Saturday 30th July 2011
by WayneHere is today’s Daily Run Down.
- G.O.P. Leaders Renew Talks With Obama on Debt Deal
- Fight over debt tests leadership of Obama, Boehner
(AP) - 400 attend roller rink shooting victims’ funeral
(AP) - Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Retail Mode app makes its debut on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (video)
- Movie Studios Want Automated BitTorrent Warnings
- Anonymous Releases 400 MB of FBI Contractor Data
- Best Science Photos of the Week – July 26, 2011
- DoJ ramping up antitrust probe of $4.5B Nortel patent purchase by Apple, others
- Verbatim splashes color with new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 portable hard drives
- Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched
- Wrong dog euthanized, so animal that bit 3 was adopted
- Oddly Specific: Meanwhile, In America
- Real Men Ride Across
- Tens of Thousands Flee From BT and Virgin
- 20-year-old man dies after marathon gaming sessions
(Digital Trends) - Apple Extends iTunes Previews to 90 Seconds Internationally
- 55 arrested in huge sweep of south suburbs
- In an Early 1900s Neighborhood, a Glimpse of ‘2001’
- That Aug. 2 Deadline? It May Be Impossible, Veteran Lawmakers Say
- Court blocks Personal Audio from pursuing further damages from Apple
- Afghanistan Team Denied Chance at 2012 Olympics
- Lesson #1131 – Definitions, Part XVI
- July 30, 2011
- Weird Moon Crater May Be Crash Site of Old NASA Spacecraft
(SPACE.com) - Worst Washington mess in nearly 20 years
- Pregnancy announcements added as a new option on Facebook
(Digital Trends) - Two planes clip wings at O’Hare
- Appeals Court Says Genes Are Patentable, Because They’re ‘Separate’ From Your DNA
- NASA’s Juno to circle Jupiter for ‘planetary recipe’
(AFP) - New Life Forms Discovered: Behold Exploding Bacteria
- 3DS NES titles to include multiplayer following an update
- TSA May Announce New Behavior Screening Plans Soon
- How to Liberate Your Data from Google (And Why It Matters That You Can)
- Illinois officials brace for federal debt gridlock
- Polar Bear Researcher Suspended, Spurring Alarm
(LiveScience.com) - Startup Crisis Control: 6 Painful Lessons from Airbnb
- Driving on the Moon: The 40-Year Legacy of NASA’s First Lunar Car
- YES! “@katie_freeman: Dear House: Passing bills that have zero chance of advancing isn't leading OR governing. It's just a waste of time.”
- Woman found dead at Sybaris in Frankfort
- Nintendo stocks fall 13%, prompts exec pay cut
- Metra train hits, kills pedestrian near Naperville
- @GirlFuturist @barackobama The republicans that represent me are not techno-savvy enough to be on twitter. They don't even respond to email
- @SpeakerBoehner @CongCliffCalley Should be no "pork barrels" added to this bill, it should be strictly about the national debit nothing else
- @SpeakerBoehner @CongCliffCalley If the republicans did not put in useless addendum to this it would not be a problem. I think there (cont)
- @SenatorKirk So let's settle the debt and get working on Bath Salts.
- @SenatorKirk aren't the problem with why we are in such debt. Actions on "bath salts" needs to be the focus not national debt. (continued)
- @SenatorKirk representatives who have wasted money. See the @NYTimes http://t.co/2HPiLGF info graphic. Tell me that Republicans (continued)
- Slip n Slide FAIL
- President Obama’s #Compromise Twitter Campaign Draws Criticism
- 'Cowboys & Aliens': UFO Sightings in the Wild West
- AOL Nearly Ready With Editions: The App for When You Crap
- Quinn to sign Illinois Dream Act for scholarship money
- Client: I don’t like the colors.
Me: What color would you like?
Client: How should I know,… - Netflex Price Increase: First World Problems
- Duke Nukem Forever expanded inventory update ‘unlikely’ for consoles
- C’mon In, the VP8 Patent Pool’s Warm
- AT&T to throttle smartphone data starting October 1st
- Iceland Unveils Crowdsourced Constitution
- Firefighters receive $2 million in Connecticut discrimination case
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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