Here is today’s Daily Run down.

• Live Science has an article on why we carve pumpkins and not turnips.
• Some pictures for today are from Space.com about a Cosmic Jewel box.
• Just like bad drivers, the compulsion to hoard is also genetic.
• In a continuing effort to keep us buying their products, the Chinese are going to bank roll a $1.5 Billion Texas wind farm.
• Wired Science states that we need to put an Armada of Robots and Blimps on Mars.
• Jquery is dumping Google Groups over spam.
• Best Buy is allowing pre-orders for the new Motorola Droid on Verison.
• Stackable memory advance brings flash-killer closer to market.
• Looks like there are some new attacks on WPA/TKIP encryption. AES Seems safe still.
• Apple has released Apple TV 3.0 software as well as iTunes 9.0.2.
• Apple is said to be revamping their stores and checkouts.
• WordPress 2 for iPhone OS has been released.
• Google says it will limit the blocked calls on Google voice.
• In the holiday spirit, here are Five orange gadgets.
• Whirlpool wants to pull the plug on dumb appliances.
• For a goofy gadget, the air board.
• In useless policing, the Utah McDonalds rapping teens were cited.
• In This is why we need stupidity and regulation, a Telco (TDS) is suing a city for rolling out their own broadband.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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