Story Links: Summer Solstice, Music: Squirell Commotion by Podington Bear

Joanne plays the keyboard.

On the red carpet of the 2008 Webby Awards with Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live, Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger, Ludacris of WeMix.com, Shawn Hardin of Flock, Will I Am of the Black Eyed Peas, and Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, earlier Rocketboom coverage of the Webby Film and Video Awards.

Battle of the Browsers continued, Firefox vs Internet Explorer, Classic Rocketboom episode from Firefox Release 2, Music Invisible Is Not Invincible by Podington Bear

Story Links: Leopold Bloom Bloomsday, Oshea’s in Dublin live cam, Deep sea creature, Spore demo by Will Wright, Download Spore Creature Creator, Spore creature creator demo screen captures, Caring Continuum Chart, Childrens drawings into photos by Yeondoo Jung, Rocketboom field correspondent John Coffy covers Odunde, Pluto demoted (Rocketboom archive), Pluto named Plutoid, Framed share of Disney and Atari, Screen Actors Guild Set for possible strike, Firefox 3

Story Links: Iraq Tag Galaxy, Iraq on Arc, Iraq on Kartoo, Iraq Newsmap, Obleek Iraq War Coalition Fatalities, Iraq on Flickr, Iraq on News Spectrum, Iraq on Bigspy, Iraq on Summize, Iraq on Stack, Iraq on Think Map Visual Thesaurus, Iraq on Google News Cloud, Iraq on Searchme Visual search, Music: Pythagorean Theorem by Podington Bear

Story Links Wiimbledon 2008, Barcade, music by Podington Bear, Wiimbledon 2007 by Rocketboom

Story Links: Winners of the Webbys 2008 Online Film and Video Awards Including interviews with Richter Scales, 30 Second Bunnies Theatre , Tay Zonday, DailyGreens, Diggnation, Totally Rad Show, You Suck at Photoshop, Wainy Days Music: Podington Bear. See also, Rocketboom at the Webbys 2007

story inks: robert millis of american microphone interviews 1st lt. paul rieckhoff founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, george bush responds to a question about private contractors, audit finds u.s. hid actual cost of iraq projects, contractors in iraq make costs balloon

story links: Blackwater, Representative Waxman on Blackwater, DynCorp, KBR private contractor job listings, Army Pay 2007, Additional figures on security contractors, Council on Foreign Relations, memo to Oversight Committee October 1st 2007, Co-written by Hal MacDermot

story links: final times for coney island’s astroland, music by kris

Immersive composition of looping sounds from the streets of Chinatown.

What is Epistemology?, Thales says Everything is Water, Anaximander says Everything is Air, Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth , Skepticism entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The New England Skeptical Society, music by podington bear (nature kid), image credits: leap, annonymous, god hands, puppeteer, brain in vat, baby hands, bre, brain messages, scary girl, poltergeist kid, trees, fame guy, brain neurons, space pics (1, 2)

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the story of some 2,000 refugees seeking safety in the Methodist Church in the wake of the recent xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg, South Africa.

How to Siphon Gas from a Newer Vehicle, Paintings by Hitler purchased and remixed, for the show If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, Body Vandals, slam!, Running into the garage door, Kid vs Garage Door, Inner city snail, Painting Chewing Gum revisited, Rome sacked by Geiseric the Lame, Big Plushies on the Streets of Hong Kong, Wall Street Bull, Signs of Spring by Mark Jenkins

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