Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Oprah is said to reunite the ‘Sound of Music’ cast after 45 years.
• Blackberry has announced it’s tablet, the PlayBook.
• NBA Jam will arrive as a standalone product due to a delay of NBA Elite.
• Kim Jong Il has promoted his son to a 4-star general, in a move that might make him the next leader of Korea.
• President Obama is seeking a longer school year.
• OpenOffice.org has forked from Oracle and formed it’s own entity.
• AOL is officially going to acquire Techcrunch.
• Kindle is now available on the Web.
• Former President Jimmy Carter has been taken to the hospital.
• Toddlers recognize entropy from messy bedrooms.
• XMarks, the cross browser bookmark syncing company, will be closing it’s doors on January 10, 2011.
• A solar observatory error has created an interesting mix of Jupiter and the Sun.
• Rumors are abound that Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, may leave Apple for the CEO Job at HP.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

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