Dallas Building Demolition, Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition, Dancers Blinded By Lasers At Russian Rave, Principe de fonctionnement d’un laser, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin, Red Square, Moscow, Ophthalmic eyepatch, Inside John McCain’s Head Again, Iran Sucks at Photoshop, Global Warming May Cause Kidney Stones, Climate Science behind Kidney Stones and Global Warming, ALL UTIL. INCLUDED!!! THIS IS THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!, 10 Misspelled and Bizarre eBay Auctions, 51 Things You Aren’t Allowed to See on Google Maps, Rye Playland

Send Your Name to the Moon, Creepy Japanese Crawling Robot, 2012 Supplies - Everything needed to survive 2012, Escape 2 Earth - The Novel!, Save the Clock Tower Flyer, More Fireworks, SETI Adopt a Scientist

Bastille Day, Louis VIII of France, About Billy the Kid, Large denominations of United States currency, Instant Origami, Internet Based Political “Meta-Party” For Massachusetts , Large Hadron Collider Countdown, for the Large Hadron Collider, Easy Boiled-Egg Shaper, USB Necktie, Chicago Man Stakes Claim to Outer Space (May, 1949), iPhone2 by David Jr

G8, 34th G8 Summit in Hokkaidō, Japan, The Cost of Food: Facts and Figures, Food Prices on the Rise, World Commodity Prices from 2000-2008, Percent change in food prices from 2007 to 2008, The Rising Demand for Commodities, Does Ethanol Deserve the Blame for Rising Food Prices?, Surface Air Temperature Increase 1960 to 2060, Income Spent on Food 2006, The World’s Growing Food-Price Crisis , Rich country leaders wrestle with shaky world economy

What Is The Oldest YouTube Video?, Me at the Zoo Uploaded on April 23 2005, The McFly 2015 Website, Back to the Future McFly Sneakers Unboxed Going for $2,000, Save The Clock Tower, Back To The Future Prop Collection on eBay, Denmark Is The World’s Happiest Nation, 10 unconventional scholarships, ultimate swing tricks, swing tricks, The Grass Scanner

A week before the release of the new 3G iPhone, several people have formed a line outside of the Apple 5th Avenue cube store in New York City in hopes of obtaining a World Record for the most time spent waiting in line for a purchase.

Milky Way Loses Two Arms, Jim Abbott, Lt. Dan, Galileo, Copernicus, Copernicanism, Fixed Earth Believers, Keanu Reeves at Thespian Net, There’s A Bomb On The Bus What Do You Do What Do You Do?, Knit Yarn Spock Ears, Explosion containment net Patent, Half RV, Half Houseboat, Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International, Ian Usher Sold His Life On eBay for Three Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Dollars, Ian Usher on Ustream, Instant Origami

Joanne interviews the creator and composer behind Podington Bear, artist and musician Chad Crouch. additional story links: Hush Records, The Decemberists, This American Life, Esperanza Spalding, Daytrotter

story links: chaos theory (via), gaston julia, julia set, benoit mandelbrot, madelbrot set, fractals, earthquake predictions chaos, darpa security chaos, artificial intelligence chaos, pathology chaos, cardiology chaos, invader set

Spore Creature Creator Sporepedia, Japanese Water Powered Car Mod, The Genepax Water to Hydrogen Fuel System, Amphibious snake-like robot ACM-R5, via GeekAlerts, ‘Lost’ Amazon Tribe Wasn’t Lost, Original Rocketboom Blog Post on the ‘Uncontacted’ Tribe, Michelangelo ‘hid secret code in Sistine Chapel frescoes, , University of Texas at Austin, Air hockey playing robot, Simpsons Map Mod for Quake III, US will remove ‘terror’ tag on North Korea, Ads on Wedding Cards and Selling Twitter Backgrounds, The Image Fulgurator, Rocketboom Wiki Page on Barack Obama, Rocketboom Wiki Page on John McCain

Story Links: Les Androides street performers, Highest Popping Toaster In World, Spinout on an escalator, El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro Missile Silos For Rent or Lease, Asimo the Robot Dances, Tay Zonday Discusses Peak Oil, Inside John McCain’s Head, Rocketboom Wiki Page on Barack Obama, Rocketboom Wiki Page on John McCain, Inuit Throat Singers, of Cape Dorset, Nunuvut, Canada, Classic Rocketboom episode on Throat Singers by field correspondent Milt Lee

Story Links: Wednesday hump day of Woden and Mercury, 25 is the smallest square that can be written as the sum of two squares, Magibon, Ian Usher is selling his whole life on ebay, Aucution:, Onion Ring Peace sign, Smiling French Fry, Jesus Figure in a ptoato chip, Evil Satanic Long John Silvers Crumb, Jesus Image on a Rock, Bullwinkle in a pickle, Yellow Seek and Find Yellow Drum Machine Bot, The Trons, Instruments made out of cardboard, Leave it to Roll-Oh

