Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Nissan Pivo 3 extreme agility concept EV hands-on
• Silverlight Stall Microsoft Says Final Word on v5 in the Coming Weeks
• Amazon launches Spanish and Italian Kindle stores and native-language Kindle hardware
• Mozilla ponders demise of Firefox for Leopard
• Sen. Al Franken Sends a Letter to Carrier IQ CEO Larry Lenhart
• Apple Statement on Carrier IQ
• Closer to the hivemind
• Microsoft to drop Desktop App from Windows 8 ARM tablets
• Robin Williams goes all Pepe La Pew on Siri. It’s awesome.
• U.S. medical trash saving lives abroad
• First inkjet printed carbon nanotube circuit
• Sprint to Pay Clearwire Up to $1.6 Billion Over Four Years
• FAIL Nation Price Reduction FAIL
• Not My Type
• After 12 Double Standard At Its Best
• ISPs reportedly taking wrong approach to winning bandwidth battle
• Angry Birds The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio launches today optimized for Google Chrome
• Facebook status updates can now be up more than 60000 characters
• Barnes Noble reports Q2 net loss Nook worth $220 million
• Worlds Oldest Tiger Species Discovered
• Clearwire Signs Deals With Sprint Makes Debt Payment
• Cambridge University Press offers academic journal rental services
• Consumer Reports Launches iPad Subscriptions 7 New Smartphone Apps
• Retailer Tesco To Bundle Digital Movies With DVD Sales
• HTC Sprint Acknowledge Using Carrier IQ Software But Deny Snooping
• Dont let vacation days expire
• Massachusetts Sues 5 Major Banks Over Foreclosure Practices
• Federal report Arctic much worse since 2006
  AP
• 4 students dismissed from FAMU after hazing death
• Student with HIV sues private residential school for denied admission
• Family In-flight meal killed flier
• Thomson Reuters appoints new CEO
  Reuters
• Red Sox bring out Bobby Valentine as new manager
  AP
• Android 4.0 meet your granddad x86
• Tetra-Shed could change cubicles as we know it
• CEO bans email encourages social networking
• Daihatsu Pico concept commuter EV hands-on
• AT T blows a gasket calls FCC report an advocacy piece not analysis
• Verizon confirms CEO Lowell McAdam will succeed Ivan Seidenberg as Chairman
• Some non-textbook Amazon Kindle books available to rent
• How effective is the Google Apps support ecosystem The customers speak
• Tobacco Companies Think Their Trademarks Are More Important Than Your Health
• Crack This Code and Become a British Spy
• Dentist Forced Patient To Sign Away Future Copyright On Any Online Review Then Billed Him $100/Day For Negative Reviews
• Paleontologists Uncover Wyomings Formidable Fossil Frogmouth
• Voyagers travel far enough to see our own galaxy without the Suns interference
• Over 13000 computers hook into 120Gbps connection at DreamHack 2011 LAN party
• MIT helps cars communicate to reduce accidents at red lights
• Wikileaks docs reveal that governments use malware for surveillance
• Lamar Smith Tries To Defend SOPA Suggests That Infringement Is The Equivalent Of Child Porn
• FCC approves use of 400MHz spectrum for paralysis-treating medical networks
• Teen Sex May Affect Brain Development Study Suggests
• New Study Throws Dark Matter Finding Into Question
• How Scientists Cope as Climate Debate Gets Personal
• Alien Planet Is Rolling Over Forcing 4 Others to Do Same
• Unexpectedly Heavy Stars from Long Ago Puzzle Astronomers
• Two Diamonds Linked by Strange Quantum Entanglement
• Do Parents Push Kids to Succeed Infographic
• Biologists find albino among Brazil dolphins
  AP
• Controlling Robots with Cell Phone Applications
• Mysterious Metal Object Crashes Through Roof of Mass. Warehouse
• Miss. town getting natural gas after long outage
  AP
• Genetically Engineered Neurons Light Up When Firing
• Does the Moon Have a Strange Ionosphere
• Massive Black Hole Yields its Mysteries to Astronomers
• Fire Burns Differently in Space Space Station Experiment Shows
• Salmonella scare on grape tomatoes sold in Illinois
• Northwestern Memorial to add 1300 jobs
• Union leader objects to restrictions on collecting signatures on recall petition
• Misericordia’s top nun chides Rahm over free water cut-off
• City sues to end sweet Millennium Park restaurant deal
• Naperville releases map of proposed council districts
• “Otherwise do something else”
• With WP7 Mango available for all Microsoft pushes ahead with new updates
• Barnes Noble Nook business jumps 85% to $220 million
• Sensegs tactile display gets demoed on a tablet products anticipated within 24 months
• Illinois water plant hack was a false alarm
• Illinois water plant hack was denied by FBI and DHS and later proved a false alarm
• Carrier IQ Speaks
• 4 children dead in Texas mass shooting
• South Park console game to debut next year
• Apple wins one-week extension on Australian Samsung tablet ban
• Man Shoots Video of 18-Foot Great White Shark With iPhone 4S
• In Memoriam Twelve studios we lost in 2011
• Windows 8 public beta may ship in late February
• RIM adds content rating system to BlackBerry App World
• Senate Vote Against the Payroll Tax Cut Unacceptable
• Could Natural Nuclear Reactors Have Boosted Life on This and Other Planets
• PATRIOT Act Gives Foreigners Good Reason to Avoid US Clouds
• Source Designers of Tumblr
• Lesson #1249 – Recipe For Disaster
• Percentage Points
• stratagem
• Honda recalls 304035 cars globally for air bag defect
  Reuters

