A week before the release of the new 3G iPhone, several people have formed a line outside of the Apple 5th Avenue cube store in New York City in hopes of obtaining a World Record for the most time spent waiting in line for a purchase.
Waiting For Apples (the group's website):
http://www.waitin gforapples.com/
Charles Darwin's 199th Birthday
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Charles_ darwin
Evolution
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Evolutio n
Commissioned animation by Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage
Wreck and Salvage
http://wreckandsa lvage.com/
Adam Quirk
http://bullemhead .com/
Joanne visits Global Nomads Group, a non-profit organization using video conferencing technology by Polycom to connect schools with scientists working on the Offshore New Harbor Project in East Antarctica. For story links and more info visit http://www.rocketboo m.com/rb_08_dec_01/
Rocketboom field correspondent and The Uptake producer Chuck Olsen talks to Christian Fundamentalists about Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, and the End Times in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
The Uptake
http://www.theupt ake.org/
Chuck Olsen
http://blogumenta ry.typepad.com/
Rocketboom Field Correspondents:
http://www.rocket boom.com/vlog/field. html
Joanne interviews Shaun Waterford
http://www.myspac e.com/habitatwaterfo rd
who plans on breaking the world record for most days living underwater.
http://tinyurl.co m/6odtbd
Rocketboom field correspondent Bre Pettis makes a shovercraft.
Shovercraft How-To
http://www.makezi ne.com/blog/archive/ 2006/12/shovercraft_ wee.html
Bre Pettis
http://imakething s.com/
Field Correspondents
http://www.rocket boom.com/vlog/field. html
http://twittervotere port.com/
Joanne interviews participants at a coding party for the Twitter Vote Report election monitoring system. For more links and info, visit http://rocketboom.co m/rb_08_oct_29/ Distributed by Tubemogul.