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

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

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

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.

Did NASA shoop an image of the Space Shuttle? Does it really matter? NASA faked Shuttle picture!, Discover Blogs: NASA FAKED A SHUTTLE IMAGE!!!!!

There’s been only one US President to order an attack against pirates? Seriously?

Grounation Day, Haile Selassie (video), Hernan Cortes Arrives, LOL Jesus, God on Facebook, Facebook profile market, Crisscrossing the Earth with subterranean tunnels at ballistic missile speeds (via), The Deepest Hole, The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Welcome to Caitlin Hill, Caitlin on YouTube, Caitlin on Twitter. Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, Harvard College Observatory, The girl who named a planet , Pluto (Disney Character) History, International Astronomical Union, Clearing the neighbourhood, Illinois: Pluto Is a Planet, New Mexico Legislature: Declaring Pluto a Planet.

The 2009 NYC Pillow Fight held on Wall Street in New York City. Music: Revolve by hisboyelroy. Also see Rocketboom coverage of the 2008, 2007, and 2006 Pillow Fights.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Tokugawa Ietsuna, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokugawa Hidetada, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa dynasty, Japan, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Volcker Says He Is Confident Capitalism Will Survive, George Soros, www.MichaelJacksonForSale.Com, Prepare for a climate-changed world, say engineers , AWESOME Circus trick!! (Трюк с козой НЕВЕРОЯТНО), Pantalaine Couch Dress, Joplin Resident Discharges Gun Over DTV Converter Box Confusion, Swedish Train Vandalized As Part Of Art Thesis, The snake-like monster of Borneo, Music by UpItUp