Wednesday 25th May 2011
by WayneThis is an example of the new Daily Run Down format. This is to show you what it will look like, as well as clear out the initial list of stories. I would hope there would not be this much news everyday, but if there is you can read it.
Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Twitter ‘will inform users of legal action’, says European boss
- Elizabeth Smart kidnapper sentenced to life in prison
- AP source: Edwards could be indicted within days
(AP) - Love to Barbecue? Ditch the Gas Grill, Fire Up the Coals
- AT&T: 'On the doorstep of LTE' with devices to match
- Test chamber music: Valve offers free Portal 2 soundtrack downloads
- Dell to supply VA with $476M in PCs, services
- Singer's Ex-Boyfriend Demands Royalties For Inspiring Songs About Their Relationship & Breakup
- Final Xbox “Founder” Leaves Microsoft … Eh
- Amazon recasts Kindle battery life after Barnes & Noble claims
- What Happened at the eG8? [INFOGRAPHIC]
- cryptography
- Brazilian activist shot dead in Amazon
(AP) - New MacDefender variant MacGuard discovered, doesn’t need your password to infect your Mac
- Apple Store planking: Idiots work for Apple, too
- The Science Behind This Terrible Tornado Season
- Ancient Sea Monsters Were No Shrimps
- Wordplay Wednesday
- CNBC ‘Squawk’ anchor Mark Haines dies at 65
(AP) - Failbook: The Guest of Honor’s RSVP
- Tumblr Launches New “Spotlight” Directory
- Confirmed: Twitter Buying TweetDeck For ‘Power Users’, ‘Change Inevitable’
- Rio de Janeiro Raising $2 Billion to Renovate Port For Olympics
- Disclaimer FAIL
- Mom: Four Loko killed my son
- Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000
- Horny Male Alligators Bellow With Their Back Spikes
- AT&T Announces Its First Five LTE Markets (Sorry, San Francisco and New York)
- Good Point
- Virgin America launches service at O’Hare today
- Nintendo Power cover confirms Sonic Generations 3DS, new Shinobi
- Lasers, filters, and fiber add up to 26Tbps data transfers
- YouTube: Two Days’ Worth of Video Uploaded Every Minute
- Sarkozy's Attempt To Woo The Digerati Foreshadows The Coming Conflict Between Technology & Regulations
- Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches
- Probably Bad News: I Think They Can Skip The Breathalyzer
- Fun Mango tidbit
- Former Royals LHP Splittorff dead at 64
(AP) - GigaOm Raises $6 Million Fifth Round; Will Expand Subscriptions, Events
- Arrow Positioning Fail
- Road Sign Kludge: More Uncomfortably Fun Furniture!
- GameFly acquires PC digital distributor Direct2Drive
- EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8
- Engrish Funny: Just a Cub for Me, I’m Driving
- We Took Care of Your Mold Problem
- May 25, 1945: Sci-Fi Author Predicts Future by Inventing It
- Quotation Use FAIL
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Coming in a Few Days With Android 3.1
- Elizabeth Smart to confront kidnapper at sentencing
- ComEd rate hike to cost customers about $37.80 more a year
- Things That Are Doing It: Who’s Getting Milked?
- Navy Chief Dreams of Laser Warships, Ocean-Spanning Robots
- Oddly Specific: Some People Are All Three!
- Sony Ericsson’s Canadian online store hacked, more than 2,000 customers’ data taken
- Daley to join faculty at U of C, organize lecture series
- Americans Pray for Health Now More Than Ever
- The Moon and Man at 50: Why JFK’s Space Exploration Speech Still Resonates
- Ahmadinejad Backs Out of Key Role at OPEC
- Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 “lion’s den,” rips into lions
- Evanston debates disposable shopping bag ban
- Witness: Chicago terror suspect said India ‘deserved’ 2008 Mumbai bombing
- Ford car seat prototype keeps its sensors on your heart, so you can keep your eyes on the road
- Probably Bad News: Extending The Date FAIL
- Wheaton students admit to taunting at lacrosse game
- US Copyright Group Breaks Its Own Record; Sues 24,583 For Allegedly Sharing Hurt Locker
- Blago, Emanuel to take the stand
- Playground FAIL
- Drinking Dog
- If You Don’t Mind the Ads, Amazon Offers 3G Kindle for $164
- During budget crisis, House staff got bonuses
- TiVo Earnings Soar After Patent Settlement
- Robots Retrieve Your Books At U. Chicago's $81 Million Library
- Tuesday TypOHs!
- PO-TA-TOES
- Tornado claims lives near Oklahoma City, officials say
- US tornado toll rises to 122
(AFP) - Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO
- Ugliest Tattoos: Don’t Count the October Rapture Out So Soon
- NASA Gives Up On Stuck Mars Rover Spirit
- California officials: We’ll fix prison crowding, won’t free 33,000
- Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners
- Tracking Whale Sharks With Astronomical Algorithms
- Texas Instruments Learns Nothing, Goes After Hobbyists Again
- Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk
- Got Probs…
- No In-Dash Video? COME ON!
- Oprah tapes her farewell
- T-Mobile Joins the Capped Data Bandwagon
- Emanuel wants tighter supervision after city worker accused of DUI
- the gift that keeps on giving.
- Aerial Microbes Can Make Rain
- Were the Soviets behind the Roswell UFO?
- Fedora 15 Released
- Apple assigned rights to over 200 Freescale patents
- Judge: Hangover 2 Can Still Be Released; But Tattoo Artist May Prevail In The End
- Facebook Loses Traffic in Middle East
- Yahoo Mail Redesign Leaves Beta, Promises Speed Boost and Social Integration
- Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold
- Oh Look, The Overall Music Industry In Canada Has Been Growing As Well…
- Barnes & Noble new Nook hands-on (updated with video!)
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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