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

story links: Brain control gaming headset, Ralph Nader to run for president again, iBand, Entramado, Camouflage photography (via), Stars in Your Lap, with Joanne, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation, Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing and Ze Frank, Earth to meet with fiery demise in 8 billion years, Hungarian car wash commercial, Soviet Big Childrens’ Choir, The Dark Side of Rose

story links: Paul Dateh (aka the Hip-Hop Violinist) interprets Joanne’s day.

story links: Footage from the February 20-21 2008 total lunar eclipse captured with a Red One digital camera. (thanks, Ian!) More to come later.

story links: interview with perfumist Douglas Hopkins on the art and science of perfume.

Interview with multimedia production company MediaStorm. For extended interview with Brian Storm, see part II [flash|mov|wmv]

Story Links: Magibon, Dramatic Lemur, Big Black Staring Contest, Charlie Chaplin Table Ballet, Fat Cat on Couch, 4:33 by John Cage, The Pirate Mime

Story Link: Talk:The Ransom

Happy Valentine’s day from the vegetables.

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports from Kenya on the status of the election crisis. For more information see the Rocketboom wiki on Kenya.

Story Links: Happy 199th birthday to Charles Darwin, Evolution, animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage

Story links: Anonymous stages protests against the Church of Scientology in cities around the world. Rocketboom field correspondents covered the event Andy Carvin - Washington D.C., Steve Garfield - Boston, John Coffey - Philadelphia, Juliette Powell - New York City, Neutral News - Miami, Londanon - London

Story Link: Joanne interviews Jamie O’Shea on his experience traveling through an artificial time warp.