Rocketboom spotlight: Iran: A nation of bloggers by Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, students the Vancouver Film School.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on Iko Toilets (translation: “There Is A Toilet”) in Kenya.

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree attends Research@Intel Day in Mountain View, CA.

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Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree explores the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

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Rocketboom Field Correspondent Cheikh Darou Seck reports on plastic recycling in Senegal.

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree visits the first Consumer Genetics Show in Boston, MA. Extra: Ellie interviews molecular geneticist George Church.

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Rocketboom Spotlight: Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl, widely considered to be the first fully animated film ever made.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp continues his report on The African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping mission in Mogadishu, Somalia. Watch Part 1 here.

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree speaks with Dr. Carl Dietrich, co-founder of Terrafugia, creators of the Transition flying car (or ‘roadable aircraft‘) at the 2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance.

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From 2005: then Rocketboom field correspondent Zadi Diaz interviewed Current TV journalist Laura Ling. This past weekend, Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean hard labor camp for attempting to report on Korean refugees along the North Korea-China border. More coverage: American reporters get “very severe” 12-year sentences designed to scare all foreign journalists, US ‘concern’ for jailed reporters, Laura Ling, Euna Lee, US Journalists, Sentenced To 12 Years In North Korea, Twitter search for Laura Ling, Twitter search for Euna Lee

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree takes a look at the soon to be released Palm Pre. Extras #1, #2.


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Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on The African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Rocketboom Spotlight: ‘Sorry I’m Late‘ by Tomas Mankovsky.

The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies considers the history of Allison Harvard (aka Creepy Chan) a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. Allison on Flickr, Allison on DeviantArt, Allison on MySpace, The Creepiest People on MySpace, Creepy Chan on America’s Next Top Model, Allison Harvard - Cycle 12 Ep 3, ANTM C12 Ep 4 Bonus Clip 6 - Allison, Creepy-chan before & after, America’s Next Top Model Favorite Poll, Blog posts about Creepy Chan, Creepy Chan tributes on DeviantArt, America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 Episode 13 Part 5 (Finale), Dramatic Creepy-chan. For more on internet memes and phenomena visit The MemeDB at KnowYourMeme.com

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree shows us some of her favorite productivity applications. Tweetdeck, CoTweet, Adium, Sizzling Keys, Dropbox, Drop.io, Download Helper, Snapz Pro X, Aviary, Quicksilver, Little Snitch. Music by Podington Bear

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Ellie Rountree interviews Brad O’Farrell creator of ‘Play him off, keyboard cat’. Keyboard Cat on CNN, Keyboard Cat on Time.com, Keyboard Cat on Urlesque, Charlie O’Donnell. Music by Podington Bear.

C64.com, NASA To Give Hubble New Life With Atlantis Mission Launching Today, Hubble Space Telescope, ESA to launch two large observatories to look deep into space and time, ESA: Herschel, ESA: Planck, Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, United States Patent Application: 0060071122 - Full body teleportation system, Magnetic vortex wormhole generator , Cavitating Oil Hyperspace Energy Generator, Scientists Teleport Data on Tiny Scale

Peanut Butter Jelly Time [original Flash version], Peanut Butter Jelly Time [YouTube video], PBJT on Newgrounds.com, PBJT on Family Guy,It’s Peanut Butter Federline!!!, Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Banana Man, or Peanut Butter Jelly Time at the Rays game, Offtopic.com, Buckwheat Boyz, Buckwheat Boyz - Ice cream and cake, Dancing Bananas Collection, Emoticons, Dancing Monkey, Dancing Pickle, Blues Clues, Badgers, Hamster Dance, interior crocodile alligator, Picard YTMND, The Picard Song by Dark Materia, dancing baby, Where the Hell is Matt?, Ze Frank’s How To Dance Properly

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Adam Harvey and Anaid Gomez of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University about Wearable Technology.

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Rocketboom interviews Jordan Seiler about his Public Ad Campaign replacing 120 illegal NPA Outdoor billboards with art in New York City. Related Episode: Brand Jacking and Subvertising. (Thanks to Ronen!)

Number of Pirates Killed by Obama In Two Graphs, Marines’ Hymn [mp3], America and the Barbary Pirates: An International Battle Against an Unconventional Foe, First Barbary War, Google: Mowing with goats, Raindrops splash before they hit the ground, Shreyas Mandre, MIT piano drop Spring 2009 by blackaller, The First MIT Baker House Piano Drop (1972), Our Bombs - Air Strike Tracker, Chainsaw art, Time Magazine: The World’s Most Influential Person, moot wins, Time Inc. loses

The Universal Records Database, Most Images Of ‘Uncle Jesse’ Viewed On A Web Browser At Once, 54 images of Uncle Jesse, Most Tweets Sent To MC Hammer In One Minute Using Cell Phone, Most Pieces Of Tape Taped To Face At Once, Most Playing Cards Incorrectly Guessed In A Row, Most Times Saying “Galaptasaurus” In One Minute, World Record Claims by Caitlin Hill: Most Playing Cards Incorrectly Guessed in a Row, Most Tweets to MC Hammer in One Minute, Most Times Saying Galaptasaurus in One Minute, Most Imperfect Circles Drawn on a Grease Board, Most Times Following/Unfollowing Someone on Twitter in 30 Seconds, World Record for Number of Uncle Jessies on Web Browser, Music by Podington Bear Reply in a video response with your own world records, if you dare.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on a local, Nairobi, Kenya-based effort to recycle plastic bags into fencing poles.