Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Console users spending more time watching streaming video
• Dave Winer on Apps and the Web
• Google removes 27 apps from Android Market in response to RuFraud malware threat
• Photos Geminid Meteor Shower of December 2011
• Hearsay CEO Clara Shih Named to Starbucks Board
• Retrofits planned for new CTA rail cars
• School bus driver placed on leave following fatal accident
• Nvidia releasing CUDA compiler source code allowing support for AMD GPUs
• Apple to open Israeli development center with semiconductor focus – It worked for Intel, should work for Apple too.
• Check out this new iPhone case mounting system called the Quad Lock
• Order For Me
• Microsoft opens Messenger to XMPP allowing Apple to connect iChat iOS clients
• Texas woman gets 20 years for largest heroin seizure in Kane County history
• Teacher resigns after allegedly spraying Lysol in students face
• Charges to cell phone bills have limited protection study
  Reuters
• Ex-Ukraine President Cleared in Politically Freighted Murder Case
• Verizon upgrades IP network in major cities blames your bandwidth guzzling
• Saudi Witch Beheaded for Black Magic
• In the Game of Love Self-Deception May Be Key
• Buyers Remorse How Much Has the F-22 Really Cost
• Google donates $850000 to restore home of the codebreakers
• Stolen iPhone Your iMessages may still be going to the wrong place
• Unshelved on Wednesday December 14 2011
• Client What is the opposite of Z
  Me … of Z
  Client Yeah I’m doing the ctrl+Z thing…
• Sonic CD remains fun fast and now includes the Japanese soundtrack
• Spiders Hundreds of Fine Hairs Are Hundreds of Ears
• Galaxy Nexus launches December 15th on Verizon for $299.99
• Velociraptors Killer Claws Helped Them Eat Prey Alive
• Wild Monkeys to Be Released into Fukushima Fallout to Test Radiation
• The New Intel Mobile Division
• Christmas Tree a Must-Have for Many Infographic
• IDW powers its apps with Comixology and launches same-day digital comics
• Netflix 2.0 for the iPad is available now
• Google updates Gmail for iOS with custom signatures and other weird stuff
• 12/14/11 PHD comic Mores Law
• Lesson #1262 – Card Games
• December 15 2011
• How will Internet Explorer users react to being pushed to IE9
• Riley Fox’s parents say private eye who’s suing them lied about FBI ties
• PATRIOT Act Continues To Harm US Businesses BAE Refuses To Use MS Cloud Over PATRIOT Act Fears
• Is Triceratops One or Three Species Debate Continues
• Sending Music to the Cloud
• Comedian Louis CK Says $5 Rights-Free Content Is A Winner
• Wordplay Wednesday
• So big so round so fully packed
• T-Mobile To Offer $50 Nokia Windows Phone in January
  NewsFactor

