story links: scott fraser captures a flock of european starlings packing an eastern redcedar tree (thanks, scott!)

story links: rb field correspondent and editor sherng-lee covers an exhibit of trash at the atlantic gallery in soho | related: amanda covers freeganism

story links: rb field correspondent ruud elmendorp covers mobile phone booths in narobi

story links: rb correspondent bre pettis covers artistic robots at robogames including steambot, arca musarithmica and snakebot [extended interviews]

story links: network neutrality, save the internet, its our net, a note from c.e.o. of google

story links: fifa world cup, the lost episode of pokemon, uwe boll goes postal, gen con to feature video game music by the indianapolis symphony orchestra, amobile companies sign video gameers to muti-year contracts, usb air conditioned polo shirt

story links: rb editor sherng-lee huang visits the museum of comic and cartoon art in new york city

story links: excess calories from calorie-filled beverages, nostradamus sides with spain, doomsday vault of seeds buried next to the north pole, polar bear guard, hybrid animals, subject of images made to look like toys, online dating service matches people with like health conditions (thanks, yaqui!), robot rickshaw driver

story links: microsoft stock charts [related: soros drops microsoft, scoble drops microsoft, gates drops microsoft] bill gates says uh, full-sized red farrari knit, genpets (thanks, coshuko!), 5 year old performs perfect ddr, paul mccartney turns 64, cirque du soleil (thanks, m-c!), japanese rube golberg noodles machine (thanks, brem!)

story links: rb field correspondent bre pettis on sticks and stones at the earth sanctuary

story links: swiss mp3 player knife (thanks, kevin!), meteror crashing into moon, shredding videos, moo tube, the sheep market, nokia wi-fi phones for use in US with and without a plan (thanks risto!), rocketboom audience submitted t-shirt voting (to vote: send email with first choice to tee@rocketboom.com), dave winer interviews dvorak a tech writer who lies to his readers for fun, bush hates blind people

story links: german chancellor angela merkel launches videoblog, smidgits, genographic project, jimmy wales of wikipedia under attack from lazy college student, karl rove lays down for bush, karl rove ongoing investigation

story link: webby awards | extended: robert kahn inventor of the internet’s protocol accepts webby lifetime achievement award [mov | wmv]

story links: robert scoble is leaving microsoft for podtech

story link: introducing jet set show a biweekly for kids

story links: amanda interviews george soros [georgesoros.com, soroso.org]
extra interview clips:
1. the future of u.s. supremacy [.mov|.wmv],
2. turning iraq into an open society [.mov|.wmv],
3. open society institute [.mov|.wmv],
4. personal involvement in 2004 u.s. presidential election [.mov|.wmv]

story links: rb field correspondent chuck olsen interviews jon rawlinson, founder of the nata village blog in botswana

story links: national day of slayer, satan baby, stanton lavey wedding/theme park, hell michigan (via boing boing), political voodoo dolls, bjork street fighter (via waxy), pet mummy (via boing boing)

story links: the extreme diet coke & mentos experiments, flickr photo set by dorian young on dubai, praying woman struck by lightning, titanic replica made with 5 million matches, man jailed for mouse-in-burrito scam, bacteria eats chocolate and excretes electricity (via digg), teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant (via digg), baby with 3 arms may have surgery, pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit, a diversionary crisis of bush’s gay contrivance, 17-year old boy nearly gets darwin award after trying to use kung fu to stop moving train (via fark), yamaha introduces an airbag for scooter, laptop on fire, m.c. hammer/nascar blogspot

story: what to do with a rope, music: yerzmyey by 8bitpeoples

story links: snakes on a plane (thanks again, steed!), nyc virgin mobile mime parade, (thanks, nick!), slap book pro sensor interface, cordless jump rope, wtc ruins made into warship, rb field correspondents steve garfield and andy carvin cover boston net neutrality protests - day of outrage [video1, video2]

story links: dixie dialect quiz (via), missing ebay auction for back to the future delorean replica (video), brand new delorean for sale, broken laptop ebay sale story leads to personal revenge, casey mckinnon’s sci-fi galactacast, performance art chair (video), new yahoo video sharing site (thanks, lucas!), model airplane demo, comments back in business

rb field correpondent ruud elmendorp covers the growing turberculosis crisis in kenya

story link: u.s. war dead honored on memorial day

story link: thanks, no