No so exciting. Panorama by Michael Stoß: http://news360.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/barack-obama-fordert-gemeinsames-handeln-ein/Formats available: YouTube, Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)Tags: mccain, green, screen, berlin, michael, stoß, panorama...

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: - The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25)  - Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements incl...

comic-con alternatives, watchmen, sticker cars...

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

Special guest star Jason Olson explains Open Space at PDC2008. The "Birds of a Feather" sessions were considered too structured and too boring. Enter Open Space, the new (to the tech industry) way to create ad-hoc "un"-conferences. Open Space will be located in the main room right next to the track ...

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Spammer literally walks out of prison, YouTomb tracks videos taken down for copyright violations, Deleutube 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 , J...

We've heard a lot about PDC2008 which promises to bring a boatload (official term) of information and announcements about the future of the Microsoft development platform. But before you rush out to book your trip you should also check out the list of PDC2008 pre-conferences for 11 reasons to come t...

I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group of really smart people lead by Paul Vick. Y...

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp shares with us the story of John Otieno and the continuing plight of some 300,000 internally displaced persons in Kenya as a result of the disputed presidential elections this past December. Previous Rocketboom coverage of the Kenyan election crisis: 1/8...

nin treasure hunt, scott sigler, who is banksy...

McCain: There Will Be Other Wars, Smilin John McCain - Tough Talk - Fool or Fraud?, Ball Bounce, Obama Talks Tough, Biography of George Washington, A Brief Profile of the Continental Army, Dwight David Eisenhower At a Glance, World War II, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Grant, The Civil War Home Pa...

Meet Jasmine Park, program manager in Windows Live, who works on SkyDrive and FolderShare.  Want 5 gigs of free password-protected online file storage?  Sign up for SkyDrive.  Need to keep your latest files with you, no matter which computer you're using?  Install FolderShare for free and you ca...

The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco to name the Sewage Plant after George W Bush, Real Flying Car, The Sky Cutter .40 V2, The Flying Lawn Mower, Gear Factor Marketing, The heads of the International Space Station meet in Paris, International...

Architect Tara Prakriya is in the business of finding solutions to hard problems.  What are hard problems?  Ones that are complicated by both the business model and new domains, and then trying to figure out a technical solution that would be feasible within the confines of the market.  Plus, bei...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Countdown to PDC, where Jennifer Ritzinger, the PDC2008 Event Owner, and Mike Swanson, the PDC2008 Content Owner, share updates and behind-the-scenes stories about what it takes to produce a ginormous conference like the PDC. Join them, along with other members of...

geek graffiti, sarah gets buzzed, rock band 2...

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover: - Netflix streaming coming to Xbox 360 via Gizmodo (0 - 2:00) - Roiy Zysman: Programatically geotag photos (2:00 - 3:51) - Mark Brown: Behind the Maps Series (3:51 - 4:21) - Terrarium open sourced on Codeplex via Bil Simser (4:21 - 7:05) - Chris Piets...

Joanne takes a look at The New York City Waterfalls, a public art installation by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson...

Dallas Building Demolition, Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition, Dancers Blinded By Lasers At Russian Rave, Principe de fonctionnement d un laser, St. Basil s Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin, Red Square, Moscow, Ophthalmic eyepatch, Inside John McCain s Head Again, Iran Sucks at Photoshop, ...