Daily Run Down 10/14/2011
14 Oct 2011Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Bad to Worse: Airline to Remove Plane Toilets?
- Siri limited outside the US; international improvements coming in 2012
- Worst Kept Secret Now Confirmed: Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes
- Margaret Atwood Pioneers Books Made Of Straw Rather Than Wood Pulp
- Congress, wary of Amazon’s Silk browser, demands answers on privacy
- NASA Confirms Russian Soyuz Failure Findings
- Parts of Alabama immigration law blocked by federal appeals court
- Google Will Finally Shut Down Google Buzz
- O Joy!
- Feedback loop helps your gut manage its helpful bacteria
- AutocoWrecks: By Now There Should Be An App For Carrying Things Into Mordor, Right?
- Developer does the math: only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets in the wild?
- Metra issues final fare hike plan
- Billy Corgan Founds Pro Wrestling Company
- Caught In The Act FAIL
- Why Can’t PROTECT IP Supporters Just Admit That It’s About Censorship?
- iPhone 4S Seems to Fix ‘Death Grip’ Antenna Issue
- Got my daily My Rough Life fix, only to find out some countries have drive-thru Pizza Hut. I have to…
- Motorola Xoom Family Edition includes kid-friendly apps, will hit Best Buy Sunday for $379
- Woz praises the iPhone 4S on TCTV
- Walmart Launches Over 3,500 Local Store Pages On Facebook
- Wal-Mart Beats Target, Kmart on Toy Pricing for Holiday Season
- Oxygen kept out of atmosphere until volcanoes rose above the ocean surface
- Single Men Slip Further Behind Married in Cancer Survival
(LiveScience.com) - Strong quake briefly halts Russian oil supplies to China
(Reuters) - Single Men Slip Further Behind Married in Cancer Survival
- Steve Wozniak is first in line for iPhone 4S
- ‘We do not know why system failed’ says BlackBerry CEO
- QR Codes [Comics]
- Parents who go online for pediatric health information are open to doctors’ website recommendations
- Oddly Specific: I Usually Just Flush Anyway
- Blizzard auctions off old server hardware for charity
- Oct. 14, 1858: This History Might Ring a Bell
- Soldier Who Claimed ‘Hurt Locker’ Must Be About Him SLAPPed Down
- CLASSIC: Designed By Albania’s Space Program
- Lesson #1200 – Conclusions
- Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Deal
- Winklevii Lose Again: Have To Pay Their Lawyers $13 Million
- Instapaper creator points out app caching flaw in iOS 5
- October 14, 2011
- Dorm Poster
- FCC: AT&T has little evidence merger would create jobs
- Woman wins right to Mecca trip
- How Bit.ly Now Predicts the Future
- Hulu’s Owners Unable To Find Idiots Willing To Overpay To Take Hulu Off Their Hands Before They Kill It
- FACT CHECK: Perry miscasts Romney health plan
(AP) - A bad review of me
- Germany Sought Info About FBI Spy Tool in 2007
- There I Fixed It: Toaster Hack or Lunch FAIL?
- Man: ‘I did not know it was against the law’ to beat child with belt
- CLASSIC: It’s No Fun Unless They’re Quick
- A wireless bicycle brake with 11 nines reliability
- Hulu owners ‘terminate sale process’, won’t sell to anyone
- Visualized: Google opens @Android Twitter, raises Ice Cream Sandwich effigy (video)
- Steven Sinofsky accidentally discovers Mac OS X through extensive research
- CanvasPop: iPhone 4S has ‘highest quality on board cameras on any smart phone’
- Does Google Have What It Takes To Be A Platform, Rather Than A Product, Company?
- It Couldn’t Take The Blame Anymore
- CTA closer to buying new rail cars
- FCC: AT&T failed to address how proposed T-Mobile merger will add jobs
- Sprint explains iPhone 4S unlocking policy: phones will be unlocked, then locked, then unlocked again
- Tyrannosaurus rex was much, much bigger than we thought [Dinosaurs]
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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