Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.

Big News

• Bodies identified as missing Iowa cousins – Sad… very sad….

Recalls

• Freshway Foods Voluntarily Recalls Out-of-Date Sliced Apples Because of Possible Health Risk
• Mister Snacks Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Peanuts in 5oz. Packages of Yogurt Raisins

General News

• In Pursuit of John McAfee Media Are Part of Story
• Betty Whites Off Their Rockers Season Two Debuts January 8th
• D Is for Divorce Sesame Street on a Touchy Topic
• NFL player out on $500000 bond
• National Menorah lit in D.C.
• Girls creator Lena Dunhams book proposal leaks online
• Employers Hire People They Like – Shock? No, absolutely not.
• 3D-Printable Guns Face Federal Ban – I’m not surprised at all.
• Watch this Will Smith and son team up in the trailer for M. Night Shyamalans After Earth – Ooh, another M. Night Shyamalan title. I’ll see it.
• Publishers bring 195 new magazines to print in 2012 despite ongoing digital push – They understand how print magazines make money, not digital ones.
• Alice in Wonderland 2 Tim Burtons take on Alice could get a sequel – I most likely won’t be seeing it.
• NHL cancels more games due to lockout – Why not just cancel the whole season at this point?
• Bodies identified as missing Iowa cousins – Sad… very sad….
• Worker Liberation in Michigan – Wall Street Journal
• U-Va. expects accreditation update on Tuesday
• Learning Isnt the Problem

International

• Father Frost gets cold shoulder in Uzbekistan
• Air rage – Chinese screaming mad over delays
• Police warn over Apple Maps error
• VIDEO Monkey in a jacket spotted at Ikea
• EU gets Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
• Italian prime ministers surprise resignation shakes investors
• VIDEO After the revolution Life in Egypt
• 7.1-magnitude quake reported off Indonesia but no tsunami
• Muslim Brotherhoods unlikely new ally Egypts military
• C-Sections Save Kids and Moms in Tanzania
• South Koreas volunteer army wages war against internet porn
• Google Winding Down Motorola in S. Korea Laying Off About 500

Politics

• Obama Boehner meet to discuss fiscal cliff negotiations
• Entertainment Industry Mourns The End Of Hollywood Howard Berman Being Their Personal Voice In Congress
• Michelle Obamas Post-Election Style

Obits

• John Silva Maker of Telecopter Camera Dies at 92
• Irene Hughes psychic who predicted Chicagos Blizzard of 67 dead at 92

Health

• Frankie Muniz Mini-stroke was wake-up call
• Concussion Liability Costs May Rise and Not Just for N.F.L.

Science/Space

• The Brontosaurus never existed A tale from the Bone Wars
• Scientists create brain cells from human urine
• 7.1-magnitude quake reported off Indonesia but no tsunami
• We all carry hundreds of rogue mutations
• Probability of a White Christmas in the US
• Plants Grow Differently in Zero Gravity
• Fertility Drop-Off Surprises Women Over 40
• Your Help Needed to Study Andromeda Galaxy
• Oyster Mushroom Molecule Kills Cancer Cells
• Deadliest Sea Snake Is 2 Separate Species
• Startup Spotlight Oroeco tackles climate change one purchase at a time
• US Air Force readies X37-B space plane for a third classified flight
• Christmas Carp Prefer to Float North-South
• Visualized Carina Nebula captured with a 268-megapixel camera
• Why Human-Neanderthal Sex Is Tricky to Prove

Financial

• McDonalds surprises with US sales gain shares soar
• Google Stashed $2B in Taxes in the Bermuda Triangle in 2011
• Panasonic still has more fixed assets than Apple needs to sell them to survive
• Huawei spending $93 million on software R D facility in Helsinki Finland
• HSBC to pay $1.9bn in US deal – Means my rates will go up somehow…
• Debt and deficit lessons from 1917

Historical

• In Photos Oldest Images of a Pharaoh
• Dec. 10 1944 Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity
• eBay seller crafts toy memorabilia for film classics that were never aimed at kids
• Map out the 1940 Axis attack on London with the Bomb Sight project
• Debt and deficit lessons from 1917

Tips and Tricks

• Windows 8 Tip Share Apps Between Multiple Accounts
• No cheap flights Look for train bus tickets.

Gaming

• The Last of Us pre-order bonuses detailed trailer unveiled
• Dark Souls 2 to be more understandable
• Valve working on Dota 2 for tablets

Gadgets

• Google offering $99 Chromebooks to classrooms for the holidays

Law

• Dear Recording Industry Rampant Piracy Is Deader Than Your Outdated Metrics
• Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style
• Indiana Jones Crystal Skull Lawsuit Raises Questions of Hoax
• Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark File-Sharing Case
• Pirate Bay proxy in legal threat

Patents

• Trolls are behind more than half of all patent lawsuits in the U.S.

