Story links: Rob Malda a.k.a. CmdrTaco, Slashdot, Images Credits (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Idle, New York Times on Wisdom of the Crowds, Digg changes algorithm, Cheeseburger in a can (via), Reddit, Hard road ahead for Fox News, They, Gamera, Andy Plesser of Beet.TV interview with Jim Diaz, head of strategy at Vuse, formally Azereus about his P2P user base vs. Joost, The Lonely Amoeba

Story: Alive in Baghdad on the state of gold in Iraq

Story Links: The Moon, Lunar Registry, Moon Treaty, International Waters, Antarctica, International Space Law, Moon Energy, Helium-3

Story Links: Ludolph van Ceulen of Fildesheim Germany calculated Pi to 35 places, Pi Song, Simulation of Astroid attacking Dianasours, Nick Denton of Gawker attacks Church of Scientology (Photo by Dave Winer), Anonymous threatens Scientologists, YouTube Prince Mr. Feth provokes Anonymous, Christiantology threatens everyone, Out of control US Spy Satellite could cause major damage to Earth, Richard Branson Interview by Sarah Meyers

Story: Where lost socks go

Story Links: The search for a good pot dealer, Robot in Japan controlled by monkey in US, Watching paint dry, Paint dry watching expert, Hardcore paint drying, Wikiboom collection of paint drying videos, Historical party in Melbourne with Corey Delaney and his famous sunglasses, Star Wars on bagpipes and Guinnes, Tom Cruise - The Freedom Medal Award Ceremony, Test tube universe nearest to absolute zero

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports from Kenya. For updates, links and ways to help, see the Rocketboom Wiki on Kenya.

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp is stationed in Kenya and continues to release more reports on the crisis. Additional footage and updates on the Rocketboom Wiki.

Rocketboom Interview with Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, Wine Library TV interview with Rocketboom

story links: a world of lp portraits (inspired by the flickr group LP Portraits)

Story Links: Joanne interviews Gizmodo’s Richard Blakeley who used the TV-B-Gone remote control to make a video of himself turning off TV’s during presentations at the 2008 CES conference in Las Vegas, [Photo Credits: (1) by Brian Solis, (2) by jonl,] | Extra: Ongoing Rocketboom coverage of Kenya

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp uncovers the effect of post election instability on regional tourism.

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers displaced villagers in Nakuru

Story Links: The Social Construction of Reality, Apple is in the air, LP portrait record collection flickr pool, Jamie O’shea still travels slowly through time, Ubuntu Ruby Tutorial, NASA’s Hubble finds Double Einsteing Ring, Superelectronic (via), Superbad, Jodi.org, Subliminal candidate face morphing to persuade voters, Star Wars Guide to the Candidates, Super run of hardest video game in the world ‘I wanna Be the Guy’

story links: Jamie O’Shea is locked in a 3:2 time box for 3 weeks, Delay Pedal, Rabbits in Prison, Asteroid Nears Mars, Tokyo Stormtrooper, Japan’s Minister of Defense believes in UFOs

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: RJD2 - Work It Out directed by Joey Garfield with Ghost Robot.

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A day in the life of independent coverage of the U.S. Presidential Elections: RB field correspondents Chuck Olsen and Steve Garfield cover the primaries for The Uptake as RB field correspondent Jacob Soboroff promotes election reform with WhyTuesday?

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers the lead-up to the election violence in Kenya.

story links: King Alfonso of Portugal, A woman was spotted yesterday reading today’s paper, Solar Cycle #24 begins, Fox Business News Network watched by only 6,300 people per day at any give time (example video), Jay Leno back on TV without his writers, Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial, ROFL-con, Tron Guy, I Can Has Cheeseburger?, Fark, 4chan, Where the Hell is Matt, Homestar Runner, Rocketboom iPhone Webapp, Erik Herz demonstrates Rocketboom streaming online from iPod touch to TV

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: New York Airplane Flight by Sam Fuller

story links: Game Boy Around the World, The rise and fall of Hello Kitty Hell, Twitter list of prediction lists, Ask Bill Gates at CES, Apple to take over world in 2008, Robert X. Cringely’s wackywise predictions, Don’t censor me “worst comments on digg” aggregator, Assembly motion tracking bot honored, via,2008 Robot Video Page