• Are drivers too hooked on their phones – This is why we need Johnny Cars, like the ones from Total Recall.
• Carrier IQ We Volunteered to Be Grilled by the Feds
• 2011 The People Who Mattered
• Serious Success
• WIN Crayon Art WIN
• Autocowrecks A Bearded Dragon Shows Mad Skills Is 10x Cooler Than Your Cat
• Failbook The Lord of the Research Papers
• Dating Fails She Didn’t Get The “Semper Fi” Part
• Inspired by Rainbow Road
• WIN Chalk Art WIN
• FAIL Nation Taking The Ol’ Silo Outback FAIL
• After 12 Finally A Solution
• Failbook Real Talk
• Apple Rolling Out New iTunes Terms Ahead of International iTunes Match Debut [Updated]
• iTunes Match Goes Live Internationally For Real This Time
• Barbara Walters names Steve Jobs ‘Most Fascinating Person of the Year’
• Turn it down FCC approves new rules to quiet noisy TV commercials
• Comcast expands IPv6 services into four more states
• Clearwire raises another $734 million in funding from Sprint and public offering
• Verizon to launch 11 new 4G LTE markets on December 15th
• The tablet Apple tried to stop
• Dan Frommer on His New Gig at ReadWriteWeb and What It Means for SplatF
• Font Swap in iBooks
• Merlin Mann Interviews Adam Lisagor
• Facebooks Timeline now available to everyone
• Why hospital rooms dont work
• Randy K. Milholland
• Google Zeitgeist 2011 A Glimpse Into A Weird Year
• Microsoft to Developers Sorry About the Whole IE6 Thing Wont Happen Again
• Box Enterprise Goes to Unlimited Storage
• Microsoft to begin automatic Internet Explorer upgrades in 2012
• New Hotmail Version Now Fully Deployed … Plus a Hotmail App for Android
• Apple TV 4.4.4 fixes video playback error
• BBC Steve Jobs documentary ‘Billion Dollar Hippy’ now on YouTube but probably not for long
• Everyone Has Ideas to Resurrect Research in Motion — Does RIM
• New Chrome Release Promises to Keep Multiple Google Accounts Straight Finally
• How a Tiny Des Moines Start-Up Believes It Can Beat the Credit Card Industry
• Amazon Shares Some Kindle Sales Numbers — Sort Of
• Tumblr Had 42 Hours of Downtime in 2011 — And Thats an Improvement
• FCC Chairman to Congress Hands Off Unlicensed Spectrum
• Blagojevich seeks drug treatment in prison
• American Airlines cuts flights at OHare
• Stranger offers to pay fine for hockey rink citation
• Study Latinos trapped by blue-collar ceiling
• Slaying victim found shot as many as 19 times in Riverdale
• Bankrupt trucker picks $11.2M Lotto ticket
• Daley named to Coca-Cola board
• Tollway approves $132 million in construction projects. including disputed ones
• After cursing judge man sentenced to 60 years for Lakeview slaying
• FBI Probe into gun running leads to charges against 15
• Theives grab 8000 breakfast bars
• Tech entrepreneurs attack SOPA on the eve of markup
• Universal has Tech News Today episode yanked from YouTube for reporting on MegaUpload promo video
• Google+ Hangouts get new phone and video broadcast features
• Grand Theft Auto III now on sale in the Android Market and iTunes App Store
• OECD Says Countries Must Promote Protect Global Free Flow Of Info Online Irony Alert US Cheers This On
• Google donates £550000 to help restore site of Turings codebreaking project
• Tons Of Amendments Proposed For SOPA
• The Nerf Jolt EX-1 is small concealable accurate and it stings a little
• Verizon Galaxy Nexus already receiving Android 4.0.2 update
• Ridiculous Lamar Smith Basing His Plan To Massively Regulate The Internet On False Or Misleading Research
• Amazon sells more than 1 million Kindles a week for third week
• Lost or stolen iPhones can send iMessages from original Apple ID even after being wiped
• Apple TV receives 4.4.4 firmware update with bug fixes
• If You Dislike SOPA Youll Dislike This Case Too
• Revolt in China After Protests A Village Gets Blockaded By Authorities
• George Whitman Paris Bookseller and Cultural Beacon Is Dead at 98
• Occupy 2.0 Church leaders join movement
• Casualties in military copter crash IDd
• Russell Hoban ‘Frances’ Author Dies at 86
• George W. Bush Looks Back on No Child Left Behind
• Use of Chimps Halted in New U.S.-Funded Research
• Fond Farewells
• Nokia Lumia 710 for T-Mobile hands-on video
• GEAR4 takes to the skies with Angry Birds Tweeters
• Palo Alto Library to loan out Google Chromebooks alongside real books
• SOPA hearings underway tech policy wonks can stream it live
• Google employee creates the ultimate LAN party house lives la vita local
• Dell cuts Mini netbooks for non-business customers ruins Christmas for laptop lovers
• Forces that affect whether a large company will buy your product according to Marc Andreessen
• cdixon.org site statistics
• Bill Gates confirms he will not return to Microsoft full-time
• Adobe closes year with solid Q4 earnings keeps focus on digital media
• Janet Robinson Stepping Down As NYT CEO
• Cosmic Autopsy Reveals Youngest Supernovas Origins
• NASA Spacecraft Cozies Up to Gigantic Asteroid
• 1000 Hidden Species Revealed in Aussie Outback Underground
• Sexual Abuse By Teen Girls Likely Underreported
• Body Weight More Contagious in Childhood than Adulthood
• Teen Smoking Drinking Hits Lowest Level Since 1970s
• Gov. vows to prepare Calif. for climate change
  AP

• Wheres the Snow
• Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
• Satellites to Watch Comets Death Plunge Through Sun Today
• Silver Dollar Galaxy Glistens in New Photo
• Report Harmful Chimpanzee Research Not Worth the Pain
• Earthquake Sensors Track Rare Whales
• Hubble Captures Violent Birth Pangs of Enormous Star

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