story links: swiss mp3 player knife (thanks, kevin!), meteror crashing into moon, shredding videos, moo tube, the sheep market, nokia wi-fi phones for use in US with and without a plan (thanks risto!), rocketboom audience submitted t-shirt voting (to vote: send email with first choice to tee@rocketboom.com), dave winer interviews dvorak a tech writer who lies to his readers for fun, bush hates blind people

story links: german chancellor angela merkel launches videoblog, smidgits, genographic project, jimmy wales of wikipedia under attack from lazy college student, karl rove lays down for bush, karl rove ongoing investigation

story link: webby awards | extended: robert kahn inventor of the internet’s protocol accepts webby lifetime achievement award [mov | wmv]

story links: robert scoble is leaving microsoft for podtech

story links: amanda interviews george soros [georgesoros.com, soroso.org]
extra interview clips:
1. the future of u.s. supremacy [.mov|.wmv],
2. turning iraq into an open society [.mov|.wmv],
3. open society institute [.mov|.wmv],
4. personal involvement in 2004 u.s. presidential election [.mov|.wmv]

story links: rb field correspondent chuck olsen interviews jon rawlinson, founder of the nata village blog in botswana

story links: national day of slayer, satan baby, stanton lavey wedding/theme park, hell michigan (via boing boing), political voodoo dolls, bjork street fighter (via waxy), pet mummy (via boing boing)

story links: the extreme diet coke & mentos experiments, flickr photo set by dorian young on dubai, praying woman struck by lightning, titanic replica made with 5 million matches, man jailed for mouse-in-burrito scam, bacteria eats chocolate and excretes electricity (via digg), teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant (via digg), baby with 3 arms may have surgery, pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit, a diversionary crisis of bush’s gay contrivance, 17-year old boy nearly gets darwin award after trying to use kung fu to stop moving train (via fark), yamaha introduces an airbag for scooter, laptop on fire, m.c. hammer/nascar blogspot

story links: snakes on a plane (thanks again, steed!), nyc virgin mobile mime parade, (thanks, nick!), slap book pro sensor interface, cordless jump rope, wtc ruins made into warship, rb field correspondents steve garfield and andy carvin cover boston net neutrality protests - day of outrage [video1, video2]

story links: dixie dialect quiz (via), missing ebay auction for back to the future delorean replica (video), brand new delorean for sale, broken laptop ebay sale story leads to personal revenge, casey mckinnon’s sci-fi galactacast, performance art chair (video), new yahoo video sharing site (thanks, lucas!), model airplane demo, comments back in business

story link: u.s. war dead honored on memorial day

story links: elke veltman’s giant dress and elevator habitat (thanks theo!), the nooch convex mirror camera attachment, weird tv, scientologists building superpower training center, artist formally known as prince wins sexiest vegetarian award from peta [ref: freeganism], the don’t yawn game, the most expensive house in the world?

story links: rb field correspondent graham walker interviews vasek klouda, footbag czech, footbag world 2006 championships

story links: performance artist lilly mcelroy (thanks, jeff c.), first responder launcher patent application (via the register), announcing rocketboom in hi-def 720p h264 via bittorrent, collection of brilliant dreams that led to human change, tommy’s beard, rocketboom #400

story links: lemurbots strike again [video], (thanks, steed!), white snake coverband, fantasy world news generator, make your own handheld helicopter, houston art car parade (thanks, ralph!), immersion’s touchsense technology combines vibro feedback with finger-position recognition, the cruzin motorized scooter-cooler

story links: syndicate conference 2006, doc searls sr. editor of linux journal, paul gillin, david sifry founder/ceo of technorati, jeff jarvis of buzzmachine, music by six feet under

rb field correspondent chuck olsen interviews mark hosler of negativland [history] on copyright theory

story links: bids on new zealand reach $2,300 (thanks, kevin!), ilove water bottle beauty mags, professional sumo wrestler blog (thanks y.nami!), weather mole google maps hack, heifer.org get livestock to the less fortunate [online gift catalog], (thanks, dooser!), mystical musical balls, muglets (thanks, gandon!)

story links: happy mothers day, the m.i.t. multifunction in-dorm automation system (midas) touch, daryl hannah’s videoblog, art made with knitting, (thanks, sensamea!), make-a-movie with a message generator [1, 2], karl rove said to be indicted on charges of perjury and lying to investigators [ref: kr drinking game], mesh 2.0 conference, syndicate conference (discount with code H0205), beyond broadcast conference, bartending tricks

story link: nyc museum of the moving image [online exhibitions: living room candidate, sloan science cinematheque]

story links: rb south dakota correspondent milt lee covers the big foot riders at wounded knee

story links: time 100 most influential people red carpet gala, jimmy wales, craig newmark, steven colbert, martha stewart, will smith, arianna huffington, al franken, kiki smith, jennifer lopez, sean diddy combs

story links: cheap pet costumes [ref: ebay wedding dress guy), ascii maps (via kottke), itod tv -a reality show about a guy who thinks his life should be a reality show, china makes artificial rain for beijing, m.c. escher school drawing recreation, pope john II died today, breakdancing pope

story links: real life frogger, jump boots, podzinger custom video search, bittorrent lesson leads to best-of, make your own mont blanc quality pen hack, 33 yr old man marries a 104 year old poor woman in malaysia, earthlink (landing page)

story links: month of may mustache, podfume, send in tshirts for amanda, jimmy wales of wikipedia named one of time’s most influential people in the world, in what city do you belong, tshirt design entries extended to may 12th, new rocketboom sponsorship page, earthlink (landing page)