Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp profiles Sharif Osman, a Mombasa Camel Man or “beach boy” whose business has been hurt by tourists’ reluctance to visit Kenya after recent post-election violence. Previous Rocketboom coverage of the Kenyan election crisis: 1/8/08: Election Violence in Kenya, 1/16/08: Displaced Villagers in Nakruru, 1/16/08: Post Election Stress on Kenyan Markets, 1/23/08: Continued Coverage From Nairobi, 1/23/08: Kenya Crisis Continued, 2/13/08: 6,000 Refugees Seek Shelter Amid Continued Ethnic Violence, A Refugee In His Own Country, Kenya in Crisis page from the Rocketboom wiki, More stories by Ruud Elmendorp

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?

story links: evolution vs. peanut butter, evolution vs. banana, laraque vs ivanans, bush vs. all people, bush standing vs bush standing, don imus vs. black people, geraldo vs. oreilly, mother vs. son, rumsfield vs. evidence, newt vs. spanish people, list of logical fallacies from the art of reason, post hoc, appeal to majority, appeal to force, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, begging the question, diversion, non sequiter, subjectivism, straw man, false alternative, ad hominem, tu quoque, poisoning the well, appeal to ignorance, complex question

Know Your Meme wiki, more Know Your Meme videos, Tina sings the Backstreet Boys, Tina Chen on PerezHilton.com, Tina strips [video removed], Tina on MySpace, Tina-SouljaBoy Remix, Tina-Angry German Kid Remix, Leave Kristina Alone, Kristina Chen on Stuff Ethnic People Like, Is This Tina in Jesus Camp?, Tina says it’s not her in Jesus Camp

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen of mnstories covers interactive toy sculpture artist Anastasia Ward

The Magic Number 30, The Airventure Airshow, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Martin Jetpack, Aulophobia on Wikirage, The Celtic Football Club, of Glasgow, Scotland, The Rangers Football Club, also of Glasgow, Scotland, Aulophobia on Wikitionary, The PetPocket Bird Carrier, FriendFeed, Andrew Baron on Friendfeed, 1894 Film of Annie Oakley Shooting at Targets, Professor Kunihiko Takeda on “Hypocritical Ecology”

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen covers the 3rd Annual Netroots Nation progressive politics conference in Austin, TX. Interviews with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen, Karl Frisch of Media Matters, and Irwin Tang author of Gook. For more coverage, visit TheUptake.org, Rocketboom coverage of last year’s conference.

Rocketboom special field correspondent Sarah Austin visits Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego, CA. Interviews with JJ Kirby and Michael Lopez of Wildstorm Comics, cosplayers, Shonen Jump, Bill Plympton, Ghostbusters, Rocketboy

David Byrne’s interactive art project Playing the Building at South Street Seaport in New York City.

Spammer literally walks out of prison, YouTomb tracks videos taken down for copyright violations, Deletube is now defunct, Contact Deletube, The Real Deletube, Migaloo an albino humpback whale spotted in Australia, Migaloo’s albino turtle cousin, Coral Grief, Coral Reefs Threatened by ‘Bleaching’, Just For Men, Pedicures by Dead-Skin-Eating Fish, Exclusive Images from the Waikupanaha Lava Plume (thanks, Kam!), Update from Kilauea, Fingerfood Plate Ring