story links: earth-like planet named OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, r.i.o.t. one wheel machine, how to pick a laptop lock (video), porta-cell phone jammer (via), usb privacy (via), biker hump (thanks, martin!) music: why don’t you give it by all day by pan

story links: rocketboom ebay auction, [music: friction (via), morning sunrise]

story links: super secret dance society, music: stranglebation by the porsches on the autobahn, [extra]

story links: cat helmet (thanks, penguinx!), southern lights flare (thanks, nicholas!), hard-disk noises (thanks, joey!), new england belt sand racing association, fireant, free video shorts from sundance, captain humphreys

story links: elephant training on a trampoline (thanks, gerald!), baby pirate (thanks, tim!), more on bush (extras), microsoft gives away private user data to government, west coast response to lazy sunday, chinese new year (thanks, paul!), german new year by rb field correspondent stefan sydel sms ;)

story links: rb boston field correspondent steve garfield covers the new england cable news station (necn)

story links: magnetic ferro-fluid, man builds island out of bottle caps, lives there (image)(thanks, steed!), ninja troupe video (thanks, kanton!), jobs to sell pixar to disney for $7billion, disney chief buys $19million home, celebrity news-stand offerings, apple/intel ad and and postal service music video use same production company (and footage), intel videoblogging contest expands reach, china building fusion chamber, 330 mile-per-gallon hybrid car (via), nasa launches pluto mission, rb comment of the week by chaz hill

story links: rb field correspondents ask why is bush so awesome? annie - los angeles, graham walker - prague, stefan m. seydel a.k.a. sms ;) - lake constance, tyson root - houston, steve garfield - boston, chuck olsen - minneapolis, milt lee - rapid city, music: tyson emanuel - touched by fire

story link: introducing rb dutch field correspondent based in nairobi, kenya, ruud elmendorp on aceh, indonesia one year after the tsunami

story link:: ask a ninja, man who claims aids cure not taken seriously, golden globes awards, steve jobs, bush out selling win to war, world health organization calls for pandemic preparation, the death of software, laughing is the best medicine

story links: vw bus drags, sonic banana, strandbeest, dancing bots, transformer failure, transformer failure ][, punch-out reenactment (via), final fantasy reenactment, princess rajah dance 1904, japan’s maglev, clerks2 feedback(thanks, jay!), apollo pony, be a gamer

story links: martin luther king jr., george bush wire tapping, poll suggest americans would impeach over illegal wire tapping, fantastic afterlife vehicles (thanks, robert!), vista osx by eden [episodes 2,3], filmmyroom.com (thanks, blair!), retro ipod (thanks, tom!), nasa’s spacedust mission returns home with comet sample

story links: rocketboom colorado field retreat (chuck, steve, milt): a million little lies, bird flu from chicken kiss, unicef calls bush greatest terrorist in world, jupelo goes to disney, macworld, tony kahn (full video)

story links: rb boston correspondent steve garfield reporting from macworld in san francisco.

story links: rb minneapolis field correspondent chuck olsen covers matt gray for techevangelists, d.i.y. amanda dance kit

story links: coldplay plays differently for indians, hp scan jet: 1, 2 (thanks, roberto, gahlord and jim), abston lego church, at&t billboard (thanks, david), victory briefs speed debate, sony admits to messing up, macworld

story links: c.e.s., images and thanks to: steve kerns, steve garfield, alison lewis, thomas hawk, steve lacey, philwolff, sdk, ahh yeah, kk, jkinberg, greg smith, inspired by dueling banjos, music: feudin’ banjos

story links: c.e.s., y.m.c.k.

story links: 1000-pixel ebay auction for million dollar homepage, coldplay’s new music CD has usage rules, (via), ozone hole repair models (thanks, dan!), bluesnarfer bluetooth exploit (video), creative labs rolls out zencast, bea camacho crocheted herself into a cocoon (via), the rocket launch (thanks, daniel!); music: instruments

story links: rb boston field correspondent steve garfield reporting on pulse points with d.c. denison of the boston globe and michael oh of tech superpowers, trident booksellers & cafe, music: 80s news theme songs, andy warhol for tdk

story links: one free minute (thanks, charles!), knitting help videos, smart dog bot swarm ball, digg posts in realtime, urban improvement installation; music: sunrise by community music project from butterfly on the wind, womens hoops from 1904, video: scfi

reminder: in addition to chapter markers, click inside video to launch story links in a separate browser window

story links: new years fireworks, music: charlie finlay, leap second, first humans in asia?, porta etch-a-sketch, steve martin blogs, million dollar home page sold out, largest ball of paint in the world (via ), xbox360 game sales plunge, microsoft experts rage over internet explorer, poland to stay in iraq, c.e.s.