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.

Jason Scott of Textfiles walks us through a history of online linguistics at ROFLCon 2008, Special appearance by Steve Garfield, Music: Pives and Flarinet by Podington Bear.

Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts at ROFLCon, Biographical information about Chuck Norris, The Book about The Truth About Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris sues Chuck Norris Facts, Vin Diesel Facts, Snakes on a Plane at IMDB, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Chuck Norris in Delta Force 2, Something Awful Forums, College Humor, William Morris Agency

Story Links: Jay Maynard the Tron Guy at the ROFLcon conference, MIT. The classic tron costume page that led everyone awry. Where The Hell Is Matt? Special music thanks to podington bear, ham radio by rtpalovich, Tron on ebay, Tron Arcade, Tron Trailer (redux), Tron (imdb)

Story: Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron captures glass harpist, Alexander Zoltan, on the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Story Links: Trojan Horse, NASA awards new lunch services contract to SpaceX, Soyuz TMA-11 goes ballistic , Obamacrombie and Fitch Gate, The REEM-B Robot, Dean Kamen’s Slightshot Water Purifier, Pixel Spout, Recycled Cell Phone Art (via Bill Pettit), Cloned Animal Meat Coming Soon, Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel, ROFLCon

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers the frenzy as Kenyans look to buy shares in state mobile provider Safaricom ahead of their IPO.

Story Links Happy Earth Day! See Also: RB field correspondent Drew Olanoff dumpster dives for recyclables and Earth Day quotes.

Rocketboom field correspondent Juliette Powell talks with comic book artists Ramon Perez, Mark Brooks, Romain Hugault, and N. Steven Harris at the 2008 New York Comic Con. Music: Sunset Stroll Into The Woods by Podington Bear.

story links: A New York Fairy Tale Continued, Music - Tender & Curious by Poddington Bear

story links: Joanne interviews Shaun Waterford who plans on breaking the world record for most days living underwater.

Encore story links: Interview with Bunker Roy of Barefoot College (thanks, Andrew!)

Story Links: Sark Island changing to democracy, Island sold on Second Life, CBS CEO gets major raise as ratings tumblr, Food Prices Have Doubled or trippled, Reverse evolution may have been witnessed as 2 species turn back into one, Nice looking Phone Watch, Arbor day, Dinner in the Sky, 170 holes in Earth, Cyborg June Beetles, Wouldnt you love to ride in my beuatiful balloon?, Horse Sled Waggon, Rotators, There is an alegator snapping turle in japan, Brain scanner, Descartes, Tomorrow is busy