Daily Run Down 10/24/2011
24 Oct 2011Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Obama’s New Housing Policy: An Underwhelming Refinance Program
- Meet Big Soda: Worse than Big Tobacco?
- Obama offers mortgage relief on Western trip
(AP) - IPhone 4S first phone for low-power Bluetooth
(AP) - Steve Jobs bio debuts at No. 1 spot on bestseller lists
- Little Things Can Cause Big Fights When A Relative Dies
- Probably Bad News: Biased Journalism At Its Finest
- Chicago man gets 30 years in prison for shooting Joliet father after fight with sons
- Did NextEarthquake.com Really Forecast the Hawaii Earthquake?
(LiveScience.com) - Swami Bhaktipada, Ex-Hare Krishna Leader, Dies at 74
- My nonfat salted caramel mocha wasn’t salty enough. -MamaBear
- The App Store
- Telescopes solve 2,000-year-old stellar mystery
(AP) - Assange: Financial blockade may close WikiLeaks
(AP) - Prenatal Exposure to Antidepressants Makes Rats Act Autistic
- Illegal Yapper Zapper blocks cell phone signals up to a 30-foot radius
(Digital Trends) - The New Thinking on How to Put Baby Safely to Bed
- Want to Understand Drought? Follow the Water!
- Wired Enterprise Welcomes Robert McMillan and Eric Smalley
- Last Place Awards Shouldn’t Count FAIL
- New jetpacks, costumes and social features makes Jetpack Joyride even more awesome
- United States Of AmericaAAAAAAH!: The State Map Guide To Scary Things
- Apple releases 80-minute Steve Jobs tribute video
(Yahoo! News) - Great Idea, Poor Execution
- Much Ado About Joss Whedon Shooting Shakespeare
- Parenting: It’s a Little Late To Be Using Those, Isn’t It?
- New app aims to reduce stress with slow breathing
(Reuters) - What Could Wal-Mart Do With Square Mobile Credit Card Readers? [Updated]
- Pete Seeger enters 9th decade as an activist
(AP) - Man proposes to girlfriend in-flight
- A+ Students
- FedEx Sees E-Commerce Driving Record Holiday Volume
- Wrap a Drill Bit in Copper Wire or Tape to Prevent Over-Drilling [Clever Uses]
- Schaumburg church members find newborn in shopping bag
- My DVD player won’t let me skip the previews. -regorhtims
- Who Has the Money and Power? (Infographic)
- RT @McGarrysGhost: Not that I get a lot of milage out of this personally, but the 40 hour work week went into effect on this day in 1940.
- Dark Matter Gets Darker: New Measurements Confound Scientists
- Valve boss explains Steam pricing experiments
- E-diots
- Siri’s Biased
- Win £85k Worth of Cool Gadgets for Christmas
- YouTube Link Title Tells You Where YouTube Links Lead, Lets You Watch Them Without Leaving the Current Page [User Scripts]
- RT @thepandabrigade: Hate not the player.. http://t.co/k72E9KLF
- RT @mediatemple: Random fact: Ink jet ink costs on average around $8000 per gallon! ^SC
- Tons of marijuana found at Indianapolis warehouse
- Teen had ‘backpack of hatred’
- Crash Vega
- …IN BED
- Brian Grazer Says Dark Tower Budget Cuts Mean “It’s Gonna Get Made”
- Jobs admired Facebook CEO, had one last talk with Bill Gates
- Imagine That
- Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
- School Appropriate FAIL
- BPA in pregnant women might affect kids’ behavior
(AP) - Nexus One takes a bite out of Ice Cream Sandwich, chews slowly
- Apology FAIL
- Apple upgrades MacBook Pro line with faster processors, graphics cards, and more storage
- A Village’s Tensions Over a Man Missing for 24 Years
- Google wants you to add writers on Google+, so do writers
- Unshelved on Monday, October 24, 2011
- infotainment
- Precious Waters: To Get Water to Cities, California Farmers Paid Not to Plant
- Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz
- Everything
- October 24, 2011
- More than 100 dead after Turkey earthquake
- Hispanic voters: Stick with Obama or go with GOP?
(AP) - Bears topple Bucs in London
- Apple posts Celebrating Steve event video
- IndyCar honors life of Dan Wheldon
- Valve and Xsolla set up more than 450,000 cash kiosks in Russia
- Pre-order Sonic Generations on Steam, receive classic Sonic games free
- 7.2 quake in Turkey kills 138, collapses buildings
(AP) - Bus driver ticketed in crash that injured 13 students in Grayslake
- Modern Warfare 3′s dedicated PC servers are unranked, unlocks controlled by admin
- Federal courthouse cook arrested on drug charges
- DJ collapses, dies in Schaumburg
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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