Thursday 1st September 2011
by WayneHere is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Mitt Romney’s Best Hope of Wounding Rick Perry? Hit Him on Social Security
- Alligator tries to drag 90-year-old woman into a Florida canal
- Driver in deadly NYC tour bus crash denies guilt
(AP) - Dad accused of throwing son off boat
- College plagiarism on the rise: Blame the web, or blame the student?
- New Star Wars Blu-Ray Changes [Videos]
- ‘Twilight’ Bacteria May Be Missing Link in Global Carbon Cycle
- AP Source: Former NHL player Belak hanged himself
(AP) - Captive Chimps Could Be Declared Endangered Species
- Month Passes With No U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq
- Windows Phone Mango rollout could begin September 15th
- Unseemly hype
- Apple promotes Eddy Cue again to guide iAd, iCloud to success
- Phantastic Photos
- Poorly Dressed: A Dirty Job Is A Dirty Job, Right?
- Microsoft gets its own ‘Locationgate’ scandal with accompanying class action lawsuit
- The 9/11 Decade: Ironworkers of the Sky
- Tim Cook hopefully gives iAds a little bit of a Cue, Eddy Cue gets a promotion
- Twitter, Faster Than Earthquakes
- Windows 8 desktop to be ‘just another app,’ says Microsoft exec
- If Done Right, Cable Management Should Defy Gravity
- George Lucas Strikes Back: Who Truly Owns Star Wars?
- Airport Waiting Times
- Foxconn expected to ship 20 million iPad 2 units in Q3
- New roller coaster for Six Flags in 2012
- Dude, Roll The Window Down!
- Not Just Random House: Over 20 Percent Of Hachette’s Sales Are E-Books, Too
- No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would say!
- There I Fixed It: Shockingly Relaxing!
- Captain Rex LEGO Minifigure Alarm Clock
- Insomnia costs U.S. $63 billion annually
- Most B2B employees think enterprise should go social (survey)
- Sept. 1, 1939: Wehrmacht Puts the Blitz in Krieg
- Type of Detergent FAIL
- FDA panels put silicone breast implants back under microscope
- Microsoft: IE 9 Hits 20 Percent of All Windows 7 Users
- Ancient Forest FAIL
- Alleged Italian Mobster Caught After Woman’s Facebook Post
- Computation and Trigonometry equals Gay
- Sentence upheld in murder of ex-CLTV host’s parents
- CLASSIC: It’s Okay, They’re Not Good With Numbers
- 5-year-old left at wrong bus stop on first day of kindergarten
- Is Marriage for White People? Ralph Richard Banks on the Black Family
- Lesson #1157 – Scientific Bias
- Hulu marks first international expansion, launches in Japan for ¥1,480 a month
- WikiLeaks Prompts New Diplomatic Uproar
- Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin
- George Lee Andrews to Leave ‘Phantom’ After 23 Years
- September 01, 2011
- I had to watch a 30 second add on youtube to watch a 22 second video. -WTF
- Washing Instructions FAIL
- Windows 8: Two, Two, Two Operating Systems in One
- Why My (and Obama’s) Favorite Solar Panel Company Went Bust
- Wife of man accused of scam wants her bail money back
- Panel tallies massive waste and fraud in wartime U.S. contracts
- Like this Post
- Kevin Smith Explains Why He Had To Waste $9,316 On Movie Ads That He Didn’t Want Or Need
- Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
- No New Trial for Barry Bonds
- Gender Gap Vanishes in Female-Empowered Cultures
- Dogs Training FAIL
- Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype at a Bar, Says Report
- IBM’s new transactional memory: make-or-break time for multithreaded revolution
- Texas A&M Sets a Date to Leave Big 12
- Momnopoly
- College students take ADHD drugs for better grades
- Officials still looking for mob associate missing 5 years
- A client asked me to color some black and white pictures of his mother as a child.
Client:… - Google+ flaw allows hackers to execute DDoS attacks using Google servers
- Spotify offers API to iOS devs, opens streaming to any app
- Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype at a Bar
- Surprise: Justice Department Says AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Would Be Anticompetitive
- U.S. Files Complaint to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
- Prince Harry coming to U.S. in October for army training
- Parents’ Stress Alters Kids’ DNA, Study Suggests
- Keeping Up With The Joneses
- Progress Report and a Momentary Mekons Distraction
- Homo erectus forgot to pack its best tools when it left Africa
- Cops: Mom helps nab teen who burglarized son’s car
- What’s the Dollar Value of a Human Life?
- A client hadn’t replied to my latest proof. I asked if he’d seen it yet, to which he…
- Updated: DOJ Files Lawsuit To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
- Human Ancestors Used Fine-Crafted Tools to Butcher Zebras
- Sprint’s lobbying pays off with new ally: DOJ
- Gettin’ Ahead…
- Microsoft Explains Relationship Between Windows 8 User Interfaces
- I have a cat. I have a toaster. I was half asleep when I did this.
1. I got up, made some toast in…
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