Story Links: Disappearing Ice on Mars, Sublimation Explained, The Great Planet Debate, One Red Paperclip (the book), RealSnailMail is Real Mail via RFID chips on Real Snails, Where The Hell Is Matt 2008, Image Credits: icecubes, mars animation, mars ice cap, Pluto a planet again, spirit and odyssey, phoenix, reconaissance orbiter, esa orbiter, mars global surveyor

On the red carpet of the 2008 Webby Awards with Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live, Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger, Ludacris of WeMix.com, Shawn Hardin of Flock, Will I Am of the Black Eyed Peas, and Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, earlier Rocketboom coverage of the Webby Film and Video Awards.

Battle of the Browsers continued, Firefox vs Internet Explorer, Classic Rocketboom episode from Firefox Release 2, Music Invisible Is Not Invincible by Podington Bear

Story Links: Leopold Bloom Bloomsday, Oshea’s in Dublin live cam, Deep sea creature, Spore demo by Will Wright, Download Spore Creature Creator, Spore creature creator demo screen captures, Caring Continuum Chart, Childrens drawings into photos by Yeondoo Jung, Rocketboom field correspondent John Coffy covers Odunde, Pluto demoted (Rocketboom archive), Pluto named Plutoid, Framed share of Disney and Atari, Screen Actors Guild Set for possible strike, Firefox 3

Story Links: Iraq Tag Galaxy, Iraq on Arc, Iraq on Kartoo, Iraq Newsmap, Obleek Iraq War Coalition Fatalities, Iraq on Flickr, Iraq on News Spectrum, Iraq on Bigspy, Iraq on Summize, Iraq on Stack, Iraq on Think Map Visual Thesaurus, Iraq on Google News Cloud, Iraq on Searchme Visual search, Music: Pythagorean Theorem by Podington Bear

Story Links Wiimbledon 2008, Barcade, music by Podington Bear, Wiimbledon 2007 by Rocketboom

Story Links: Winners of the Webbys 2008 Online Film and Video Awards Including interviews with Richter Scales, 30 Second Bunnies Theatre , Tay Zonday, DailyGreens, Diggnation, Totally Rad Show, You Suck at Photoshop, Wainy Days Music: Podington Bear. See also, Rocketboom at the Webbys 2007

story inks: robert millis of american microphone interviews 1st lt. paul rieckhoff founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, george bush responds to a question about private contractors, audit finds u.s. hid actual cost of iraq projects, contractors in iraq make costs balloon

story links: Blackwater, Representative Waxman on Blackwater, DynCorp, KBR private contractor job listings, Army Pay 2007, Additional figures on security contractors, Council on Foreign Relations, memo to Oversight Committee October 1st 2007, Co-written by Hal MacDermot

What is Epistemology?, Thales says Everything is Water, Anaximander says Everything is Air, Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth , Skepticism entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The New England Skeptical Society, music by podington bear (nature kid), image credits: leap, annonymous, god hands, puppeteer, brain in vat, baby hands, bre, brain messages, scary girl, poltergeist kid, trees, fame guy, brain neurons, space pics (1, 2)

How to Siphon Gas from a Newer Vehicle, Paintings by Hitler purchased and remixed, for the show If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, Body Vandals, slam!, Running into the garage door, Kid vs Garage Door, Inner city snail, Painting Chewing Gum revisited, Rome sacked by Geiseric the Lame, Big Plushies on the Streets of Hong Kong, Wall Street Bull, Signs of Spring by Mark Jenkins

The Internet Bench from Gdansk, Poland, The Cat Residence, Watching Plants Grow, Watching Pigs Grow, The Church of St. George located Sofia, Bulgaria, the cyber-enabled single crystal X-ray diffraction facility at Case Western Reserve University, Bridge in Umeå, Sweden, D & D Family Billiards in Thorndale, Pennsylvania, Universeum in Göteborg, Sweden, Plusnet Customer Support Center, Ustream, Justin.tv, Real Tokyo Life, SpaceVidcast, Nekomimi Lisa, KCJJ Raw, Live From The UK, Austincast, Zane Savage Live, Laura News, Louiscast, Music by Podington Bear

Story Links: Eating a burger, NASA’s Phoenix Lands and is ready to report, Is this the way to Amarillo?, Cold fusion created in labs, Weezer Music Video Meme Pork & Beans, Video Pizza, 1979 performance of Adrian Mumsey’s The Lost Sheep, Wearable Motorcycle, Two-wheel Uno motorcycle, Mr. Toledano’s photo galley of bankrupt offices, Babies who get jumped, Horse Dance, We are the World Japan