Interview with Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd.
Joanne interviews Charlie Todd of the prankster comedy group Improv Everywhere. Best Buy, Frozen Grand Central, Food Court Musical, Human Mirror
Joanne interviews Charlie Todd of the prankster comedy group Improv Everywhere. Best Buy, Frozen Grand Central, Food Court Musical, Human Mirror
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN in 3 minutes, Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider testing didn’t cause a black hole, Large Hadron Rap (thx, Alphaxion!), The Global Warming Rug Will Last 1000 Years, The US Army Wants to be Nearly One-Third Robotic by 2020, Tetra Vaal Robot Animation, Kid playing video games, more kids playing video games, Monty Mash, Bitchy Betty bitches for the world to change (thx, Stephanie!), Was the Montauk Monster Viral Marketing For a Movie?, Splinterheads The Movie, Splinterheads Tumblr Blog, Telephone Piano, Free Rocketboom t-shirt for the first person to figure out the Riddle of Stella!
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Steve Garfield interviews the Boston Typewriter Orchestra
NASA, Campaign Reveals Just a Little Bit of Coke’s Secret Formula, $100,000,000,000 bill from Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Faces 50 Million Percent Inflation, Uses Gasoline Coupons For Currency, The Zimbabwe Situation, Man Successfully Undergoes Double Arm Transplant, Goro, The Unofficial Mortal Kombat 3 Movie Page, MontyMash, Bodies in Urban Spaces via SwissMiss, Ian Usher, the guy who sold his life on eBay, Ian Usher wants to reach 100 Goals in 100 Weeks, Ian Usher Travels to Dubai, Matt Harding Dances at Yahoo
Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp profiles Sharif Osman, a Mombasa Camel Man or “beach boy” whose business has been hurt by tourists’ reluctance to visit Kenya after recent post-election violence. 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, A Refugee In His Own Country, Kenya in Crisis page from the Rocketboom wiki, More stories by Ruud Elmendorp
Water Ice on Mars Confirmed by the Phoenix Mars Lander, White House Briefed About Life on Mars, Slashdot comments on the White House being briefed about life on Mars, Montauk Monster, What’s the Big Secret About Life on Mars?, Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA), Can MECA Detect Life on Mars or Not?
evolution vs. peanut butter, evolution vs. banana, laraque vs ivanans, bush vs. all people, bush standing vs bush standing, don imus vs. black people, geraldo vs. oreilly, mother vs. son, rumsfield vs. evidence, newt vs. spanish people, list of logical fallacies from the art of reason, post hoc, appeal to majority, appeal to force, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, begging the question, diversion, non sequiter, subjectivism, straw man, false alternative, ad hominem, tu quoque, poisoning the well, appeal to ignorance, complex question
Know Your Meme wiki, more Know Your Meme videos, Tina sings the Backstreet Boys, Tina Chen on PerezHilton.com, Tina strips [video removed], Tina on MySpace, Tina-SouljaBoy Remix, Tina-Angry German Kid Remix, Leave Kristina Alone, Kristina Chen on Stuff Ethnic People Like, Is This Tina in Jesus Camp?, Tina says it’s not her in Jesus Camp
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.
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.