Story links: Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission, Monorail Cat, Newsreader attacked by giant seagull, Howard Dean on Dr. Nancy - Giant bug crawls in background!, Internet, Twitter Blocked in China City After Ethnic Riot, Still No Internet or SMS Allowed in China’s Muslim Region, 1/4 of China’s territory has been cut off from Internet…, Youth ‘cannot live’ without web, The Battle Between the White House and Fox News, Reality Check: Turning a Point of Pride into a Moment of Shame, Geraldo Rivera: Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Is A “Piece Of Crap”, Vanna Bonta quotation, Music: Invisible by I am Jen, Sunset in the Woods by Podington Bear, Neff Fountain by Genna Douglass, Snowflakes by Demerit 7

Story links: Jupiter, Water, Desktop Black Hole, Bad Memories Written with Lasers, Moby-Dick to be rewritten with emoticons, Emoji Dick, 2010 Olympic Medals to be made from old circuit boards, Turning Flyer Boxes into Planters, When skyscrapers signal a downturn, Twitter credit card iPhone app is a Squirrel, Leaving Iraq ends US mission veiled in ambivalence, Afghanistan, Rick continues as ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 5 hurricane well off Mexico’s Pacific coast, Europa, Conditions are Right for Life on Europa, Asteroid Impact, NASA: world will not end in 2012, Hallow-meme Costume Builder, Scientists Make Desktop Black Hole, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwars, Space and Time, Fruit flies’ memories reprogrammed with lasers

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree shows us some of her favorite productivity applications. Tweetdeck, CoTweet, Adium, Sizzling Keys, Dropbox, Drop.io, Download Helper, Snapz Pro X, Aviary, Quicksilver, Little Snitch. Music by Podington Bear

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

story links: rocketboom on twitter, bbq, discardia, hair cut, brain diseases, cisco 7940g, working, incredible horse stunt, weather, mario brothers line rider, escalator skiing, awkward moments on tape, ordering toner, peanuts, robogeek

Who’s afraid of the big bad Tweets? Perhaps Google? Goocam World Map, Town Square, Shake Shack, Waiting in line at Shake Shack. Moving surprisingly slow., Google CEO: Twitter A ‘Poor Man’s Email System’, Google Blog Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, Twitter Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, MT-Hacks: Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google, Mark Carey, Google Buys Jaiku, Follow Rocketboom on Twitter!

Johannes Kreidler - Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts, Job Losses In Recent Recessions, Facepalm, Barney Stinson’s Video Resume (fictional character on ‘How I Met Your Mother’), Proof: Japan Discovered Numa Numa, Simroid (a.k.a. ‘Pain Girl’), Would you name your child Nokia?, Re: The Longest Words in the English Language, 867-5309 Auction Ends Today, Twitter of the Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, FAKED Chinese Spacewalk !!! Under Water !!! PROOF !!!, Pot backers hit Kellogg’s over Phelps

Joanne interviews participants at a coding party for the Twitter Vote Report distributed vote monitoring system at the Not An Alternative gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Vote Report on Twitter, Vote Report Volunteer Kit, Nancy Scola. Music: Koshka-Garmoshka by Olga Scotland and .

Story: Twitter Madness. Music: Infinity.

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: 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: Game Boy Around the World, The rise and fall of Hello Kitty Hell, Twitter list of prediction lists, Ask Bill Gates at CES, Apple to take over world in 2008, Robert X. Cringely’s wackywise predictions, Don’t censor me “worst comments on digg” aggregator, Assembly motion tracking bot honored, via,2008 Robot Video Page