Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.
Big News
- IRS raising limits on retirement contributions for 2013
- Best videos of 2012 Spiderman skin stops a bullet
- Efforts by Apple and Foxconn to Improve Electronics Industry Labor Conditions Starting to Take Hold
Recalls
- Four Retailers Agree to Stop Sale and Voluntarily Recall Nap Nanny Recliners Due to Five Infant Deaths
- Voluntary Worldwide Field Corrective Action Issued for the T-piece Circuit used on GE Healthcares Giraffe and Panda
- Baby recliner recall involves 150000 units
- Meijer Recalls Falls Creek Kids Denim Jeans Due to Choking Hazard
General News
- Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey
- Kate Winslet marries in New York
- Nation Christmas storms all over US blamed for 3 deaths – Indianapolis Star
- Brother hang tight firefighter told
- Arizona plan would arm principals – WTF, they they seriously think this will help? Fucking Idiots.
- IRS raising limits on retirement contributions for 2013
- Ex-President George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care
- Lisa P. Jackson of E.P.A. to Step Down
- Libraries Try to Update the Bookstore Model
- US heading over fiscal cliff
- US snow storm claims more lives
International
- China Opens Worlds Longest Rail Route
- India gang-rape victim flown to Singapore hospital
- Burger King Returns To France
- How women rebuilt Rwanda
- Clarke sets Australia run record
- China looks to meat exports to boost ties to Arab world
- France says wont defend Central African Republic government against rebels – Typical French… always running away…
- Russias Putin suggests he will sign U.S. adoption ban
- Spanish bank has negative value
- Fatal blast at Ukraine university
- Cambodia murder ruling condemned
- China opens GPS-substitute to public – The Standard GPS wouldn’t be good enough, huh?
- iPhone 5 launches in Africa Caribbean and Southeast Asia
- Tigers Making Comeback in Asia
- David Camerons moves could make EU fall apart says Herman Van Rompuy
- South Africas Zuma in dog row
Politics
- Sen. Harry Reid U.S. poised to go off fiscal cliff
- As Senate votes on warrantless wiretapping opponents offer fixes
Health
- Antidepressants to treat grief Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes – Of Course they would suggest it.
- Brain scan can sort dementia by type
- Kissing Really Does Spread Mono – No Shit.
- STD Heat Map [Infographic]
- Is Sugar Toxic 5 Myths Explained
Science/Space
- Keep Dreaming 13 Technologies You Wont See in 2013
- First Alien Earth Will Be Found in 2013 Experts Say
- Will Humans Keep Evolving on Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Permafrost microbes survive conditions similar to those on Mars
- Antarctic lake project called off
- Huge flame shell bed discovered
- Nature Wars
- Antarctic lake research abandoned
- 200-Year-Old Caterpillar Automaton Still Crawls
- Geneticists studying Connecticut shooters DNA
- New Machine Bridges Classical and Quantum Computing
- Raccoon Tumor Outbreak May Give Cancer Clues
- Mysterious Itch Cells Found
- Astronaut Records 1st Original Song on Space Station
- Pictures Race Against Time to Build a New Tomb for Chernobyl
- Hawaiian Island Dissolving From Within
- Mars Rover Curiosity Spends Holidays at Grandmas House
- Panda Cub Gets New Toys
Financial
- Apple CEO Tim Cooks 2012 salary drops 99% without stock awards – I think I could handle a salary of $4.17 Million without Stock options. I’d somehow manage to survive.