Technology

• Nerdery Heres What A Rack Of 160 Mac Minis Looks Like
• 10 Unusual Movie Technologies
• 10 Unlikely and Surprising Kickstarter Successes of 2012
• What US Apple Factory Means for Workers
• Robots need apps too – ‘I Robot’ Begins!
• 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours
• Syrian rebels build homemade tank out of car chassis game controller
• US Air Force may be secretly developing next generation of stealth drones – I would hope they’re doing it in secret. Isn’t the whole point of stealth to not be noticed.
• MIT researchers may have found a replacement for silicon processors with new transistor
• IBM manufactures light-based nanophotonic chips to let the terabytes flow
• My stolen iPhone could end up in your stocking this Christmas

Internet

• Why the world is arguing over who runs the internet
• Yahoo Strikes Media Deal With NBC Sports
• Instagram completely removes photos from inside of Twitter
• Microwave vies with fiber for high-frequency trading – Microseconds matter in trading.
• Church of England to tweet Christmas sermons as part of holiday Twitter campaign
• Facebook can now change policies without user approval after low voter turnout
• How You Killed Facebook Democracy A Short History – I voted, nobody can bitch to me about our rights being taken away.
• Google Doodle celebrates Ada Lovelace the worlds first computer programmer

Mobile

• Windows Phone sales reportedly surge to 4.2 million so far in Q4
• Our first-ever glimpse at the BlackBerry 10 launch device

Rumors

• iPhone 5S to reportedly launch in June with super HD display NFC and 6-8 color options
• Why the Mac Pro will likely be Apples big
• Google mulling over Motorola set-top box division sell-off report

Software/Apps

• Apples iOS Maps app is so bad it can kill you Australian police warn
• FTC voices concerns over mobile apps for kids
• How Michael Lopp Instagrams
• Microsoft no longer bothering to deny Office on iPad
• Instagram Releases New Filter In Update – The same dsay that Twitter releases filters for its photos…
• Twitter photos Put a filter on it
• Microsoft support leaks some references to Office for iOS

Security

• 10 security stories that shaped 2012
• Hacker group leaks details of 1.6 million accounts tied to NASA Federal Reserve Interpol and others
• Microphone surveillance on the rise in public buses throughout US
• DARPA-funded research could block internal bleeding with expanding foam

Developer

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• GitHubs Tips for Building Faster Websites
• Facebook adds online portal tools to marketing developers program

London/Britain

• Father and son jailed for rapes
• Bransons £1m Virgin survival bet
• Bank hit by $300m in Iran fines
• Arts Council faces £11.6m cuts
• London taxis to offer free ad-supported Wi-Fi from next year
• Church of England to tweet Christmas sermons as part of holiday Twitter campaign
• Map out the 1940 Axis attack on London with the Bomb Sight project
• Lightship LV93
• Man dies after attack outside pub
• Tube anniversary Oyster card sold
• London estates get £1m funding
• London Midland on warning list
• Revamped Dickens museum reopens
• Gallery Shard Evacuated In Fire Drill
• Film-maker raped sleeping woman
• New Years Eve Free Tube Travel Poster – Signs of Xmas on the Tube
• VIDEO Jude Law on preserving creativity

Odd

• 9 Maine students suspended over pot-laced cookies

Funny

• Dash cam shows handcuffed burglary suspect steal police car VIDEO
• Lesson #1601 – Vegas
• Take This Job Shove It Post About It on Facebook
• Me making conversation on a blind date
• When my friends post their pictures from TBOX
• Making out with my boyfriend
• Office Wars Just Got Supr Srs
• Spare Me Your Insignificant Lifes Details
• Go Play Lawn Darts or Something – That’s one way of doing it.
• Wife Wanted a Minivan Husband Wanted a Pickup
• THAT IS NOT WHERE KEGS GO
• How Construction Workers Celebrate the Season
• What Do Austrian Politicians Wear
• The Helicopter Ride
• Im Sick of Going Beyond Bed Bath
• Achoo
• I Want My MurrayTV
• So THATS How Babies are Made
• Why Hasnt This Been Done Yet – I’d pay $5 for a Morgan Freeman Siri voice.
• Nothing in This Country Makes Any Damn Sense
• How to Cat-Proof Your Christmas Tree
• Earth Balance
• Professor Chaos

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT CHARLIE

• Tonight The Human Ken Doll – Nobody fucking cares.

Chicagoland

• Witness helps cops catch suspect in North Side sex assault robbery
• Courtside Ministries ready to offer a prayer for the most desperate
• McCullough sentenced to natural life in prison in 7-year-olds 1957 slaying
• Father son killed in Joliet shootout younger brother wounded
• Off-duty officer shot superintendent vows to catch attacker
• North Center Chamber Assures Residents Its No Scrooge
• South Sides Hot Sauce Boss to Sell at United Center
• Will Sandi Jackson Run for Disgraced Husbands Seat Never Say Never
• Vanecko judge with ties to Daley Devine I can be fair impartial
• Pencil This In Robbie Gould At AJ Hudsons Public House Solo In The 2nd City Home Alone For The Holidays
• Emanuel declines to fire back at Preckwinkle
• Teen Shot Dead in Humboldt Park Family Tried to Keep Him Out of Trouble
• Illinois Pastry Chef Sets Record For Worlds Longest Candy Cane
• Pedestrian Struck By Drunk Chicago Streets And San Worker Receives $6.25 Million Settlement From City
• Irene Hughes psychic who predicted Chicagos Blizzard of 67 dead at 92
• Chicago police chase shoot at suspected gunman near police headquarters
• IHSA rules Mooseheart basketball players eligible to play
• When my friends post their pictures from TBOX
• Me making conversation on a blind date
• When I see someone eating Doughnut Vault
• Me explaining TBOX
• When I mistakenly think I see my friend on the Blue line
• Me at Holiday Parties
• When I realize Baconfest tix go on sale today
• When my friends pick me up from OHare
• Candidate for Cicero president files lawsuit alleging intimidation harassment

Total Number of stories: 182

Look for more stories tomorrow.