Rocketboom Spotlight: Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny. A reinterpretation of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. Motion graphics by Tomas Nilsson, music: Slagsmålsklubben

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates the rise in boda bodas (or motorcycle taxis) in Kenya.

Internet Scientists Jamiedubs, Elspethjane, and Yatta host a live Know Your Meme internet meme trivia show at the O’Reilly IgniteNYC3 event in New York City. Contestants include Rex Sorgatz, Gavin Purcell, Peter Rojas, Nate Westheimer, Kelly Reeves, Michelle DeForest, Tim Shey, Caroline McCarthy, Irene Polnyi, and Bre Pettis.

story links: rocketboom on twitter, bbq, discardia, hair cut, brain diseases, cisco 7940g, working, incredible horse stunt, weather, mario brothers line rider, escalator skiing, awkward moments on tape, ordering toner, peanuts, robogeek

Rocketboom Tech field correspondent Ellie Rountree asks SXSW attendees what’s in their gadget bags.

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

Director Ben Steinbauer and ‘Winnebago Man’ Jack Rebney speak at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Winnebago Man documentary. Original Winnebago Man video. Music by Podington Bear.

Rocketboom Spotlight:Obama’s Message to Iran.

Rocketboom Spotlight: ‘a micrometer from here’ by Amit Zakai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Dubai Financial Services Authority, Abu Dhabi, World’s Richest City Wants to Be Culture Capital of Arab World, The outstretched palm (Abu Dhabi bails out its neighbour), Dubai’s six-year building boom grinds to halt as financial crisis takes hold, Rights groups, media workers concerned over draft UAE media bill, Has the crisis left Dubai migrant workers out in the cold?, Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down, The Baffling World of Visa Restrictions

Chimp’s stone throwing at zoo visitors was ‘premeditated’, A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution?, The Cones Project, Sorry, this space is taken , Illinois plutocrats are frakkin’ goofy, Benoit Lemoine’s Zipper Tape, The International Space Station to become the second brightest object in the night sky with help from Canadarm2, go away world, leave me alone: ovei personal multimedia environment, pulsewidth’s felt mini synthesizers make soft, squishy music, pul(sew)width, Rolcats: English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats, Pi song YTMND

Rocketboom Tech field correspondent Ellie Rountree visits the Intel Science Talent Search in Washington D.C. Society for Science & The Public, STS 2009 Winners.

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

Rocketboom Spotlight: “The Collector”, by John Douglas Powers

Novel electric signals in plants, Face of the Bard comes to life, S.F. may crack down on ‘flash mob’ antics, French town of Eu to change name because of Google searches, Marie Francoise Gaouyer, The Making of The Petaminx, America becoming less Christian, survey finds, The Mime on Twitter

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp interviews Julius Kasyoka, a reporter of Cameras for Kibera. A Dutch project from the Hot Sun Foundation that gives young Kenyans the tools to be citizen journalists.

FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY, The Boxxy Story, How Boxxy brought the web to its knees, YouTube - boxxybabee’s Channel, Gaia Online, I Am Bored FOAR 4DD1 FRUM BOXXY, 4chan, Foar Everywun From Boxxy, Anonymous on FOX11, 4 X THE BOXXY, Google Trends: Boxxy, Center for Boxxy Control and Restriction, Fake Boxxy on Twitter, Boxxy on Buzzfeed, Fimoculous - Boxxy, Waxy.org - Boxxy

NASDAQ, the Dot Com Bubble, the 401keg Plan, YouTube ADDICT, COPS for Kids!, The Beatles, Popular Music and Society* (MA), The Beatles Last Concert, Blame Ringo - Garble Arch (A Day in the Life of Abbey Road), Welcome to the new gold mines

Who’s afraid of the big bad Tweets? Perhaps Google? Goocam World Map, Town Square, Shake Shack, Waiting in line at Shake Shack. Moving surprisingly slow., Google CEO: Twitter A ‘Poor Man’s Email System’, Google Blog Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, Twitter Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, MT-Hacks: Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google, Mark Carey, Google Buys Jaiku, Follow Rocketboom on Twitter!

