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

story links: Images of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on Flickr by Zipckr, by TimTom, by Image Editor, Faces of Death nuclear bomb test, Concerned Hawaiians file suit to stop the LHC from blowing up the world, The assassination of John F Kennedy vs The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Balloon Clothes, The Jump Bike, The Evolution of Space Debris, Satellite to be junked because lunar flyby is patented, 162 Million websites on the Internet, Stonehenge, ‘Breakthrough’ at Stonehenge dig, Ronald McDonald insanity, What’s gonna [Donald] Donna, Donald MAD, Laugh now but one day we will meat at McDonalds

Story: Twitter Madness. Music: Infinity.

story links: Dictionaraoke, Disney movies in 3D, Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone covers the creepy new Segway RMP Robot, Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track, Osamu Tezuka’s Galaxy Boy Troop puppet space opera of the early 1960’s, Seed Magazine interview with Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals, Chain Surfing, She without arm he without leg ballet, Kitty Tennis, Send Queen Rania of Jordan your stereotypes

story links: Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff talks to computer security expert Ed Felten of Princeton University and Freedom-to-Tinker on the state of electronic voting machines.

story links: Signs of Spring, Inflatable Animals, 6000 sq mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is breaking off, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Melting Icecaps may trigger more volcanic eruptions, WWF Paper Dispenser, Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet, Princeton’s Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit, Psychology of Marketing, The Potato Song, Flickr Photo Credits (Eggybird, Rob Lee, JasonTromm)

story links: Rocketboom boom mashup by Ronen, Hydrodynamic rotisseries, The Mechanical Beanstalk, 1951 Obituary Index, Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film), Students challenged to go complaint-free, Sitar Hero, Rocketboom Blog, Magic Pen, Yahoo receives warning from the Death Star, My Little Pony-Halo Mashup, A World of Custom “My Little Pony” Toys, Charlton Heston died, Showbiz Pizza Wolfpack 5, Pizza.com sells for $2.6B dollars (via slashdot)

Story Links: Joanne hits the streets to look for new videos to watch on YouTube and finds French Kiss New York, Monty Python Philosophy Football, Janet Rocke with U, Janet - Feedback, Kimbo Slice - The heart of a Lion

Story Links: Joanne visits the New Design High School

Story Links Canadian Rocketboom field correspondent Wayne MacPhail covers the Alien Abduction Festival

Story Links: Alien found on the beach, Water on Mars, Looking for dark matter on the South Pole, Rick Roll direct link

Story Links: Earth Hour, Automatic Dance machine, John Edwards continues to make no endorsement, John Edwards on Rocketboom, Romanian Poet Nichita Stanescu was born today, President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election today, Obama and Clinton continue to bicker, Texas Robo calls down and dirty, Al Gore could still run for president, Al Gore endorsement could seal fate of election, Gamera the flying turtle, Current TV, New Rocketboom Comments, RB field correspondent Andy Carvin visits the kite festival in Washington DC, RB field correspondents, Constantine maries Fausta

Story Links: Save the world from Magibon, Rocketboom, Lisa Nova, Ze Frank, Revision3, Podshow, Make your scene in seconds with Bombay.tv

Story Links: Reggie Watts (music) | Extra: Check back for Saturday episode in Mumbai.