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Thursday, July 3, 2008: How To Make Do With What You Have

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

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008: The Man Behind The (Podington) Bear

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

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Tuesday July 1, 2008: Total Chaos

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

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Monday, June 30, 2008: Bots, Mods, and Secret Cheat Codes by Michelangelo

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

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Friday, June 27, 2008: The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Visiting the 2008 Coney Island Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

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Thursday, June 26, 2008: Throat Toast

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

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 : Woden Hump Day Robot Sale

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

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Tuesday June 24, 2008 : Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in Nairobi

Story Links: Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers pharmaceutical drug abuse in Nairobi, Kenya. For more reports from Kenya, see the Rocketboom Wiki on Kenya

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Monday, June 23, 2008 : Mars Snail Mail

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

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Casual Friday June 20, 2008 : First Day of Summer

Story Links: Summer Solstice, Music: Squirell Commotion by Podington Bear

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Thursday June 19, 2008: Musical Type

Joanne plays the keyboard.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008: Webby Awards 2008 - On The Red Carpet with Joanne

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.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008: Battle of the Browsers - Firefox 3 vs Internet Explorer 7

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

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Monday June 16, 2008 : Bloomsday Plutoid Spores

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

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Friday June 13, 2008 : Iraq Today

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

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Thursday June 12, 2008 : Wiimbledon

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

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 : 2008 Webbys Video and Film Awards

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

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

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

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Monday, June 9, 2008: The Private War Contract

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

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Friday, June 6, 2008: Coney Island

story links: final times for coney island's astroland, music by kris

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Sounds of Chinatown

Immersive composition of looping sounds from the streets of Chinatown.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008: Epistemology

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)

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Wednesday, June 3, 2008: Finding Shelter For 2,000 Refugees in Johannesburg

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the story of some 2,000 refugees seeking safety in the Methodist Church in the wake of the recent xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Monday, June 2, 2008: Body Vandals, Snails in the City, and Hitler the Hippie

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

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Casual Friday, May 30, 2008: 28 Hours in Jyväskylä

Rocketboom Spotlight: 28 Hours of Jyväskylä, a time-lapse film shot in high definition video by Neo Kekkonen in Jyväskylä, Finland.

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Thursday, May 29, 2008: Old School Webcams, New School Lifestreaming

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

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008: Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the rise of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 : Wearable Mars Pizza Pork Bean Burger Dance

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

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Monday May 26th, 2008 : Memorial Day

Story Links: Memorial Day, Henry C Welles, Waterloo, New York, Comparative death rates of selected US wars from 1775 - 2008, Documented civilian deaths from Iraq War, Military and civilian war related deaths through the ages

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Sunday May 25, 2008 : Is This the Way to Amarillo?

Story Links: Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards at the Al Faw base redo Is This the Way to Amarillo? (by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay)

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Casual Friday May 23, 2008 : Burger

Video response to Andy Warhol eating a hamburger.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008: Human Rights Video with Witness.org

Joanne visits Peter Gabriel's human rights video organization Witness.org in Brooklyn, NY.

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Thursday May 21, 2008 : Painting Chewing Gum

Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.

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Why Tuesday May 20, 2008 : Electing Al

Story Links: Muto graffiti animation in Buenos Aires by BLU, Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? on today's mail-in primary voting, Study on trust in the US federal government, German speaking Rocketboom field correspondent /SMS ;) speaks with riz khan of Al Jazeera at the St. Gallen Symposium, Aluminum, Shrubbery Camouflage Helmet, Number of horns on a unicorn multiplied by the answer to life, the universe and everything furlongs, How many cannibals can your body feed quiz, Study links cell phone use near children with hyperactivity and other behavioral problems

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Monday May 19, 2008 : Representational News

