story links: Motorcycle Airbags, Motorcycle Airbags v1.0, Creepy Virtual Woman, Creepy non-Virtual Magibon, Twitter Marriage Proposal, Twitter Marriage Acceptance, Proof of Twitter Marriage Acceptance Engagment Ring, The First Twitter Marriage Proposal, The First Twitter Marriage Acceptance, Not a RickRoll, also Not a Rickroll, How To Rick Roll Someone In Real Life, Chocolate Rabbit Meltdown, Death of Chocolate Bunny, The Demise Of The Chocolate Bunny, Google maps shows drug deal, Man is five months pregnant, Cod Liver could ease joint stiffness

Story Links: The Shama’iya district in far east Baghdad is currently undergoing a major sewage disaster as polluted water fills the streets, and permeates the air. Field Report by Alive in Baghdad.

Story Links: Potato, The Potato Song, The United Nations declares 2008 International Year of the Potato, The World Potato Congress Incorporated Organization to meet in Christ Church New Zealand in 2009, February 54th is Day of The Potato

Story Links: NYC Union Square Pillow Fight 2008 (music) See Also: Pillow Fight 2007, Pillow Fight 2006

Story links: George Bush speaks at the NYC Economic Club, Joseph Stiglitz, Common trends for time travelers to Germany (via Metafilter), German gas prices reach over $8US per gallon, Dick Cheney disregards public opinion, Stiglitz is expecting $4 trillion needed to restore order in Iraq, Chevy Tahoe in Iran commercial, Yosuke Yamashita plays burning piano (new), BBC report on tent cities springing up in Los Angeles due to economy fallout, An anonymous responder to BBC’s tent city story, Yosuke Yamashita plays burning piano (old), Fire Escapes in NYC, Response to Fire Escapes in NYC

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits the first morning of Spring (music).

story links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx, NY.

story links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. The Elephants arrive in New York.

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Encore: Joanne travels across New York City backwards through time. Eclipse Solaire by vinc2-exoplanete (music)

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Miniature City. Inspired by Little People. Music by Drew.

Story: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Fire Escape. Music by PQPiano3

story links: I Can Has Cheezburger founder Eric Nakagawa and CEO Ben Huh discuss the LOLcats phenomenon during the LOLWUT? panel at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival.

Story links: Battledecks contestants improvise conference presentations from previously unseen powerpoint slides. Jeff Tidwell is the moderator. Judges include Erika Hall and Jonathan Grubb. Contestants include George Kelly, Ted Rheingold, Rob Weichert, Jon Armstrong and Anil Dash.

story links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Salvador Dali and Gala

Interview with Austin artist, Steve Brudniak and his latest art work which will be carried to the the International Space Station by private citizen and game developer Richard Garriot.

This scene might look like a crowd of people leaving a lacy keynote but it’s just the beginning of wonderful things to come from SXSW in Austin, Texas. Such as, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. Stay tuned for more than your normal releases this week.

story links: New York City 1911-Present, by Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage, NYPL Digital Gallery, video of the Empire State Building, music by Dosh

story links: Rocketboom’s Ellie Rountree visits Toy Tokyo in New York City.

story links: Avalanche on Mars, Human Pole Position, Kanye Hands, Moses was on psychedelics, H.R. Pufnstuf, Bush and Cheney wanted for Crimes Against our Constitution, How To Write Humor, Hamburger Dress, Bayonets Thrust into Snow Man by Soldiers at Practice, Easy Do-It-Yourself Ghost, Hibernating Tortoises, Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue, yet another worthless website dot com, Definitely, Desperate Housewives The Musical, Am I Awesome dot com

story links: RB Field correspondent Steve Garfield interviews Paul Gurspan of Special Project Management on recycling construction waste in Boston.

story links: Princes of Antioch, Organ Donor Cards,  Intellectual Property Donor Card, Fail Dogs, Unexplained Force Objects, Chaos Theory, Robert Scoble on FastCompany.tv, Longplayer plays without repetition for over 2984 days

story link: Ransom.

story links: artist Brian Feldman celebrates Leap Year Day.

story links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Andy Warhol

story links: stick-on-eyes, deli-packaged whole human, rinspeed amphibious sports car, 1930’s movie theater of the future, plant-to-twitter plugin, 867-5309 wiki, Ransome, The Epoch of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar, Новый год, Disco Bambina