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Ivy Bean is the World’s Oldest Facebooker at 102, Edna Parker is the Oldest Person Alive at 115, The World’s Tallest Woman was Edna Parker’s neighbor, Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days, Timothy a Greek Tortoise lived to 160, Greenland sharks can live up to 200 years, Cinachyra antarctica sponge can live to [...]

Fonzie Jumps The Shark, US hunters claim to have found Bigfoot, Spain to Grant Human Rights to Great Apes, Peter Fox: Alles Neu, Career Builder Ad With Monkeys, Gerald The Gorilla Sketch, Goatee Saver (via Curiobot), The Very Loud Fenstar Flying Military Robot, Bono Leaks U2 Tracks Online by Playing His Music Too Loud, Michael [...]

The Original ‘All Your Base’ Cut Scene from Zero Wing, Engrish, Execution In Process, Not Feel Well, Get Drunk, Sexual Harassment Company, There Is A Possibility…., All Your Base Animated GIF, Zany Video Game Quotes, All Your Base Overdub by Overclocked.org, Something Awful Forums, AYB Photoshops, The Laziest Men on Mars, Gabber Techno, “Invasion of [...]

Joanne interviews David Mason of the Mobile Mini Circus for Children of Kabul, Afghanistan. MMCC is a non-profit organization staffed by local Afghan artists who organize educational programs and performances for children in a war torn Afghanistan. More videos of AfghanMMCC performances.

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft, World’s Smallest Burger, World’s Smallest Balloon, Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain , Styrofoam Dome Homes, eBay Slot Machines, The 10 Oddest City Names, GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade, Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973 , Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak, John McCain, Kites could provide electricity [...]

Joanne interviews Charlie Todd of the prankster comedy group Improv Everywhere. Best Buy, Frozen Grand Central, Food Court Musical, Human Mirror

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN in 3 minutes, Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider testing didn’t cause a black hole, Large Hadron Rap (thx, Alphaxion!), The Global Warming Rug Will Last 1000 Years, The US Army Wants to be Nearly One-Third Robotic by 2020, Tetra Vaal Robot Animation, Kid playing video games, [...]

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Steve Garfield interviews the Boston Typewriter Orchestra

NASA, Campaign Reveals Just a Little Bit of Coke’s Secret Formula, $100,000,000,000 bill from Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Faces 50 Million Percent Inflation, Uses Gasoline Coupons For Currency, The Zimbabwe Situation, Man Successfully Undergoes Double Arm Transplant, Goro, The Unofficial Mortal Kombat 3 Movie Page, MontyMash, Bodies in Urban Spaces via SwissMiss, Ian Usher, the guy who [...]

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, [...]