Story Links: Memorial Day, Henry C Welles, Waterloo, New York, Comparative death rates of selected US wars from 1775 - 2008, Documented civilian deaths from Iraq War, Military and civilian war related deaths through the ages
Joanne visits Peter Gabriel’s human rights video organization Witness.org in Brooklyn, NY.
Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.
Story Links: Muto graffiti animation in Buenos Aires by BLU, Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? on today’s mail-in primary voting, Study on trust in the US federal government, German speaking Rocketboom field correspondent /SMS ;) speaks with riz khan of Al Jazeera at the St. Gallen Symposium, Aluminum, Shrubbery Camouflage Helmet, Number of horns on a unicorn multiplied by the answer to life, the universe and everything furlongs, How many cannibals can your body feed quiz, Study links cell phone use near children with hyperactivity and other behavioral problems
Story Links: Icahn has Cheeseburger (shareholder but not board member) to overtake Yahoo! board, Yahoo! Board of Directors, Who is your Yahoo Pick?, Moot, 4chan (photo), Jay Maynard, Tron Guy (video, image), Michael Arrington, Techcrunch (photo), Admiral Ackbar, Mon Calamari commander of the Rebel Fleet, Tay Zonday, Tazonday.com (photo), George Bush, soon to be former politician, Michael Buckley, What the Buck, Tom Dickson, Will it Blend
(photo), Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left (photo), Nemo, Disney, Including music by Podington Bear - Hook line and Slinker and Bobby Birdman, , How to eat bananas by Sara M. Brattman, New York Times article on Aya Tsukioka and Urban Camouflage in Japan, colored pencils in the woods (via), Makeup? mountain in Peru, The virtual 2-D girlfriend projection, NYU’s ITP Show Spring 2008, Door to Hell in Uzbekistan, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a bottle Organ, Dragostea Din Tei in G
Story Links: NYC Videoblogging Meetup featuring Jake and Amir. Music by Podington Bear.
U.S. declares war on Mexico, Mexican-American War, General Ulysses Grant, Stephen Colbert’s Birthday, Stephen Colbert for President 2008!, , Democrats revive Internet Freedom and Non-discrimination Act, David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report, Foreclosure auction on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch canceled, Sail-bot to cross the Atlantic, The Emergency Party Button, John McCain’s hiding in your news open, God Sends His Only Severe Thunderstorm To Jenna Bush’s Crawford Wedding, Terrafugia’s Drivable Airplane, おおっと！
JFK Air Guitar fetches $5000 on Ebay, The End of Everything, Phoenix to Land on Mars, The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, via Space.com, Red Giants, Kitts Peak National Observatory, Astronomers begin search for ‘vanishing’ stars, Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day, Extra Joanne’s Best Alternate Take
Final ROFLCon video for 2008, Kyle Macdonald of One Red Paperclip talks with Sarah Meyers of Pop17 about his book. Also, help Kyle find out who these guys are at who are these guys dot com. Music from Podington Bear. SEE ROFLCON VIDEO POOL.
Story Links: David Weinberger at ROFLcon with a lecture on fame, Music: Flutterbee by Podington Bear.
Jason Scott of Textfiles walks us through a history of online linguistics at ROFLCon 2008, Special appearance by Steve Garfield, Music: Pives and Flarinet by Podington Bear.
Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts at ROFLCon, Biographical information about Chuck Norris, The Book about The Truth About Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris sues Chuck Norris Facts, Vin Diesel Facts, Snakes on a Plane at IMDB, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Chuck Norris in Delta Force 2, Something Awful Forums, College Humor, William Morris Agency
Story Links: Jay Maynard the Tron Guy at the ROFLcon conference, MIT. The classic tron costume page that led everyone awry. Where The Hell Is Matt? Special music thanks to podington bear, ham radio by rtpalovich, Tron on ebay, Tron Arcade, Tron Trailer (redux), Tron (imdb)
Story Links: Trojan Horse, NASA awards new lunch services contract to SpaceX, Soyuz TMA-11 goes ballistic , Obamacrombie and Fitch Gate, The REEM-B Robot, Dean Kamen’s Slightshot Water Purifier, Pixel Spout, Recycled Cell Phone Art (via Bill Pettit), Cloned Animal Meat Coming Soon, Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel, ROFLCon
Story Links Happy Earth Day! See Also: RB field correspondent Drew Olanoff dumpster dives for recyclables and Earth Day quotes.
Rocketboom field correspondent Juliette Powell talks with comic book artists Ramon Perez, Mark Brooks, Romain Hugault, and N. Steven Harris at the 2008 New York Comic Con. Music: Sunset Stroll Into The Woods by Podington Bear.
story links: Joanne interviews Shaun Waterford who plans on breaking the world record for most days living underwater.
Story Links: Sark Island changing to democracy, Island sold on Second Life, CBS CEO gets major raise as ratings tumblr, Food Prices Have Doubled or trippled, Reverse evolution may have been witnessed as 2 species turn back into one, Nice looking Phone Watch, Arbor day, Dinner in the Sky, 170 holes in Earth, Cyborg June Beetles, Wouldnt you love to ride in my beuatiful balloon?, Horse Sled Waggon, Rotators, There is an alegator snapping turle in japan, Brain scanner, Descartes, Tomorrow is busy
story links: Images of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on Flickr by Zipckr, by TimTom, by Image Editor, Faces of Death nuclear bomb test, Concerned Hawaiians file suit to stop the LHC from blowing up the world, The assassination of John F Kennedy vs The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Balloon Clothes, The Jump Bike, The Evolution of Space Debris, Satellite to be junked because lunar flyby is patented, 162 Million websites on the Internet, Stonehenge, ‘Breakthrough’ at Stonehenge dig, Ronald McDonald insanity, What’s gonna [Donald] Donna, Donald MAD, Laugh now but one day we will meat at McDonalds
story links: Dictionaraoke, Disney movies in 3D, Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone covers the creepy new Segway RMP Robot, Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track, Osamu Tezuka’s Galaxy Boy Troop puppet space opera of the early 1960’s, Seed Magazine interview with Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals, Chain Surfing, She without arm he without leg ballet, Kitty Tennis, Send Queen Rania of Jordan your stereotypes
story links: Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff talks to computer security expert Ed Felten of Princeton University and Freedom-to-Tinker on the state of electronic voting machines.
story links: Signs of Spring, Inflatable Animals, 6000 sq mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is breaking off, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Melting Icecaps may trigger more volcanic eruptions, WWF Paper Dispenser, Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet, Princeton’s Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit, Psychology of Marketing, The Potato Song, Flickr Photo Credits (Eggybird, Rob Lee, JasonTromm)
