Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Apple finally going after ipods.com domain
• SanDisk rep demos HP TouchPad at Computex [Video]
• Verizon targets customers running mobile tethering apps
• Avast! Free Antivirus for Mac beta now available
• ‘Devil Worm’ Takes Animal Life to New Depths
• Beware of Dog FAIL
• Barnes & Noble’s Touchscreen Ereader Now Shipping
• UFOs Spotted Over California?
• Shaquille O’Neal Retires
• Sony’s E3 keynote to be streamed live in PlayStation Home
• Probably Bad News: Obvious Criminal is Obvious
• Shine a laser at a plane, face an $11,000 fine
• Console Manufacturers Pressure Google Into Pulling Emulators From The Android Market
• 30+ Infected Apps Pulled From Android Market
• Oracle Donates OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation
• June 1: Official Start of the Hurricane Season
• Rant and Repent!
• Bring your own device trend spooks enterprise security folks
• HP CEO Léo Apotheker Says He Won’t Ship TouchPad Till It’s Perfect
• Twitter Partners With Photobucket On Photos And Firefox On Search
• Samsung Chromebook goes on sale early at Gilt (update: sold out)
• Understanding Simple Concepts FAIL
• Space-Time Ripples: How Scientists Could Detect Gravity Waves
• Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos
• US tornado missing down to 7
  (AFP)
• Nokia now worth three months of Apple cash
• Human Ancestor Guys Stayed Home While Gals Cruised
• Worms from Hell? Deepest Multicellular Life Found
• New Trier parents sue: Son barred from graduation
• I Can Think of at Least 1 Reason Not to go on Vacation
• Hulu, Miramax deal means Netflix, Hulu Plus both add Pulp Fiction and more starting today
• Tumblr Users Can Now Record & Share Music With Soundcloud
• New Variant of ‘Mac Defender’ Quickly Evades Apple’s Security Update as Cat-and-Mouse Game Begins
• Apple Files for ‘iCloud’ Trademark in Europe
• New Nokia Warning Has Investors Feeling Skittish
• Hurricane Season Begins: What to Expect
• Office 365 to Launch in June?
• iPWN! Case for the iPhone 4
• Why PROTECT IP Breaks The Internet
• OTA Gingerbread 2.3 update now available for Droid X
• Chicago cancels July 4 fireworks, leaves shows to Navy Pier
• World Internet Traffic To Top 966 Exabytes In 2015
• Terrible Place For a Power Button
• Defending Your Friend FAIL
• Update on Merger of Downstate Library Systems
• Free “Plants vs. Zombies” download from Amazon’s AppStore for Android till midnight May 31
• What Happens If We Hear Something
• Eccentricity
• RevoDrive Hybrid pairs HDD with SSD on PCIe
• Carmageddon: Reincarnation announced
• Stop Signs FAIL
• Apple’s Data Center Makes A Google Maps Appearance
• Apple cracks down on MacDefender, prevents malware downloads with daily quarantine list
• Taking a Look At High-End Programmer Salaries
• Apple’s $1 billion super datacenter goes live in Google Earth ahead of iCloud announcement
• uBeam wireless power startup shows prototype at D9 (video hands-on)
• M Thru F: Words of Wisdom
• Soccer Pitch FAIL
• Windows 7 can be tablet-friendly after all [video]
• Hidden App Leads to MacBook Thief Identification and Arrest
• June 1, 1890: Census Bureau Can Finally Keep Tabs on Growing Nation
• Why Older Planets Are More Likely to Harbor Life
• So Much Fuss Over A Photo That The Photographer Has No Problem With People Copying
• Computer science grads fielding ‘multiple job offers’
• Report indicates iOS users stick with platform due to ‘lock-in effect’
• Computex 2011: Some Time with Promise’s Thunderbolt Devices
• Toyota recalls 105,784 Prius cars to fix gearbox, steering
  (Reuters)
• “The Glass is,” by Classes
• Computex 2011: This is the Antec P280
• Former Google CEO ‘screwed up’ on Facebook threat
  (AP)
• Activision announces Call of Duty Elite, a social network gaming experience [video]
• More on Intel’s Thin Mini-ITX Standard
• Ericsson wins contract worth up to $1.2 billion in Australia
  (Reuters)
• Google’s Eric Schmidt: If you care about security, get a Mac, not a PC. (Joel Falconer/The Next Web)
• June 01, 2011
• Advertising Discovery
• US Supremes add ‘willful blindness’ to patent law
• Civil union law takes effect
• Eric Schmidt: Get a Mac, dump your PC
• Steve Ballmer’s approval rating slides among Microsoft staff
• @ D9: Schmidt Says Google Pulled Back From Potentially Dangerous Technology (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent)
• Workers’ comp reforms revived, sent to Quinn
• Testing finds unapproved pesticides on cilantro
• Google’s Eric Schmidt “We’ve just renewed a Maps relationship with Apple”
• A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions
• As civil unions law begins, long lines expected
• DC Comics announces same-day release for digital, print
• TDK starts mass production of transparent OLEDs, makes texting and walking safer
• ComEd plan for rate hikes passes; Quinn plans to veto
• Parenting FAIL
• 3 California condors die of lead poisoning
  (AP)
• TelePwned!
• Danes ban busty babes, Oz okays for teens
• Cat Food FAIL
• Please, Call Them Ultrabooks
• PlayStation Vita (formerly NGP) and other predictions for Sony’s E3 2011 keynote
• Man-Size Meteor Burns Up Over Georgia
• Statue of King Tut’s Grandfather Discovered
• 1,600-plus Florida beachgoers stung by jellyfish, county officials say

