Archives for June 2009

Know Your Meme: Project Chanology

Know Your Meme: Political Memes of 2008

Know Your Meme: Disaster Girl

Know Your Meme: The Lipdub

Know Your Meme: Magibon

Know Your Meme: The Iraqi Shoe Toss

Know Your Meme: Boom Goes the Dynamite

Candy Cane Wreath Notes

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays!

Carnivorous Critters and Crackpots

Banking Through Mobile Phones with M-Pesa

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates banking through mobile phones in Kenya.

Future Architecture at the Epithelium Studio

Leap Seconds Pickle Popsicles

DIY Gadgets with BugLabs

Joanne visits BugLabs a manufacturer of open-source DIY electronics kits for hacking and physical computing.

The Matatu Minibuses of Kenya

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp looks into the growing trend of designing minibuses in Kenya. MatatuMania website.

Bring Your Own Robots (and Donuts)

Time To Save The Useful

Doctors Without Borders and The War in Eastern Congo

Joanne interviews Andre Heller of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) about Condition: Critical, a project documenting the plight of the civilians caught in 15 years of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Iran: A nation of bloggers

Did the Woolly Mammoth Wear Popped Collars?

An Interview with Don Tapscott

Ellie interviews Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital.

New Robots and Martian Wood

Talking To Antarctica

Joanne visits Global Nomads Group, a non-profit organization using video conferencing technology by Polycom to connect schools with scientists working on the Offshore New Harbor Project in East Antarctica.