• The Value Is In The Relationship Not The MP3 File
• December 02 2011
• Joe Walsh said to plan district switch in 2012
• After 12 Cats Are More Interesting Than Drunk People
• How a $600 Million Search for Arctic Oil Came Up Dry
• Mark Pincus Reveals His Playbook as Zynga Hits the Road Video
• Android Store Opens In Oz But It Wont Have The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Yet
• Despite Being Pirated 4.5 Millions Times Witcher 2 Developer Refuses To Annoy Paying Customers With DRM
• Mysterious Ultra-Red Galaxies May Be Cosmic Missing Link
• The Key to Sexy Skin in Guys Revealed
• The Near Side
• Illinois ranks 7th in U.S. in reported AIDS cases
• BMW and Toyota to collaborate on future lithium-ion tech love notes
• WIN Awesome Custom Shelving Idea
• Have a Seat
• Newfound Alien Planet Hot Enough to Melt Iron
• Jobless rate falls to 8.6% lowest in 2½ years
• Dentist Who Invoiced Patient For Negative Reviews Getting Slammed On Yelp
• Verizon to pay $3.6 billion for cable spectrum
  Reuters

• Some Personality Traits Affect How You Smell
• davewiner Why Did Steve Jobs Die Fascinating. He got cancer in his 20s. When discovered it had already spread.. http//t.co/oRoSkak1
• Microsoft Flight beta applications now boarding
• Embryonic Turtles Communicate to Coordinate Hatching
• Embryonic Turtles Communicate to Coordinate Hatching
• TV isnt broken. So why is everyone trying to fix it
• BGR Interview Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on the company’s future U.S. plans
• AT T rolls out 4G LTE in parts of New York City
• Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Since March 2009
• GM offers to buy back Chevy Volts from unhappy customers
• Space Never Got Old NASA Astronaut Says
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• Transparent crab shell holds the secret to bendable screens
• Bavaria asks Apple to answer questions on Carrier IQ
• Mysterious Ultra-Red Galaxies May Be Cosmic Missing Link
• How Women Can Cut Stroke Risk Eat Fruits Veggies
• Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad… Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response
• Why does college cost so much
• Bill would expand ban on overtime pay to many more IT workers
• Rumor Valve employee wears Half-Life 3 shirt
• MTA tells New York to bring it on investigate Apples Grand Central lease
• Controversial Naperville restaurant closes
• Feds Formally Bless Googles $400 Million Admeld Deal
• Syrians Say They Are Feeling Grip of Economic Sanctions
• Markus Notch Persson steps down as lead Minecraft developer
• Load-Bearing Delivery
• Shipping Estimates on iMacs with 2 TB Hard Drives Slip to 5-7 Weeks Amid Shortages
• WWII Archives For Free Temporarily At Ancestry.com
• The Evolution of the Microprocessor [Infographic]
• Autocowrecks You Win the Game
• Evernote 2.1 for Windows Phone adds homescreen pinning templates new language support
• Colbert Takes On SOPA
• Massive Drug Tunnel Found on US and Mexico Border
• Facebook announces open engineering office in New York City
• Burning Deceased Baby Boomers Could Generate Electricity
• Puppet show and Spinal Tap
• Kindle Fire places second behind iPad
• Mom takes stand to win back baby she abandoned
• Eye Tracking Could be the Next Natural User Interface
• Two Elements Named Livermorium and Flerovium
• Trouble hearing Advanced Bionics waterproof implant is paddling your way
• Judge says hell hand down Blagojevich sentence Wednesday
• It’s That Time of Year Again
• FCC to probe San Francisco subway cell phone interruption policy
• Apple applies for digital handshake patent powered by invisible ink
• MarkdownMail 3 Adds Mail Templates and Signatures
• GuyKawasaki The worlds first sex school An instant guide http//t.co/GNQ3yF6j

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