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News:

• Housecats reportedly are a scourge to mockingbirds.
• Google is adding interior photos of businesses to Google Places.
• New York City is going to lay off 4,100 teachers.
• Al Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama Bin Laden.
• Charles Darwin’s travels may have lead to illness and ultimately his death.
• Osama Bin Laden lived in Pakistan for at least five years.
• Famed Golfer Seve ballesteros has died at the age of 54.
• The World’s Largest CMOS sensor may allow Doctors to see and treat cancer.
• Johnny Depp, star of the Pirates 3D Movies, can only see in 2D.

Historical News:

• In 1278, Emperor Duanzong of Song, of China, dies.
• In 1326, Joan I of France is born.
• In 1450, Jack Cade’s rebellion commenced against King Henry VI.
• In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, famed Chemist, is tried and guillotined.
• In 1819, King Kamehameha I of Hawaii dies.
• In 1821, William Henry Vanderbilt, businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family, is born.
• In 1847, Oscar Hammerstein I, grandfather of the famed Hammerstein, is born.
• In 1873, British Philosopher John Stuart Mill dies.
• In 1884, future President Harry S. Truman is born.
• In 1886, John Styth Pemberton begins selling his carbonated beverage ‘coca-cola’.
• In 1899, The Irish Literary Theatre opens in Dublin.
• In 1912, Paramount Pictures is founded.
• In 1913, Bob Clampett, famed animator, is born.
• In 1926, famed English Naturalist, David Attenborough, is born.
• In 1933, Mohandas Ghandi begins a 21-day fast to protest British oppression in India.
• In 1945, World War II’s V-E Day is declared after Germany surrenders.
• In 1945, Wilhelm Rediess SS and Police leader during the occupation of Norway dies due to a self-inflicted gunshot.
• In 1945, Bernhard Rust, Minister of Science, Education and Culture of the Nazi Party dies due to a self-inflicted gunshot.
• In 1945, Josef Terboven, Commissioner of Norway during the Nazi Occupation, dies after detonating a 50kg bomb in a bunker.
• In 1964, Actress Melissa Gilbert is born.
• In 1969, Remington Kellogg, American Naturalist and director of the National Museum, dies.
• In 1976, The first Steel Roller coaster, Revolution, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• In 1984, The Thames Barrier, the second largest flood barrier, opens.
• In 1988, Science Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein dies.
• In 2009, Dom DiMaggio, Brother of Joe DiMaggio, dies.

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Today was the funeral/wake/burial of my grandfather. All went well, it was a great day outside, he would’ve loved it. I wasn’t too bad off, until they started to play ‘Taps’, since he was in the Army during the Korean war (1951-1953). Thanks for all of the well wishes from everybody. Here is the Obituary,

“Bruce A. Olson, beloved husband of Kay Olson, nee Schmitt; loving father of Daryl S. (Donna) Olson, Cynthia (Wayne) Dixon, Shari (Raymond) Cheehy and the late Brian Christopher Olson; grandfather of 12; and great-grandfather of one. Visitation Wednesday 10 a.m. until time of service 1 p.m. at Adams-Winterfield & Sullivan Funeral Home, 4343 Main St. (1 blk So. Of Ogden Ave.) Downers Grove. Interment Clarendon Hills Cemetery. 630-968-1000″.

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