Story links: Balloon Boy, Playing Dead, Shepard Fairey Lied, TSA Agents Took My Son, Response to “TSA Agents Took My Son”, Nasa: world will not end in 2012, Institute for Human Continuity

Expedition 21/Space Flight Participant Soyuz Docking to International Space Station, NASA’s LCROSS CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, Human Population Calculator, List of countries by population, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Unfair Robot Fight, Original Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings, Kangaroo, New friend joins Winnie-the-Pooh

Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia, NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights, Rocket launch prompts calls of strange lights in sky, Black Brant, Milan Happy Clouds by Stuart Semple, Is Condensed Water the Salvation for Developing Countries?, DewPointe by AWS, Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings (via Slashdot), The Mashmallow Test, Glitch: Designing Imperfection

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

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

Motoman industrial robot cooks okonomiyaki, See-saw bike, NASA Mars photo leaked - wood found on mars!, NASA, Edna Parker dies at 115, Portugal, Supercentenarian, Oldest people, Maria de Jesus, The Big Picture by Helen Marshall, Arthur James Bunce, NY Times Obama Newspaper - Brand new - never opened, Chris Christmas Rodriguez

What will life be like in the Year 2008?, Steve Rubel: The End of Tangible Media is Clearly in Sight, Ji Lee’s Dead Bull, Space Shuttle Mission ST-126, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Steve Bowen and Shane Kimbrough to spacewalk, Amazon Kindle & Sony eBook, Finger Forks, Hands Help, Macbook Pros and Playstation Controllers in Windows Vista Ads, Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect

Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover Spirit, MarsPhoenix on Twitter, Spirit, hit by a regional dust storm, has reached lowest power levels ever,  Oppy is heading out on a road trip, Cassini Saturn, Interview with Veronica McGregor, Amazing Japanese Zoo Training Drill With Fake Rhino, Captain Fantastic claims world’s longest name, Teenager’s new name is fantastic , Proposition R - Renaming the Oceanside Water Treatment Plant, City of San Francisco, NY Times Obama Newspaper $1000 on eBay, New York Times: Online Can’t Save Her Now, New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes, NYTCo Takes $166 Million Writedown For New England Media Group; Faces $400M Refinancing, Vote Chris Christmas Rodriguez

NASA TV to Air Station Crew Messages on Voting, 10th Anniversary , Sunsets and Plantbots, Singapore’s Ecological EDITT Tower, Pothos The Twittering Plant, Potted plant blogs in Japan, Midori-san livecam, Midori-san livecam machine-translated Japanese to English, Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers, World’s most efficient solar cells created , McDonald’s Cracks Down On Sauce Scofflaws, Wall Street slices eBay earnings estimates, targets, eBay Inc. on Google Finance, Alien Popcorn, Devil in a Potato Chip, Hermaphrodite Corn Flake Man, Chris Christmas Rodriguez [video]

The Sistine Chapel, James Ussher, Jesus on a Dinosaur, Plantbot, Human powered sunset will get you in the mood, Dim, Alison v modern architecture Baritone smoke alarms wake the deepest sleepers, images 1, 2, FishPhone, Finally, a microscope that can see an atom, FEI Titan 80-300 Cubed TEM, IBEX: Interstellar Boundary Explorer, Ubuntu 8.10 Has a Brand New Wallpaper, NASA: All systems go on IBEX probe to map edge of solar system, 2007 NYC Halloween Parade on Rocketboom, Worst Costumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Photoshopped McCain Zombie Images

Nuvvuagittuq, Superior craton, and Tonalites, Zircon, Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad (1, 2, 3), Nature Jewelry, 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent, Preventing forest fires with tree power, Voltree Power, The human airbag that will protect the elderly if they fall, NASA’s Glory, Send Your Name Around The Earth On NASA’s Glory Mission, Send Your Name Around the Earth Web Form, The United States Chess Federation Earth vs. Space Chess Match 2008

Anti-gravity, NASA footage of zero gravity plane, Go-Fast Jetpack, Mythbusters on the Anti-Gravity Lifter Myth, Expl of dynamical BB effect from stand point of ZPF field by T. Musha, Biefeld Brown Effect, UFOs-NASA, Gary McKinnon, Free Gary McKinnon dot org dot uk, Brian Cox, D:Ream, What on Earth is wrong with gravity?, General Relativity (intro), Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Does matter with a negative mass exist somewhere in the cosmos? If it does, its bizarre properties would provide the perfect space-drive , Is anti-gravity possible?, Dr. Sten Odenwald

‘Space traffic control’ needed in junk-filled orbits, Flaming space junk narrowly misses jet (2007), New Horizons, ‘Brain Transplant’ Successful as Checkout Continues, New Horizons on Twitter, Rocketboom on Twitter, Creature Survives Naked in Space, Tardigrades, Tardigrade Facts, NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology , New WiFi System on ISS, ESA looks for a name for its next long-term mission to the ISS

Water Ice on Mars Confirmed by the Phoenix Mars Lander, White House Briefed About Life on Mars, Slashdot comments on the White House being briefed about life on Mars, Montauk Monster, What’s the Big Secret About Life on Mars?, Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA), Can MECA Detect Life on Mars or Not?

The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco to name the Sewage Plant after George W Bush, Real Flying Car, The Sky Cutter .40 V2, The Flying Lawn Mower, Gear Factor Marketing, The heads of the International Space Station meet in Paris, International Space Station, WaPo: Put Wings on The ISS and Send it to the Moon, Slashdot Readers to WaPo: ROFLMAO, Connect a Desk Connects a Laptop to Your Neck, 9.2 Percent of Koreans are Addicted to the Internet, More evidence that Koreans are hooked to the net, ‘God is with us’ by the Choir of St. Romanos the Melodist, $314.44 Holy Birdhouse, Holy Birdhouse Mosque, Atomic Bomb Detonation at 1,000,000,000th Of A Second, Herostratus, Temple of Artemis, Rocket no boom (thx, Kam!)