Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.

Big News

• Newegg defeats shopping cart patent troll that sued nearly 50 online retailers
• Boy Scouts of America Says Discussing End to Ban on Gay Members – Oh, too much pressure got to them I see.

Recalls

• Freedom Trading Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Super Power a Product Marketed as a Dietary Supplement to Support Male Sexual Performance Due to Undeclared Potentially Hazardous Active Ingredient
• The Hartz Mountain Corporation is voluntarily withdrawing its Hartz Chicken Chews and Hartz Oinkies Pig Skin Twists wrapped with Chicken for dogs
• Sprouter Northwest Recalls Alfafa Brocco Sandwich Sprouts Clover Spicy Sprouts Because of Possible Health Risk

General News

• Oil spill feared after barges crash on Mississippi
• Dick Van Dyke is honored with lifetime achievement award at SAG ceremony
• Plane crashes into Hudson 2 rescued

International

• Ariel Sharon Brain Scan Shows Response to Stimuli
• Icelandic victory on Icesave cash
• Delhi gang-rape suspect faces maximum three-year jail term – WTF? The culture in India needs to change.
• Gas leak proves fatal at Samsung chip plant in Korea
• Threat to UK embassy in Tripoli
• Baby blown into freezing sea saved by amazing response of rescuers

Politics

• Hillary Clinton coy about White House ambitions on 60 Minutes
• Senate to vote on Sandy relief – It’s taken them long enough to get the vote done.

Health

• Can Yoga Ease Troubled Minds
• Baby ill It might not be the flu
• Eclampsia 5 things to know

Science/Space

• New Yorks heat may be warming Siberia – Global Warming at its finest.
• Iran has launched monkey into space claims news agency
• How Should We Write about Statistics in Public
• Doomed Dolphin Speaks to New Yorks Vibrant Wildlife
• US Military Building Space Robot to Recycle Satellites Video – WALL-E!
• Study Bolsters Quantum Vibration Scent Theory
• Nanoparticle Leads to World Record for Battery Storage
• Micro-Needles Allow Painless DNA Vaccines
• Earthquake Early Warning System Demonstration
• Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers
• A climate seesaw in the Atlantic
• Stomach Botox Injections Dont Help Weight Loss
• Snowy Falls at Yosemite National Park

Financial

• No Boeing 787 battery fault found
• Caterpillar pessimistic on any demand increase for 2013
• Yahoo Beats Earnings Estimates on Flattish Revenue
• Employers Increasingly Rely on Internal Referrals in Hiring
• Digital maven named as new CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment – Maybe now we can get some Warner Brothers stuff on streaming.
• Seagate invests $40 million in Virident forges flash pact

Historical

• Did Rise of Ancient Human Ancestor Lead to New Stone Tools
• MIDI turns 30 a revolutionary open music standard lives on
• Changing Times
• Pride and Prejudice Turns 200

Gaming

• Madden simulation picks Baltimore Ravens as Super Bowl XLVII winners

Gadgets

• HPs first Chromebook specs leaked
• Odor and VOC Eliminating Air Purifier

Law

• Preserve CIA prisons as evidence lawyers for 9/11 suspects ask
• Anti-Science Bills Weighed in Four States – Anti-Science? Must be fucking republican states. Fucking idiots.
• Court Again Says Its Okay For The Feds To Snoop Through Your Digital Info Without Telling You – Fuck.

Patents

• Newegg defeats shopping cart patent troll that sued nearly 50 online retailers

Technology

• Lenovo backtracks on possible RIM bid
• World Memory Competitors Show Off Pure Brain Storage
• Intels SSD 525 Bringing iSandForce to mSATA

Internet

• Andrew Sullivan Nate Silver and the shifting balance of power for media brands
• New Republic Old Pay Wall
• Google sheds light on how it handles government requests for your email
• A century-old Yiddish newspaper takes to the web

Social

• BAMF Dad WIN

Mobile

• Nokia Lumia 620

Rumors

• Report China may end ban on game consoles

Software/Apps

• Microsoft to launch the new Office commercially on January 29
• BlackBerry World music and video offerings detailed next day downloads for TV
• Brotherly Love Prompts Young Entrepreneurs Autism App
• Top grossing iPad app ComiXology pushes its digital comics service into Europe scoop
• Apple removes Vine as Editors Choice in App Store amid hardcore porn concerns

Security

• What Google does when a government requests your data

London/Britain/UK

• Royal hoax DJs show cancelled in wake of nurse suicide
• Teenager stabbed to death in Pimlico
• Cyclists killed in Bristol hit and run were married couple
• Apple users launch U.K. legal case against Google tracking
• Mayor accused over Murdoch dinner
• Scotland facing enormous costs for independent security

Personal

• Balancing tradeoffs across different customers
• The Great Corgi Escape with Ferris and Dot
• Lucasfilm postpones Star Wars Episode II and III 3D focusing on Abrams-directed Episode VII

Odd

• Library solves digital age puppy potty problem
• Truck overturns at intersection narrowly missing motorcyclist VIDEO
• Car bursts through wave of sea foam nearly hits police VIDEO

Funny

• January 28 2013
• Who Needs a Real Truck Bed Anyway
• Cant Argue With That Logic
• Tetris Shelves WIN – Hmm… I need some of that shelving.
• Well Theres Gradians Too.
• Texas Instruments in the Hizzouse Yo
• Redneck Repair French Style
• If You Say So Doctor
• Well Duh
• You Ruined EVERYTHING
• Natures Abomination
• Statue of idiocy – *FacePalm*
• Well This Will Be Fun
• Not Like a Boss
• The Combination You Never Asked For
• AlphaMatt

Chicagoland

• Halvorson says she wont join Democrats on assault weapons ban – Hmm…. not very Democratic of her…
• CO leak suspected in 2 deaths They were very good people
• Protesters call for adult trauma center at U. of C. four arrested
• Area schools ahead of curve in opportunities for disabled athletes – This is something that Chicagoland should be ahead in.
• West Side shooting injures boy 17
• Trains moving again on South Shore Line
• There Are 264000 Square Meters Of Garden In Chicago
• Half Of The Nations Top Delivery Foods Are From Chicago
• Charity to Raffle Off $2.45 Million Gold Coast Penthouse

Total Number of stories: 103

Look for more stories tomorrow.