story links: aibo flash mob, rome bans goldfish bowls, nova archives are available for free online, bill dan on rock balancing (thanks, john!), all u.s. new issue passports to use RFID chips, arcologists neutopia promotes arcosanti for new orleans (via)(thanks, steed!), zombie attack mob, the mp3 experiment (zombie scene in nyc) by improv everywhere (thanks, topher!), if fox had been around throughout history, super smash brothers

story links: one year anniversary; music by cjacks: visualizer (via)

story links: dog hair for sale, whowouldbuythat.com (correction!), cory doctorow’s literary works, auto-restart rss feed for serial content by feed hoster, new study on computer on/off time, new method application uses web pages to teach online, alternate tom delay mug shots (thanks, james!), second-life protester poster, mad magazine cover flash gallery (via), romantic encounters may endanger space missions (via), fleetwood mac, anthropomorphipod obsession, on bullshit, edible moon buggies (via), t-shirts on sale (finally!) at the rocketboom trade center, rb itunes subscription

story links: tom delay mug shot, blue tights (superman film videoblog), kong (king kong film videoblog), babots [video: 1, 2]. animatronic ape head (via), elizabeth kickok’s jell-o san francisco [video] (via), extreme pumpkins carving, personal helicopter, atari

story links: second life, make magazine hang out [blog post, land link], maxx monde

story links: north korea arirang festival videos by dan schorr (via), doctors sue bloggers (via), snowboarding on asphalt with freeboard (thanks, dooser!), twenty percent of human genes patented, laser printers create traceable ink patterns on all your documents (used by the federal government), google kai (via), corporate takeover contest entries (via), current tv, sony bravia advert [video](via)

story link: makeup mania: the makeup trailer - 182 allen st., new york city

story links: sorry gatta go dot com, portable internet video, playmobil security check-in (thanks, blair!), psp box sells for $202 on ebay (thanks, steed!), macgyver in 2008, general zod in 2008, may you live in interesting times festival of creative technology (thanks, gordon!), painted horse from artmap, telephone rboom.com, rb itunes one-click, rb bittorrents, rocketboom h264/mp4, pyramid by aardvark

story links: apple video ipod released, steve jobs’ presentation (thanks, mauro!), president of the log cabin republicans patrick guerriero (thanks, tom and stephen!), global entertainment and media summit connecticut, noise-con 2005: dolphins sing batman, converge south, dave slusher of evil genius chronicles podcast, video recording by chris daniel, hello kitty diddy (via), g4’s attack of the show, rss feed to auto sync rocketboom with video ipod

stroy links: four hour rule (via), co-workers on vacation, (thanks, jeff!), delicious popular, 25 words that can hurt your resume [unidentified copy by alan so], rocketboom t-shirts, terry tate in the office, reebok, national recycling coalition

story links: earthquake disaster worst in history on record for pakistan [local blogger lahore and donation roundup; videos], boston red sox end season, new york yankees carry on, darpa grand challenge, weblogs, inc. sells to aol for $25mil, weblogs.com sells to verisign for $2.3mil, waxy moves to yahoo, converge south, dave winer, duncan black (atrios), ed cone, second life convention, arc quenching bottles fail on a 500kilo-volt circuit disconnect switch (thanks, alek!), chris columbus day, dynamic terrain by janisland (via)

update: yahoo launches podcast directory

story links: cup stacking bot, second life community convention ‘05, online video tools, ning, complete hoder interview in .mp3 format (video), jousting captured by andy carvin, music: super mario remix: three mushroom dances, rocketboom t-shirts, theodk

story links: republican tom delay is Indicted on a new charge of money laundering by a texas grand jury , tanya andersen countersues the record industry for p2p related violations, u.s. biological weapon “rabbit fever” was found on washington d.c. mall where protesters gathered last week, web 2.0 conference sold out, internet archive.org and yahoo to scan public domain books in university libraries, u.s. space tourist gregory docks with the international space station, from the good news blog: cancer center to offer free housing to patients, fuel saving breakthrough, hero politician plays down rescue, i/o brush

story links: rocketboom opml xml, opml, jenny holzer’s “for the city” text projections, minutemen border patrol seek out illegal aliens, paul mccartney supports lexus hybrid with a song [article, lexus hybrid], brian wilson of the beach boys will call you for katrina donations, israel threatens to attack iran’s nuclear program, future me, more bombings in iraq, linux

story links: rocketboom in uk guardian by jeff jarvis [publication, reprint, commentary], darpa motorcycle bot (via), google video 2.0 is a switch to flash [historical commentary], bittorrent receives 8.7 million [software, file-footage], prodigem api auto-seeds torrents, rocketboom torrent page, find-a-human ivr phone system chart [portable text version], converge south

story links: second life virtual world, kasi nafus a.k.a. nephilaine protagonist of pixel dolls, documentary footage by pierce portocarrero (thanks, jerry!)

stroy links: blue light special star disk nasa footage on spacetelescope.org (thanks, james), homespun hp photo commercial (thanks, luc), the way things go, honda cog commercial remake of the way things go, uk 118 commercial remake of the honda cog commercial remake of the way things go (via), fidel castro strohs commercial, public domain music: beep-beep, why do stars twinkle from space songs

story links: lobster arcade vending machine (via), japanese vending machines, zadi diaz [katrina mashup video with greenday, nytimes article, nytimes link generator, bugmenot ], the big pink bunny, warner brother loonitics contemporary cartoons, blue rice, (via), knife and fork kitchen combo gadget, the men of the internet (via), apple classic ii

story links: amanda held at gunpoint, 28 hours a day, frogger by adult swim via waxy, hurricane rita coverage

story links: hossein derakhshan (aka: hoder), photo blog, wired article; an interview in central park - part 1 of 3: nuclear stand-off with iran

extra: **update: part 2 of 3: hoder on censorship mov | wmv
part 3 of 3+: (look for several more parts throughout the day on wednesday)

**final update: Complete Archive of entire interview in .mp3 format

story links: luca mori near parma discovers ancient italian villa with google earth, tom cruise oprah attack, nasa southern aurora time lapse, burger king spinning whirl ice-cream spells allah sideways, steve ballmer claims he’ll “win the web”, bill gates said uh, the sword of angels by john marco

story links: the man who told dick cheney to go fuck himself (1,2 thanks, bhob!), george bush apology, impeach bush, french car that runs on compressed air (thanks, daniel!), google earth reveals sensitive korean war data (thanks, steed!), the pixel roller (thanks, bob!), a prairie ho companion: garrison keillor the liberal talkshow host attempts to sue rex the free-thinking blogger (thanks, chuck!), vlog europe, devo remake (thanks, kenyatta!)

extra: testrun new rocketboom bittorrent seeding at prodigem, 中国翻译 / today’s episode translated into chinese