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Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoblog hosted by Joanne Colan and based in New York City. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008: How To Make Do With What You Have
Download Now · | Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00
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
Wednesday, July 2, 2008: The Man Behind The (Podington) Bear
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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
Tuesday July 1, 2008: Total Chaos
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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
Monday, June 30, 2008: Bots, Mods, and Secret Cheat Codes by Michelangelo
Download Now · | Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00
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...
Friday, June 27, 2008: The Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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Visiting the 2008 Coney Island Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, June 26, 2008: Throat Toast
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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
Wednesday June 25, 2008 : Woden Hump Day Robot Sale
Download Now · | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:21
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
Tuesday June 24, 2008 : Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in Nairobi
Download Now · | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:57
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
Monday, June 23, 2008 : Mars Snail Mail Disappearing News
Download Now · | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00
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
Casual Friday June 20, 2008 : First Day of Summer
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Story Links: Summer Solstice, Music: Squirell Commotion by Podington Bear
Thursday June 19, 2008: Musical Type
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Joanne plays the keyboard.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008: On The 2008 Webby Awards Red Carpet with Joanne
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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.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008: Battle of the Browsers - Firefox 3 vs Internet Explorer 7
Download Now · | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:00
Battle of the Browsers continued, Firefox vs Internet Explorer, Classic Rocketboom episode from Firefox Release 2, Music Invisible Is Not Invincible by Podington Bear
Monday June 16, 2008 : Bloomsday Plutoid Spores
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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
Friday June 13, 2008 : Iraq Today
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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
Thursday June 12, 2008 : Wiimbledon
Download Now · | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:21
Story Links Wiimbledon 2008, Barcade, music by Podington Bear, Wiimbledon 2007 by Rocketboom
Wednesday June 11, 2008 : 2008 Webbys Video and Film Awards
Download Now · | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:09
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
Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
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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
Monday, June 9, 2008: The Private War Contract
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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
Friday, June 6, 2008: Coney Island
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story links: final times for coney island's astroland, music by kris
Download Now · | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:00
Immersive composition of looping sounds from the streets of Chinatown.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008: Epistemology
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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)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008: Finding Shelter For 2,000 Refugees in Johannesburg
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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.
Monday, June 2, 2008: Body Vandals, Snails in the City, and Hitler the Hippie
Download Now · | Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:00
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
Friday, May 30, 2008: 28 Hours in Jyväskylä
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Rocketboom Spotlight: 28 Hours of Jyväskylä, a time-lapse film shot in high definition video by Neo Kekkonen in Jyväskylä, Finland.