Story Links: Icahn has Cheeseburger (shareholder but not board member) to overtake Yahoo! board, Yahoo! Board of Directors, Who is your Yahoo Pick?, Moot, 4chan (photo), Jay Maynard, Tron Guy (video, image), Michael Arrington, Techcrunch (photo), Admiral Ackbar, Mon Calamari commander of the Rebel Fleet, Tay Zonday, Tazonday.com (photo), George Bush, soon to be former politician, Michael Buckley, What the Buck, Tom Dickson, Will it Blend
(photo), Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left (photo), Nemo, Disney, Including music by Podington Bear - Hook line and Slinker and Bobby Birdman, , How to eat bananas by Sara M. Brattman, New York Times article on Aya Tsukioka and Urban Camouflage in Japan, colored pencils in the woods (via), Makeup? mountain in Peru, The virtual 2-D girlfriend projection, NYU's ITP Show Spring 2008, Door to Hell in Uzbekistan, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a bottle Organ, Dragostea Din Tei in G

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Casual Friday, May 16, 2008 : The Phoneheads

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Super music video, Roll That Stone, in one take with two time frames from The Phoneheads, a drum&bass group from Düsseldorf, Germany. Poor guy never gets to eat.

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Thursday May 15th, 2008 : Jake and Amir

Story Links: NYC Videoblogging Meetup featuring Jake and Amir. Music by Podington Bear.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008: Anti al-Qaeda Sunni Militias in Iraq

Alive In Baghdad reports on the formation of a citizen militia to fight al-Qaeda in the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Sail-bots, Hidden McCain, and the Emergency Party Button

U.S. declares war on Mexico, Mexican-American War, General Ulysses Grant, Stephen Colbert's Birthday, Stephen Colbert for President 2008!, , Democrats revive Internet Freedom and Non-discrimination Act, David Lynch's Daily Weather Report, Foreclosure auction on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch canceled, Sail-bot to cross the Atlantic, The Emergency Party Button, John McCain’s hiding in your news open, God Sends His Only Severe Thunderstorm To Jenna Bush's Crawford Wedding, Terrafugia's Drivable Airplane, おおっと！

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Monday, May 12, 2008: JFK's Air Guitar, Red Giants, and the End of Everything

JFK Air Guitar fetches $5000 on Ebay, The End of Everything, Phoenix to Land on Mars, The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, via Space.com, Red Giants, Kitts Peak National Observatory, Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars, Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day, Extra Joanne's Best Alternate Take

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Casual Friday May 09, 2009 : Bathtime in Clerkenwell

Story Links: Bathtime in Clerkenwell animation by Alex Budovsky, Music: The Real Tuesday Weld with Stephen Coates based on "Sweeter Then Shugar" by the Mills Brothers

Thursday, May 8, 2008: International Day of Numbers

Story: International Day of Numbers, Music: Airliner

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008: Fighting Malaria in Kenya

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates malaria prevention in Kenya.

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Tuesday May 6, 2008 : One Red Paper Clip

Final ROFLCon video for 2008, Kyle Macdonald of One Red Paperclip talks with Sarah Meyers of Pop17 about his book. Also, help Kyle find out who these guys are at who are these guys dot com. Music from Podington Bear. SEE ROFLCON VIDEO POOL.

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Monday May 5, 2008 : Cinco de Mayo

Story Links: History of Cinco de Mayo, When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Bonnie Hamilton and The Harmoneion Singers, Ma Petite Biote by Sylvain Piron, El Relicario / Bolero (1927) by The Gonzalez' Orchestra

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Casual Friday, May 2, 2008: Questions No Answers

Joanne meets up with davidjr.com in Union Square, NYC

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Thursday, May 1, 2008: David Weinberger on Fame

Story Links: David Weinberger at ROFLcon with a lecture on fame, Music: Flutterbee by Podington Bear.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008: Before The LOL at ROFLCon

Jason Scott of Textfiles walks us through a history of online linguistics at ROFLCon 2008, Special appearance by Steve Garfield, Music: Pives and Flarinet by Podington Bear.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008: Chuck Norris Facts at ROFLCon

Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts at ROFLCon, Biographical information about Chuck Norris, The Book about The Truth About Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris sues Chuck Norris Facts, Vin Diesel Facts, Snakes on a Plane at IMDB, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Chuck Norris in Delta Force 2, Something Awful Forums, College Humor, William Morris Agency

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Monday April 28, 2008 : The Tron Guy at ROFLcon

