Story Links: Alien found on the beach, Water on Mars, Looking for dark matter on the South Pole, Rick Roll direct link

Story Links: Earth Hour, Automatic Dance machine, John Edwards continues to make no endorsement, John Edwards on Rocketboom, Romanian Poet Nichita Stanescu was born today, President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election today, Obama and Clinton continue to bicker, Texas Robo calls down and dirty, Al Gore could still run for president, Al Gore endorsement could seal fate of election, Gamera the flying turtle, Current TV, New Rocketboom Comments, RB field correspondent Andy Carvin visits the kite festival in Washington DC, RB field correspondents, Constantine maries Fausta

Story Links: Save the world from Magibon, Rocketboom, Lisa Nova, Ze Frank, Revision3, Podshow, Make your scene in seconds with Bombay.tv

story links: Motorcycle Airbags, Motorcycle Airbags v1.0, Creepy Virtual Woman, Creepy non-Virtual Magibon, Twitter Marriage Proposal, Twitter Marriage Acceptance, Proof of Twitter Marriage Acceptance Engagment Ring, The First Twitter Marriage Proposal, The First Twitter Marriage Acceptance, Not a RickRoll, also Not a Rickroll, How To Rick Roll Someone In Real Life, Chocolate Rabbit Meltdown, Death of Chocolate Bunny, The Demise Of The Chocolate Bunny, Google maps shows drug deal, Man is five months pregnant, Cod Liver could ease joint stiffness

Story Links: Potato, The Potato Song, The United Nations declares 2008 International Year of the Potato, The World Potato Congress Incorporated Organization to meet in Christ Church New Zealand in 2009, February 54th is Day of The Potato

Story Links: NYC Union Square Pillow Fight 2008 (music) See Also: Pillow Fight 2007, Pillow Fight 2006

Story links: George Bush speaks at the NYC Economic Club, Joseph Stiglitz, Common trends for time travelers to Germany (via Metafilter), German gas prices reach over $8US per gallon, Dick Cheney disregards public opinion, Stiglitz is expecting $4 trillion needed to restore order in Iraq, Chevy Tahoe in Iran commercial, Yosuke Yamashita plays burning piano (new), BBC report on tent cities springing up in Los Angeles due to economy fallout, An anonymous responder to BBC’s tent city story, Yosuke Yamashita plays burning piano (old), Fire Escapes in NYC, Response to Fire Escapes in NYC

story links: I Can Has Cheezburger founder Eric Nakagawa and CEO Ben Huh discuss the LOLcats phenomenon during the LOLWUT? panel at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival.

Story links: Battledecks contestants improvise conference presentations from previously unseen powerpoint slides. Jeff Tidwell is the moderator. Judges include Erika Hall and Jonathan Grubb. Contestants include George Kelly, Ted Rheingold, Rob Weichert, Jon Armstrong and Anil Dash.

Interview with Austin artist, Steve Brudniak and his latest art work which will be carried to the the International Space Station by private citizen and game developer Richard Garriot.

This scene might look like a crowd of people leaving a lacy keynote but it’s just the beginning of wonderful things to come from SXSW in Austin, Texas. Such as, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. Stay tuned for more than your normal releases this week.

story links: Rocketboom’s Ellie Rountree visits Toy Tokyo in New York City.

story links: Avalanche on Mars, Human Pole Position, Kanye Hands, Moses was on psychedelics, H.R. Pufnstuf, Bush and Cheney wanted for Crimes Against our Constitution, How To Write Humor, Hamburger Dress, Bayonets Thrust into Snow Man by Soldiers at Practice, Easy Do-It-Yourself Ghost, Hibernating Tortoises, Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue, yet another worthless website dot com, Definitely, Desperate Housewives The Musical, Am I Awesome dot com

story links: RB Field correspondent Steve Garfield interviews Paul Gurspan of Special Project Management on recycling construction waste in Boston.

story links: Princes of Antioch, Organ Donor Cards,  Intellectual Property Donor Card, Fail Dogs, Unexplained Force Objects, Chaos Theory, Robert Scoble on FastCompany.tv, Longplayer plays without repetition for over 2984 days

story links: stick-on-eyes, deli-packaged whole human, rinspeed amphibious sports car, 1930’s movie theater of the future, plant-to-twitter plugin, 867-5309 wiki, Ransome, The Epoch of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar, Новый год, Disco Bambina

story links: Brain control gaming headset, Ralph Nader to run for president again, iBand, Entramado, Camouflage photography (via), Stars in Your Lap, with Joanne, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation, Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing and Ze Frank, Earth to meet with fiery demise in 8 billion years, Hungarian car wash commercial, Soviet Big Childrens’ Choir, The Dark Side of Rose

story links: interview with perfumist Douglas Hopkins on the art and science of perfume.

Interview with multimedia production company MediaStorm. For extended interview with Brian Storm, see part II [flash|mov|wmv]

Story Links: Magibon, Dramatic Lemur, Big Black Staring Contest, Charlie Chaplin Table Ballet, Fat Cat on Couch, 4:33 by John Cage, The Pirate Mime

Happy Valentine’s day from the vegetables.

Story Links: Happy 199th birthday to Charles Darwin, Evolution, animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage

Story links: Anonymous stages protests against the Church of Scientology in cities around the world. Rocketboom field correspondents covered the event Andy Carvin - Washington D.C., Steve Garfield - Boston, John Coffey - Philadelphia, Juliette Powell - New York City, Neutral News - Miami, Londanon - London

Story Link: Joanne interviews Jamie O’Shea on his experience traveling through an artificial time warp.

Story links: Leap Year, Improv Everywhere’s Frozen in Grand Central Station, Noisy New York Superbowl roar (fan images), Patriots accused of cheating by US senate (Thanks, Gary V and Bill D!), Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady poses as Tom Brady from the Brady Bunch (via), Internet Traffic Report (Related: Pentagon report on the inetrnet as a weapons system), The Smiling Crator happy face of Mars, STS-122 Space Shuttle Atlantis to begin launch countdown to the International Space Station, NASA Deep Space Nine to beam the Beatles song Across the Universe