Rocketboom Spotlight: 28 Hours of Jyväskylä, a time-lapse film shot in high definition video by Neo Kekkonen in Jyväskylä, Finland.

The Internet Bench from Gdansk, Poland, The Cat Residence, Watching Plants Grow, Watching Pigs Grow, The Church of St. George located Sofia, Bulgaria, the cyber-enabled single crystal X-ray diffraction facility at Case Western Reserve University, Bridge in Umeå, Sweden, D & D Family Billiards in Thorndale, Pennsylvania, Universeum in Göteborg, Sweden, Plusnet Customer Support Center, Ustream, Justin.tv, Real Tokyo Life, SpaceVidcast, Nekomimi Lisa, KCJJ Raw, Live From The UK, Austincast, Zane Savage Live, Laura News, Louiscast, Music by Podington Bear

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the rise of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Story Links: Eating a burger, NASA’s Phoenix Lands and is ready to report, Is this the way to Amarillo?, Cold fusion created in labs, Weezer Music Video Meme Pork & Beans, Video Pizza, 1979 performance of Adrian Mumsey’s The Lost Sheep, Wearable Motorcycle, Two-wheel Uno motorcycle, Mr. Toledano’s photo galley of bankrupt offices, Babies who get jumped, Horse Dance, We are the World Japan

Story Links: Memorial Day, Henry C Welles, Waterloo, New York, Comparative death rates of selected US wars from 1775 - 2008, Documented civilian deaths from Iraq War, Military and civilian war related deaths through the ages

Story Links: Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards at the Al Faw base redo Is This the Way to Amarillo? (by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay)

Video response to Andy Warhol eating a hamburger.

Joanne visits Peter Gabriel’s human rights video organization Witness.org in Brooklyn, NY.

Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.

Story Links: Muto graffiti animation in Buenos Aires by BLU, Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? on today’s mail-in primary voting, Study on trust in the US federal government, German speaking Rocketboom field correspondent /SMS ;) speaks with riz khan of Al Jazeera at the St. Gallen Symposium, Aluminum, Shrubbery Camouflage Helmet, Number of horns on a unicorn multiplied by the answer to life, the universe and everything furlongs, How many cannibals can your body feed quiz, Study links cell phone use near children with hyperactivity and other behavioral problems

Story Links: Icahn has Cheeseburger (shareholder but not board member) to overtake Yahoo! board, Yahoo! Board of Directors, Who is your Yahoo Pick?, Moot, 4chan (photo), Jay Maynard, Tron Guy (video, image), Michael Arrington, Techcrunch (photo), Admiral Ackbar, Mon Calamari commander of the Rebel Fleet, Tay Zonday, Tazonday.com (photo), George Bush, soon to be former politician, Michael Buckley, What the Buck, Tom Dickson, Will it Blend
(photo), Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left (photo), Nemo, Disney, Including music by Podington Bear - Hook line and Slinker and Bobby Birdman, , How to eat bananas by Sara M. Brattman, New York Times article on Aya Tsukioka and Urban Camouflage in Japan, colored pencils in the woods (via), Makeup? mountain in Peru, The virtual 2-D girlfriend projection, NYU’s ITP Show Spring 2008, Door to Hell in Uzbekistan, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a bottle Organ, Dragostea Din Tei in G

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Super music video, Roll That Stone, in one take with two time frames from The Phoneheads, a drum&bass group from Düsseldorf, Germany. Poor guy never gets to eat.

Story Links: NYC Videoblogging Meetup featuring Jake and Amir. Music by Podington Bear.

Alive In Baghdad reports on the formation of a citizen militia to fight al-Qaeda in the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.

U.S. declares war on Mexico, Mexican-American War, General Ulysses Grant, Stephen Colbert’s Birthday, Stephen Colbert for President 2008!, , Democrats revive Internet Freedom and Non-discrimination Act, David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report, Foreclosure auction on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch canceled, Sail-bot to cross the Atlantic, The Emergency Party Button, John McCain’s hiding in your news open, God Sends His Only Severe Thunderstorm To Jenna Bush’s Crawford Wedding, Terrafugia’s Drivable Airplane, おおっと！

JFK Air Guitar fetches $5000 on Ebay, The End of Everything, Phoenix to Land on Mars, The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, via Space.com, Red Giants, Kitts Peak National Observatory, Astronomers begin search for ‘vanishing’ stars, Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day, Extra Joanne’s Best Alternate Take

Story Links: Bathtime in Clerkenwell animation by Alex Budovsky, Music: The Real Tuesday Weld with Stephen Coates based on “Sweeter Then Shugar” by the Mills Brothers

Story: International Day of Numbers, Music: Airliner

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates malaria prevention in Kenya.

Final ROFLCon video for 2008, Kyle Macdonald of One Red Paperclip talks with Sarah Meyers of Pop17 about his book. Also, help Kyle find out who these guys are at who are these guys dot com. Music from Podington Bear. SEE ROFLCON VIDEO POOL.

Story Links: History of Cinco de Mayo, When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Bonnie Hamilton and The Harmoneion Singers, Ma Petite Biote by Sylvain Piron, El Relicario / Bolero (1927) by The Gonzalez’ Orchestra

Joanne meets up with davidjr.com in Union Square, NYC

Story Links: David Weinberger at ROFLcon with a lecture on fame, Music: Flutterbee by Podington Bear.