Story Links: Jay Maynard the Tron Guy at the ROFLcon conference, MIT. The classic tron costume page that led everyone awry. Where The Hell Is Matt? Special music thanks to podington bear, ham radio by rtpalovich, Tron on ebay, Tron Arcade, Tron Trailer (redux), Tron (imdb)

Casual Friday April 25, 2008: Prague

Story: Rocketboom's Andrew Baron captures glass harpist, Alexander Zoltan, on the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008: Falling Spacecraft Pixel Spouts and Cloned Meat

Story Links: Trojan Horse, NASA awards new lunch services contract to SpaceX, Soyuz TMA-11 goes ballistic , Obamacrombie and Fitch Gate, The REEM-B Robot, Dean Kamen's Slightshot Water Purifier, Pixel Spout, Recycled Cell Phone Art (via Bill Pettit), Cloned Animal Meat Coming Soon, Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel, ROFLCon

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008: Creating New Investors in Kenya

Rocketboom Kenya field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers the frenzy as Kenyans look to buy shares in state mobile provider Safaricom ahead of their IPO.

Tuesday April 22, 2008 : Earth Day

Story Links Happy Earth Day! See Also: RB field correspondent Drew Olanoff dumpster dives for recyclables and Earth Day quotes.

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Monday, April 21, 2008: Artist Alley at the 2008 NY Comic Con

Rocketboom field correspondent Juliette Powell talks with comic book artists Ramon Perez, Mark Brooks, Romain Hugault, and N. Steven Harris at the 2008 New York Comic Con. Music: Sunset Stroll Into The Woods by Podington Bear.

Casual Friday, April 18, 2008: A New York Fairy Tale Continued

story links: A New York Fairy Tale Continued, Music - Tender & Curious by Poddington Bear

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Thursday April 17, 2008: Underwater World Record and Eco-Awareness

story links: Joanne interviews Shaun Waterford who plans on breaking the world record for most days living underwater.

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Wednesday April 16, 2008: Field Report: The Poor Helping the Poor at Barefoot College

Encore story links: Interview with Bunker Roy of Barefoot College (thanks, Andrew!)

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 : International News

Story Links: Sark Island changing to democracy, Island sold on Second Life, CBS CEO gets major raise as ratings tumblr, Food Prices Have Doubled or trippled, Reverse evolution may have been witnessed as 2 species turn back into one, Nice looking Phone Watch, Arbor day, Dinner in the Sky, 170 holes in Earth, Cyborg June Beetles, Wouldnt you love to ride in my beuatiful balloon?, Horse Sled Waggon, Rotators, There is an alegator snapping turle in japan, Brain scanner, Descartes, Tomorrow is busy

Monday, April 14, 2008

story links: Images of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on Flickr by Zipckr, by TimTom, by Image Editor, Faces of Death nuclear bomb test, Concerned Hawaiians file suit to stop the LHC from blowing up the world, The assassination of John F Kennedy vs The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Balloon Clothes, The Jump Bike, The Evolution of Space Debris, Satellite to be junked because lunar flyby is patented, 162 Million websites on the Internet, Stonehenge, 'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig, Ronald McDonald insanity, What's gonna [Donald] Donna, Donald MAD, Laugh now but one day we will meat at McDonalds

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Casual Friday April 11, 2008 : Twitter Madness

Story: Twitter Madness. Music: Infinity.

Thursday April 10, 2008: Dictionaraoke, Mandelbrot, Chain Surfing, Creepy Robots

story links: Dictionaraoke, Disney movies in 3D, Make magazine's Phillip Torrone covers the creepy new Segway RMP Robot, Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track, Osamu Tezuka’s Galaxy Boy Troop puppet space opera of the early 1960's, Seed Magazine interview with Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals, Chain Surfing, She without arm he without leg ballet, Kitty Tennis, Send Queen Rania of Jordan your stereotypes

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Wednesday April 9, 2008: The State of Electronic Voting Machines

story links: Rocketboom field correspondent Jacob Soboroff talks to computer security expert Ed Felten of Princeton University and Freedom-to-Tinker on the state of electronic voting machines.