- Yen at 27-month low versus dollar
- Rajaratnam agrees to pay $1.5 million disgorgement in SEC case
Historical
- In Pictures Londons Lost Department Stores
- Mathematicians Century-Old Secrets Unlocked
- 2750-year-old temple discovered in Israel
Tips and Tricks
Gaming
- Grand Theft Auto 5 screens offer fighter escorts swimming with sharks
- Rumor Tomb Raider to include multiplayer
Gadgets
- Sonos Playbar outed in new FCC filing
- The Only Perfect Temperature Electric French Press
- Star Trek Webcam
- Star Trek Webcam
- All Your Bartending Tools in One
- Toshibas new Lytro-like mobile image sensor could revolutionize smartphone photography
- Review G-Drive mobile hard drive features USB 3 FireWire 800
- Pebble smartwatch stops by FCC tries to prove its not vaporware
- Santa gets technical Over 17M iOS and Android devices activated Christmas Day
- Westinghouse 110-inch 4K TV to ship alongside 65 55 and 50-inch models in Q1
Reviews
Law
Technology
- Raspberry Pi hack lets Siri open garage doors
- Mac mini said to be first US-built computer in Apples domestic production push – People previously thought it was the Mac Pro… unless Apple releases a Press Release I don’t know if we’ll ever know.
- Heres How Darpas Robot Ship Will Hunt Silent Subs
- DOJ Taking Down Sites For Infringement… While Infringing Content Is Available Via Its Own Network – This Makes me think that they are in on the infringement and using it as a honeypot.
- Flurry 17 million iOS Android devices activated on Christmas day
Internet
- Amazon most satisfying website to shop survey
- At peak Amazon sold a whopping 306 items per second in 2012
- For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad a Kindle gets 5 a Galaxy gets 3 and a Surface gets 0.22
Mobile
Rumors
- Apple reportedly evaluating IGZO display tech for next-gen iPhones and iPads
- Toshiba to launch 20-megapixel image chip for digital cameras
- Leaked BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM new task manager
Software/Apps
- Xbox Music Feature Focus Free Streaming
- Microsoft Over 150000 Apps in Windows Phone Store
- How Canada has become Americas mobile app guinea pig
- Bluestacks for Mac hits beta injects a little Google in your Apple
London/Britain/UK
- Hospital plan to spot abuse victims
- Going viral
- Papers reflect on shop sales rush
- Thames Valley flood woes continue
- VIDEO Abuse alert system overdue
- VIDEO Major train delays at Paddington
- Regulars attempt to buy £350k pub – That’s one way of keeping it alive.
- Minister wants magazine diets axed – This makes sense, therefore it won’t happen.
- New suspect in Michaela murder
- 2012 Review of the Year David Cameron
- Tributes to M6 car crash family
- Thieves steal gas from ambulances – Fucking idiots. There are cameras all over the place. Morons.
- Third norovirus bug visitor ban
- Thames Barrier to be closed again
- Rail services face major delays
- Family pays tribute to young brothers killed along with aunt in M6 crash
- Baubles
Personal
Odd
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Funny
- DAT TAG
- Whoever Thought of This Must Have a Head Full of Hot Air
- You. Are. Screwed.
- How To Get Laid This New Years Eve
- Best Friends Can Be a Headache
- The Doors Open Upward All Right
- Lesson #1618 – The States Part III
- Well This Floor is Uninhabitable
- – OUCH!
- Twas the Day After Christmas…
- Who Wore it Better
- The Multi-Purpose Swing Set
- And Then We Go Both Go to Sleep
- Unbelievable…
- Americas Got Swag
- Sometimes We All Need Somebody to Lean On
- My Dad was Guilty of Breaking ALL of These Rules
- GUMMY BEAR NOOOOO
- Friendzone T-Shirt
- Had Enough of Your Attitude Kid – I would do the same thing.
- Fifty Shade of Neigh…
- Time to Stay Inside
- Hold On to Yo Butts
- Duck Dynasty
Chicagoland
- Robbins Police chief charged with DUI for second time
- Bank robber in suit and tie hits fourth bank downtown
- Man killed in Gage Park neighborhood
- 2 ex-jail guards sue Kendall County claim sexual harassment
- Shorter lame-duck session makes pension reform deal less likely
- New 24/7 Big Brother Gym Ditches Staff for Cameras
Total Number of stories: 149
Look for more stories tomorrow.