarah Palin, President John McCain, Black Box Voting, President Tom Cruise, Pleiades, The CPU Roadmap, The Wireless Roadmap, I Drink Your Milkshake, Living in Polar Cities, Michael Phelps First Race, Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012, The Sun’s Magnetic Poles Will Reverse in 2012, 2012 Magnetic Pole Reversal, Atlantis and 2012, Nostradamus, Comet Planet 2012 AD, Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth, Marshal Mcluhan, Cold War, Nazca Lines, Microminiature Art, more, a look at the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival from sms ;), the Muwi Mower by Yuli Sung

Michelangelo’s David, Spore Gets World’s Tiniest Billboard, Requires Telescope To See, Spore’s DRM is awesome, 9000!! NINE THOUSAAAAANDD!, Feature Film to be Released on MySpace, The Mannsfield 12, Michael Moore to release new film for free online, Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising, Brilliant: HP Packages Laptop in its Own Bag, Koichi Toyama wants to be President of the United States, video of Koichi Toyama, Sporepedia, Preteen girl helps family escape crashed vehicle , GTA San Andreas, 2008 TechCrunch 50, DEMOfall 08, Probably Nano

Geek Weddings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Nine medieval ships found in Oslo mud, Viking Ship Museum, Norway beachcam, USB Webmail Notifier from Dream Cheeky, Observation Point Svenstavik, Gene tests ’show man could live to a healthy 125 and remove threat of cancer’, Spore (2008 video game), Ice sculptures in China, Google Chrome, Techmeme coverage of Google’s Browser Project