story links: john bolton demands 750 amendments to pre-established u.n. world vision (thanks, matt!), historical punk venue cbgb in danger of closing (extended interview by missing kitten tv ) [save cbgb], music: flop-eared mule by the blue ridge highballers, business week article on rocketboom by heather green, mars reconnoissance orbiter making headway through space, register for the free converge south conference, (image of john bolton) got milk?

** katrina storm updates

lisa “left eye” lopes [video, music, news, image]

story links: clark ov saturn [sic] interviews todd polenburg of dance dance revolution hack, bush bush revolution

story links: dumpster diving, the high line: [instructions/images, overview, news], delaortofadown (thanks, nick!) [music by system of a down (thanks, rahul!)]

story links: space elevator [image, video], boing boing offers $1 million prize for proof jesus is not the son of the flying spaghetti monster, japanese prime minister attacked by robot (thanks, kenyatta!), eggzakt sends in an audio fix for rb current tv interview, university of wisconsin top party school, bush ratings sink to 36%, robert moog dies at 71 [video]

story links: back in the u.s.s.r., elvis the robocat by carlo, hunter s. thompson fired from cannon, c.b.s. evening news covers rocketboom and vlogging (qt video), christopher walken for president is a hoax, the urban ninja, karate master, apollo pony

where the hell is amanda? amanda has been gone all week (hence the correspondent special features). we just got this tape in yesterday via fed-ex. do you know where she is? can you name each location? updated video with location subtitles and music links tonight at 8pm e.d.t. [a continuation of where the hell is amanda in austin, inspired again by where the hell is matt]

**update**
1. p.i.e.: st. petersburg intl. airport, 2. rostra columns, 3. fields of mars, 4. the russian art museum, 5. gardens of peter the great, 6. peterhof fountains, 7. gulf of finland, 8. st. isaac’s cathedral, 9. peterhof canal, 11. chess board cascade, 12. neva river, 13. peter and paul cathedral, 14. peter the great at senate sq., 15. tatiana (tour guide) and resurrection cathedral, 16. peter the great at the peter and paul fortress, music: pidmanula by barynya

story links: opentopia webcams, equiflor corp, boston field correspondent steve garfield covers a cindy sheehan vigil, music by david rovics

story links: los angeles field correspondent zadi interviews amy hattemer from the chain camera documentary by kirby dick

story link: introducing prague, czech republic rocketboom field correspondent graham walker on tibet

bedtime by tony armstrong (thanks, schlomo!)

story links: 2005 freestyle frisbee world championship sent in by aaron the truck driver, bone ring biojewelry, man dies playing videogames (thanks, sean!), kennedy music video titled ‘your momma’ (via), muslim kids play beheading (via), public service announcement to prevent confusion, original gene kelly singing in the rain from reel classics

story links: brooklyn botanical gardens, footage, nagasaki 60 year atom bombing commemoration, nagasaki today

story links: special effects in radarwoman, nike free via cool tools blog, hug over distance, yell at a blender, space shuttle discovery lands safely in california, podcast from space?

story links: re-enactment of classic video-game paperboy by mega64, sony’s bunch of bouncy balls, participatory culture to launch DTV, abc anchor peter jennings passes away, scientists clone a dog, u.k. bot saves russian sub, novak walks from cnn set, bush takes a month long vacation, peter jennings (video)

related links: radar men from the moon (george bush, scotty mcclellan, john bolton).

story links: field correspondent zadi interviews host laura ling from current.tv [extended interview], amanda checks in with field correspondent stefan /sms ;-) on lake constance

**update: 08/06 **
RB’s famous viewer Eggzakt is working on improving the sound quality here is an example of the improved version (beginning of file) and the original (half way through).

update ** 08/23 **
Eggzakt full fix (audio update applied to entire video):
rb_05_aug_03_fixed_eggzakt.mov

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