Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen of mnstories covers interactive toy sculpture artist Anastasia Ward

The Magic Number 30, The Airventure Airshow, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Martin Jetpack, Aulophobia on Wikirage, The Celtic Football Club, of Glasgow, Scotland, The Rangers Football Club, also of Glasgow, Scotland, Aulophobia on Wikitionary, The PetPocket Bird Carrier, FriendFeed, Andrew Baron on Friendfeed, 1894 Film of Annie Oakley Shooting at Targets, Professor Kunihiko Takeda on “Hypocritical Ecology”

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen covers the 3rd Annual Netroots Nation progressive politics conference in Austin, TX. Interviews with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen, Karl Frisch of Media Matters, and Irwin Tang author of Gook. For more coverage, visit TheUptake.org, Rocketboom coverage of last year’s conference.

Rocketboom special field correspondent Sarah Austin visits Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego, CA. Interviews with JJ Kirby and Michael Lopez of Wildstorm Comics, cosplayers, Shonen Jump, Bill Plympton, Ghostbusters, Rocketboy

David Byrne’s interactive art project Playing the Building at South Street Seaport in New York City.

Spammer literally walks out of prison, YouTomb tracks videos taken down for copyright violations, Deletube is now defunct, Contact Deletube, The Real Deletube, Migaloo an albino humpback whale spotted in Australia, Migaloo’s albino turtle cousin, Coral Grief, Coral Reefs Threatened by ‘Bleaching’, Just For Men, Pedicures by Dead-Skin-Eating Fish, Exclusive Images from the Waikupanaha Lava Plume (thanks, Kam!), Update from Kilauea, Fingerfood Plate Ring

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp shares with us the story of John Otieno and the continuing plight of some 300,000 internally displaced persons in Kenya as a result of the disputed presidential elections this past December. Previous Rocketboom coverage of the Kenyan election crisis: 1/8/08: Election Violence in Kenya, 1/16/08: Displaced Villagers in Nakruru, 1/16/08: Post Election Stress on Kenyan Markets, 1/23/08: Continued Coverage From Nairobi, 1/23/08: Kenya Crisis Continued, 2/13/08: 6,000 Refugees Seek Shelter Amid Continued Ethnic Violence, Kenya in Crisis page from the Rocketboom wiki.

McCain: There Will Be Other Wars, Smilin’ John McCain - Tough Talk - Fool or Fraud?, Ball Bounce, Obama Talks Tough, Biography of George Washington, A Brief Profile of the Continental Army, Dwight David Eisenhower At a Glance, World War II, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Grant, The Civil War Home Page, Abraham Lincoln Research Site, Emancipation Proclamation, Theodore Roosevelt Association, The Harvard Boxing Club, John Quincy Adams POTUS Page, Colorado Alligator Farm, White House, Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, Sage of Monticello - Thomas Jefferson Wiki, Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, George W. Bush was a fighter pilot, Andrew Jackson

The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco to name the Sewage Plant after George W Bush, Real Flying Car, The Sky Cutter .40 V2, The Flying Lawn Mower, Gear Factor Marketing, The heads of the International Space Station meet in Paris, International Space Station, WaPo: Put Wings on The ISS and Send it to the Moon, Slashdot Readers to WaPo: ROFLMAO, Connect a Desk Connects a Laptop to Your Neck, 9.2 Percent of Koreans are Addicted to the Internet, More evidence that Koreans are hooked to the net, ‘God is with us’ by the Choir of St. Romanos the Melodist, $314.44 Holy Birdhouse, Holy Birdhouse Mosque, Atomic Bomb Detonation at 1,000,000,000th Of A Second, Herostratus, Temple of Artemis, Rocket no boom (thx, Kam!)

Joanne takes a look at The New York City Waterfalls, a public art installation by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson

Dallas Building Demolition, Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition, Dancers Blinded By Lasers At Russian Rave, Principe de fonctionnement d’un laser, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin, Red Square, Moscow, Ophthalmic eyepatch, Inside John McCain’s Head Again, Iran Sucks at Photoshop, Global Warming May Cause Kidney Stones, Climate Science behind Kidney Stones and Global Warming, ALL UTIL. INCLUDED!!! THIS IS THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!, 10 Misspelled and Bizarre eBay Auctions, 51 Things You Aren’t Allowed to See on Google Maps, Rye Playland

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates the village phone project bringing affordable telecommunication service to rural areas in central Uganda.

Send Your Name to the Moon, Creepy Japanese Crawling Robot, 2012 Supplies - Everything needed to survive 2012, Escape 2 Earth - The Novel!, Save the Clock Tower Flyer, More Fireworks, SETI Adopt a Scientist

Bastille Day, Louis VIII of France, About Billy the Kid, Large denominations of United States currency, Instant Origami, Internet Based Political “Meta-Party” For Massachusetts , Large Hadron Collider Countdown, for the Large Hadron Collider, Easy Boiled-Egg Shaper, USB Necktie, Chicago Man Stakes Claim to Outer Space (May, 1949), iPhone2 by David Jr

Story Links: Joanne contributes to the madness, er, excitement!..surrounding the release of the second generation Apple 3g iPhone. Bill Gates responds, says uh. List of more Supercuts from Waxy.

G8, 34th G8 Summit in Hokkaidō, Japan, The Cost of Food: Facts and Figures, Food Prices on the Rise, World Commodity Prices from 2000-2008, Percent change in food prices from 2007 to 2008, The Rising Demand for Commodities, Does Ethanol Deserve the Blame for Rising Food Prices?, Surface Air Temperature Increase 1960 to 2060, Income Spent on Food 2006, The World’s Growing Food-Price Crisis , Rich country leaders wrestle with shaky world economy

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp looks into the establishment of Green Computers Uganda, a public-private partnership to sell refurbished computers and spur computer use in Kampala, Uganda.

What Is The Oldest YouTube Video?, Me at the Zoo Uploaded on April 23 2005, The McFly 2015 Website, Back to the Future McFly Sneakers Unboxed Going for $2,000, Save The Clock Tower, Back To The Future Prop Collection on eBay, Denmark Is The World’s Happiest Nation, 10 unconventional scholarships, ultimate swing tricks, swing tricks, The Grass Scanner

A week before the release of the new 3G iPhone, several people have formed a line outside of the Apple 5th Avenue cube store in New York City in hopes of obtaining a World Record for the most time spent waiting in line for a purchase.

Forth of July, Independence Day Fireworks, New York City 2008 (more explosives than any other display in America), Star Spangled Banner by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians

Milky Way Loses Two Arms, Jim Abbott, Lt. Dan, Galileo, Copernicus, Copernicanism, Fixed Earth Believers, Keanu Reeves at Thespian Net, There’s A Bomb On The Bus What Do You Do What Do You Do?, Knit Yarn Spock Ears, Explosion containment net Patent, Half RV, Half Houseboat, Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International, Ian Usher Sold His Life On eBay for Three Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Dollars, Ian Usher on Ustream, Instant Origami

Joanne interviews the creator and composer behind Podington Bear, artist and musician Chad Crouch. additional story links: Hush Records, The Decemberists, This American Life, Esperanza Spalding, Daytrotter

story links: chaos theory (via), gaston julia, julia set, benoit mandelbrot, madelbrot set, fractals, earthquake predictions chaos, darpa security chaos, artificial intelligence chaos, pathology chaos, cardiology chaos, invader set