Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing
• Attorney charged with hiring hit man to kill girlfriend’s ex-husband
• China Arrests 2,000 in Food-Safety Crackdown
• Maximum property tax hike sought for Chicago public schools
• August 06, 2011
• Dazzling Northern Lights Possible for Northern US This Weekend
• Ex-Leader of Ukraine Is Held for Contempt; Activists See Purge in Progress
• Pilot says she didn’t realize she entered restricted airspace
• What's In A Name: The Importance Of Pseudonymity & The Dangers Of Requiring 'Real Names'
• Sprinkler Placement FAIL
• Mattel’s Lawsuit To Claim Ownership Of Bratz Comes Back To Bite Big Time: Told To Pay $309 Million
• Plane’s landing gear catches fire at Chicago’s O’Hare
• On Jumptap’s network, Android dominates more U.S. states than iOS or BlackBerry
• Man dies trying to rescue boy from Fox River
• Monkey Business: The All-Time Smartest Apes
  (LiveScience.com)
• FBI’s first app helps parents report missing children
• Joliet police chief retires after 30-year career
• Exclusive: Groupon Will Dump Controversial ACSOI Accounting in Amended IPO Filing
• ISPs Accused Of Hijacking Search Terms, Redirecting Browser Results To Marketer’s Websites
• Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS
• Dear World: Self-Driving Cars Will Get Into Accidents Too (Though, This One Wasn’t The Computer’s Fault)
• New Orleans cops convicted of post-Katrina shootings
• Army to reduce deployment time in war zone to 9 months
• Police, City Use Ridiculous 'Cyberstalking' Claim To Try To Identify & Jail Creator Of Mocking Videos
• Motorola Droid 3 review
• Woman Reunited with Missing Cat 72 Days After Joplin Tornado
  (ContributorNetwork)
• Gas leak forces evacuation in Evanston
• 6 Mysteries of Jupiter NASA’s New Spacecraft May Solve
• Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship
• NASA's Juno Blasts Off To Investigate Jupiter

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Here 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

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Tammy Duckworth resigns from VA, may run for Congress
• Audiobooks finally come to Windows Phone*
• Drug cartel weapons come from U.S.
• Czechs return rare wild horses to the wild
  (AP)
• The Only Heated Outdoor Cat House
• New Kindle Series Uses Digital Tricks To Entice Tweens To Read The Classics
• Romantic Picture FAIL
• VP Of Retail Ron Johnson Leaving Apple for J.C. Penney
• Iowa town threatened by floodwaters
• Small Crustaceans Use Whale-Like Diving Belt
• Google de-feathers infected ‘Angry Birds’ apps
• W3C Launches Community Groups to Help Create Web Standards
• Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power
• Probably Bad News: Not a Fine Day To Be This Guy
• Satan Must Be Cold Today: Apple Starts Selling Unlocked GSM iPhone 4
• How NASA Prepares for the Final Space Shuttle Launch
• Chillingo shows off new titles at E3
• That Will Buff Out: Ugly and Proud, I See
• Planes – The New Disney Movie
• Oddly Specific: This Is Some Handicrap
• June 14, 1962: Western Europe Officially Joins the Space Race
• Carl Gardner, Coasters lead singer, dies at 83
  (AP)
• How Quora Recruited “Super 8” Director J.J. Abrams
• Drug Policy Answer Fail
• Unlocked iPhone 4 hits America, works with any supported GSM carrier worldwide
• Nokia Signs Patent License Agreement With Apple
• CLASSIC: Nap Location FAIL
• Lesson #987 – Poses
• Unshelved on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
• Spanish Sports-Streaming Site Fights U.S. Government Web Seizures
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• Court: Buying A Personal Name As A Keyword For Advertising Is Not A Publicity Rights Violation
• WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate
• Once Against Gay Marriage, 4 Senators Say They Will Back It
• World War II bomber plane crashes in cornfield near Oswego
• June 14, 2011
• Apple’s Back to School Promo Launching Wednesday With $100 iTunes Gift Cards?
• Church Van FAIL
• HP may launch new NFC-enabled tablets and phones later this year
• Probably Bad News: Accountability FAIL
• US facing legal challenge to domain name seizures
• 70 Years Later, ‘Citizen Kane’ Coming to Blu-ray
• Motorola Televation turns cable TV into IPTV streams for the whole home
• Hackers break into Senate computers
  (Reuters)
• Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper
• Keep It Simple
• Spare Tire FAIL
• Face of Gandhi Found On Google Mars
• 8 New Substances Added to List of Carcinogens
• Man Tries To Patent Godly Powers; Justifies It By Pointing To Software & Business Method Patents

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Julian Assange has applied for a trademark of his name.
• A Danish Family’s Boat has been hijacked in the Indian Ocean.
• The Nintendo 3DS has launched in Japan is already sold out and hacked.
• Current Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the next Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel sat down and discussed the mayoral transition.
• 50 Billion Alien Planets may inhabit The Milky Way Galaxy.
• ICANN is not allowing government vetoes over top level domains.
• Intel has releaed it’s 510 Series SSD with 6Gbps SATA.
• Those who are blind use their visual cortex for language.
• Scientists have purchased some Rocket Rides for Suborbital Space trips.
• The head of Department of Homeland Security’s ICE Division, John Morton, believes it’s ok to ignore the constitution to protect companies.
• Sony is touting a 17.7 Megapixel CMOS sensor for Cell phones How Crappy would those pictures be though..
• The woes at the London Stock Exchange cannot be blamed on Linux.
• Tiny spy planes could mimic birds and insects.
• Asteroid could have delivered ammonia to the early earth.
• Sometimes an Invasive Species can be a good thing.
• Random House will change their model to fit more with Apple’s iBooks store.
• Actress Jane Russell, star of the 40′s and 50′s, has died at the age of 89.
• Microsoft is killing the Danger service on May 31st.
• Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan claims that Illinois State Police must release the list of gun owners.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

J

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• The UK should be getting Dragon Search and Dragon Dictation.
• The First 90 Miles of a 284-mile High-Speed railroad, from Chicago to S. Lous, could begin this fall.
• The Brookfield Zoo has adopted Five Pelicans that were trapped in the BP Oil Spill.
• Scientists have located the most Massive star ever.
• According to the FCC, Broadband deployment is not occurring fast enough.
• Honda will bring plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles to the US in 2012.
• Depression may increase changes of getting Alzheimer’s.
• A Congressman, Edolphus Towns, has put forth a resolution that would protect citizens who videotape or photograph police in public places.
• Astronomers have some evidence that a comet impacted Neptune approximately 200-years-ago.
• BP has been caught photoshopping oil spill cleanup photos.
• The Google Nexus One is no longer available for purchase from Google.
• The Navy has shot down a robotic aircraft with laser beams.
• Facebook has officially surpassed 500 Million users.
• A Creepy ‘Human Fish’ can live up to 100 years.
• A US Judge in Connecticut has ruled that Cheerleading is not an ‘official’ sport.
• Skype has been updated to work in the background.
• Future Planes could land upright like birds.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• The depths of the Himalayan mountain roots has been revealed.
• Something is killing lobsters in Florida.
• To those who are allergic to peanuts, banning them on planes is no laughing matter.
• Finland is contemplating legalizing the use of unsecured Wi-Fi.

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I was thinking about this after I ordered my MacBook, and it was sent via Fedex out of Memphis. I’m assuming that most companies keep warehouses very close to Memphis, TN of ready to go, in stock products. They would want to do this since the central hub for worldwide distribution of Fedex is in Memphis… just a random thought…

Sources for this thought, a new macbook, o’hare aiport, seeing planes flying overhead.

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