Joanne battles her nemesis.

Azumi and David Sunglasses, Drink Up, Energy Hogs, In bad times, seed sales grow, Street signs for Mullet Place keep disappearing, backyard mullet, Megamullet, A Boy, His Balloon & His Mullet, bundesliga, Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers, Red states consume more porn?, Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? [pdf], Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, sms/wink;), As like as two peas, Urban Camouflage, water bottles, tap water, water bottle truck, water graph, seeds, mullet place

Facebook and Bebo risk ‘infantilising’ the human mind, Susan Greenfield, Graph: Internet Population Distributio, The Golden Week has begun, Ladies and Gentlemen, , The world’s largest online social network: QZone, Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3, Ballmer Doesn’t Want to Be ‘Jerry Yang’ of Web Search, The World’s First Garbage Powered Garbage Truck, Facebook Causes Jealousy, Hampers Romance, Study Finds, How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer, Social Networking Harms Health? LOL, Dr Aric Sigman, Cool Stuff: CHANGE Into a Truck Art Print, Charles Darwin/Fairey/Obama “CHANGE” graphics

Alps-like mountains found buried, BOOMBOX, birdfeeder, IPhone-controlled car to demo at Geneva Motor Show, David Lynch on Twitter, Disco Ball Hat, Earmarks, Rocky Mountain News, 1932 Helicron at Lane Motor Museum, Dow Plummets Below 7000, Can Marijuana Tax Provide a Buzz for Economy?, Kamen Rider X, High Five Escalator, Non-reversing mirror, They’re drinking it up in New York, Obama’s Elf (18 second video pun fun), Pica (disorder), RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham, Snowmobile of 1926 — SO AWESOME, 10 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die, North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel: Ugliest Building on Earth?, Despertà 2009 — Welcome to Hell, Kid, Water Jet Flyer, I’m going to be frozen when I die, says X Factor guru Simon Cowell, sweet sweet iphone, Planta fondo oscuro, Amgen Tour of California 2007 stage map, Connor eats the table, Inevitable, illuminati, Crop Circle - Savernake Forrest, The New York Stock Exchange, No Trespassing, Online Fraud, Simon Cowell, Liquid Nitrogen Tank behind building 9

Alive In Baghdad interviews Hassan Fadhel Allah al-Hussaini, the editor of Rayat al-Arab newspaper in Baghdad. He offers a personal perspective on the wide variety of dangers facing journalists in Iraq.

The Sun Newspaper, 04/12/08, ROCKETS Magazine, Vince with Slap Chop (Long version), Candy ad, Rejoice Comb Ad, Clever Yoga Ad, Kill Bill ad, Ballet school ad, Butt Jobs ad, 40 Advertisements that Grab your Attention, Light Criticism by Steve Lambert, Light Criticism on Rocketboom, The Bubble Project, The Bubble Project on Rocketboom, Banksy, There’s no such thing as good publicity, Sale ends today, Napalm, The Decapitator, Decapitator: londonpaper hijack @ old street tube 30/01/2008, Transport for London in Buy Nothing Day action?, Tube Ads are good , Adbusters, Adbuster _ Buy Nothing Day, Buy Nothing Day 2007, Add Art

Rocketboom Spotlight: Tomt and I by Daz Spencer Lovesey and Joe Barcham. Produced by: Go Forward Films and Dave Lankester.

Cuba Switching to Linux, Global PC Sales Fall, First Time In Six Years, Why netbooks are killing Microsoft, Han Solo in Carbonite, no, it’s Guacamole!, He’s no guac to me dead, US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next, Report: Nearly 75% of ex-Bush officials looking for jobs are unemployed, Afghan TV set to unveil model contest, Bottom-up approach needed in Afghanistan: report, Audio Modulated Thunder Music Pleases Thor, AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE (the Sticker). Music by Jen Scaturro, UpitUp