Pair with same first, last name to wed, How to Go to Mars–Right Now!, China and Russia to Mars, $18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov website, NYPD spends neary $1M on Typewriters, July eclipse is best chance to look for gravity anomaly , The Sims 3, Gundam 30th Anniversary, Gundam RX-78-2 in Odaiba, Gundam in Odaiba, io9: 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots

Salem Witch Trials, Henry Allingham: World’s Oldest Man Dies At 113, Henry Allingham image, Family Tree 1, 2, Flag of the United Kingdom, Walter Breuning, Great Falls, Montana, The Fall Guy, Caught on Tape! Goo Invades Alaskan Waters , or WTF Is That!?: 12-Mile Biological Goo In Arctic, Unidentified Biological “Goo,” 15 Miles Long, Creeps Down Alaskan Coast, Caught on Tape! Goo Invades Alaskan Waters, Jumbo squid invade San Diego shores, spook divers, World Snail Racing Championships, Mars Science Laboratory: Send Your Name to Mars, Walter Cronkite, 92, Dies; Trusted Voice of TV News

Apollo 11, Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr., Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, Jethro Tull, Benefit (album), Beef Posters, Know Your Meme: Vince Shlomi (ShamWow, Slap Chop) (2008), My Sunshine by Nikola Uzunovski, Space Station Is Near Completion, Maybe the End, Save The Space Station dot com

Unimate, robot assembly line, Boston Dynamics Big Dog, Dustbot, Cell Phones That Listen and Learn, Computer learns sign language by watching TV, How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language, MIT developing fabrics capable of taking pictures, Gundam over Tokyo

Pope John III, Breakdancing for the Pope, Gene Tests Confirm Identity, Possible Eye Color of Copernicus, Extreme alarm clock, I try to put on a happy face, Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space , New Salamander Discovered Near Georgia Busy Road

Commodore 64, The TI-99/4A Home Computer Page, squat part 2 （ヒンズースクワットをする犬と人）, CERN - The Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Rap

Jan Hus, Hussitism and the heritage of Jan Hus, Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution, (via Slashdot), Facebook group results for ‘Stephen Hawking’, HOW MUCH INFORMATION 2003?, The Sims 3, Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ella Morton, Rocketboom LA Talent Search, Twitter Search results for #iranelection, Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election, NASA: LRO Sends its First Lunar Images to Earth

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.

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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!