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Tuesday April 8, 2008: Unexpected Extrasolar Molecules and Melting Icecaps

story links: Signs of Spring, Inflatable Animals, 6000 sq mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is breaking off, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Melting Icecaps may trigger more volcanic eruptions, WWF Paper Dispenser, Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet, Princeton's Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit, Psychology of Marketing, The Potato Song, Flickr Photo Credits (Eggybird, Rob Lee, JasonTromm)

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Monday April 7, 2008: Mechanical Oddities, Yahoo Mergers, My Little Pony Mashups

story links: Rocketboom boom mashup by Ronen, Hydrodynamic rotisseries, The Mechanical Beanstalk, 1951 Obituary Index, Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film), Students challenged to go complaint-free, Sitar Hero, Rocketboom Blog, Magic Pen, Yahoo receives warning from the Death Star, My Little Pony-Halo Mashup, A World of Custom "My Little Pony" Toys, Charlton Heston died, Showbiz Pizza Wolfpack 5, Pizza.com sells for $2.6B dollars (via slashdot)

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Casual Friday April 04, 2008 : Do YouTube?

Story Links: Joanne hits the streets to look for new videos to watch on YouTube and finds French Kiss New York, Monty Python Philosophy Football, Janet Rocke with U, Janet - Feedback, Kimbo Slice - The heart of a Lion

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Thursday April 03, 2008 : New Design High

Story Links: Joanne visits the New Design High School

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April 02, 2008 : Alien Abduction Festival

Story Links Canadian Rocketboom field correspondent Wayne MacPhail covers the Alien Abduction Festival

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Tuesday April 1, 2009 : True News

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

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Monday March 31, 2008 : Gamera Politics

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

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Saturday March 29, 2008 : Magibon Bombay

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

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Casual Friday Encore, March 28, 2008 : Reggie Watts

Story Links: Reggie Watts (music) | Extra: Check back for Saturday episode in Mumbai.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008: Virtual Woman, Pregnant Man, and a Twitter Marriage Proposal

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

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 : Sewage Disaster in East Baghdad

Story Links: The Shama’iya district in far east Baghdad is currently undergoing a major sewage disaster as polluted water fills the streets, and permeates the air. Field Report by Alive in Baghdad.

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 : Year of The Potato Day

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

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Monday March 24, 2008 : NYC Pillow Fight 2008

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

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Monday March 24, 2008 : Oil Chase and Fire

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

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Friday, March 21, 2008: Spring II of II

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits the first morning of Spring (music).

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Thursday, March 20, 2008: Spring I of II

story links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx, NY.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008: Elephants on Parade

story links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. The Elephants arrive in New York.

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 : Forward Through Backwards Time

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Encore: Joanne travels across New York City backwards through time. Eclipse Solaire by vinc2-exoplanete (music)

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 : Miniature City

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Miniature City. Inspired by Little People. Music by Drew.

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Monday March 17, 2008 : Fire Escape

Story: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Fire Escape. Music by PQPiano3

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Friday, March 14, 2008: I Can Has Cheezburger Panel at SXSW 2008

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.

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Thursday, March 13, 2008: Battledecks

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.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008: Spotlight: Salvador Dali and Gala

story links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Salvador Dali and Gala

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 : Richard Garriot takes Steve Brudniak's Art into Space

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.

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Monday March 10, 2008 : SXSWi Open

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.

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Friday, March 7, 2008: Casual Friday: New York City 1911-Present

story links: New York City 1911-Present, by Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage, NYPL Digital Gallery, video of the Empire State Building, music by Dosh

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Thursday, March 6, 2008: Rocketboom's Ellie Rountree visits Toy Tokyo

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

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008: Mars Hands Burgers to Pole Position

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

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008: Field Report: Recycling Construction Waste

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

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Monday, March 3, 2008: Intellectual Property Donor Cards, UFOs, Longplayer

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

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Casual Friday: February 29, 2008: Ransom - The Lost Episode

story link: Ransom.

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Thursday, February 28, 2009: Leap Year Day

story links: artist Brian Feldman celebrates Leap Year Day.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008: Spotlight: Andy Warhol

story links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Andy Warhol

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008: Whole Packaged Human, Disco Bambina, & Amphibious Cars

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

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Monday, February 25, 2008: Mind Control, Nader, and iBand

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

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