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Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.

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General News

• Deadline for benefits e-payments is here
• Hotel sued over body found in water tank – As it should be.
• Family so happy California couple found in Peru
• Best Buys anti-showrooming price match starts Sunday 3/3
• The Vatican commemorates Pope with Comic Sans photo album

International

• Most Venezuelans think Hugo Chavez will recover poll finds
• Death Toll From Bangladesh Unrest Reaches 44
• China executes four foreign nationals convicted of Mekong river murders
• Eurozone unemployment hits 11.9%
• Air New Zealand pilot fell asleep
• Congolese flee rival rebel clashes
• Arrests in Hong Kong over milk curbs
• President rejects new polls in Italy
• In pictures Berlin Wall protest

Politics

• Can Democrats Turn Texas and Arizona Blue by 2016
• Obama urges Supreme Court to overturn California same-sex marriage ban
• Furloughs could lower leave benefits but probably not retirement
• Budget cuts The GAO says its found some
• Obama says he cant force sequester deal Im not a dictator – live updates

Obits

• Bruce Reynolds Dies at 81 Planned Great Train Robbery
• Actor Dale Robertson dies

Health

• VIDEO Woman delivers own baby at 27 weeks

Science/Space

• How to get along for 500 days alone together
• NASAs discovery of third radiation belt around Earth will mean rewriting textbooks – Unless you preach from a creationist text. Then science has no place in your curriculum.
• SpaceX Dragon launched into orbit but suffers problem
• Duke melds two rats minds through the internet Spock may not approve
• Having Fun with the 4-Color Theorem
• What Happens When Forest Elephants Are Wiped Out in an Ecosystem

Financial

• Best Buy founder drops plans for buyout
• Logitech cuts 140 jobs worldwide in efforts to refocus on mobility
• Personal income plummets 3.6% in January – USA TODAY
• Amtrak loses a ton of money each year. It doesnt have to.

Historical

• A London Pope How The Papacy Could Have Moved To England

Tips and Tricks

• Web Hosting – Factors to Consider Before Signing Up

Gaming

• Omerta City of Gangsters demo smuggled onto Xbox 360
• SimCity gambles on disaster in new footage
• Angry Birds dev Rovio making tie-in game for DreamWorks The Croods
• Rumor Star Wars 1313 on hold

Gadgets

• The Raspberry Pi One year since launch one million sold
• OLPC XO-4 surfaces at the FCC right on cue
• T-Shirts Apparel Science Its Gotten Us This Far
• Gadgets Thor Ice Scraper

Law

• Judge orders Fort Hood shooter to stand trial in 3 months
• David Einhorn drops his lawsuit against Apple
• The Details Of What Information The Police Can Suck Out Of Your Phone
• Kim Dotcom Loses Appeal Concerning Extradition

Patents

• Apple award cut to $599 million in Samsung patent case
• New Apple patent filing shows dual-iPad notebook magnetic iPad stand – Hmm.. looks a lot like the Microsoft Courier project…

Technology

• iPhone + $5 Macro Lens = Awesome Snowflake Shots
• Game Of Thrones Director Im 100% Opposed To The Piracy I Just Said Helps My Show Survive
• Pushing the wrong button Bad button placement leads to drone crashes
• Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 Review OC Oriented Orange Overkill
• Sodium-air battery shows potential
• Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5
• HGST unites nanoimprints self-assembling molecules to double hard drive space

Internet

• Do Not Track privacy activists face off with the online ad industry
• System Used By New Six Strikes CAS Falsely Identifies Game Mods As NBC TV Shows – Just as internet filters block out “breast cancer” due to the word “breast”.

Social

• Is it ethical to not hire smokers
• Did you give up social media for Lent – No. I don’t give up anything for Lent, mostly because I’m not Catholic.
• Manning shocked by
• Video Games Do Not Cause Violence According To Former FBI Profiler – I could’ve told you that. If that was the case EVERY game would be a killer. Most of us aren’t. We don’t have the ability to move from our chairs. Idiotic Politicians.
• Facebook invites press to come see a new look for News Feed on March 7th

Mobile

• AT T launches all-out attack on T-Mobile in new ad
• FCC will investigate cellphone unlocking ban says chairman

Software/Apps

• YouTube adds AirPlay competitor to iOS app
• Google+ Hangouts adds sign language app and new shortcuts for disabled users

Security

• Dropbox users report spam emails after last years data breach
• Web bug allows data dump on PCs
• HTML5 browser exploit could let pranksters fill up your hard drive
• Apple blacklists older versions of Flash plugin due to security risk – And this is how it is to be done folks. Protect the most vulnerable users. by default.

Developer

• W3Conf Videos Showcase the Latest in Web Standards

London/Britain/UK

• Faulty pass girl barred from bus
• Prescription charges to rise by 20p – it’s a 2.6% rise. For many this will not matter, but for those on the lower end of the spectrum will feel it the most.
• Andrew Marr leaves hospital nearly two months after suffering a stroke
• Caterpillar haul seized at Gatwick airport

Personal

• Meet The Cotton Candy Wizard Video
• Daring Fireball Open and Shut

Odd

• 37-pound tubby tabby Biscuit in need of home
• Meet Gladys Stones Ohio zoos youngest gorilla
• Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him
• Dennis Rodman plastered on the front page of North Koreas state newspaper

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

• Quebec language police try to ban pasta from Italian restaurant menu
• Bad Fresh Prince rap triggers Pa. lockdown – Oh lordy our society has turned into fear mongers more than I thought we already were. We’re just so fucked up.

Funny

• March 01 2013
• Snowpocalypse Preparation

Chicagoland

• Illinois Bill To Outlaw Online Anonymity Dropped Because People Got Pissed Off Not Because Its Unconstitutional – Just to annoy illinois, I’ll create an anonymous account and start pissing them off more.
• Concordia students say degrees not what they paid for – How is Concordia different from any other college? None of them prepare you for the real world.
• Chicago State president fires back at board
• Cardinal George bids farewell to pope
• Cook County hikes cigarette tax by $1 per pack
• Toddler woman seriously hurt in Austin crash
• Crawford injured as Blackhawks extend streak to 20
• Chicago high school hero who took bullets for pal gets medal
• Drew Peterson in his third prison in a week
• Deadly bat disease spreads to Illinois
• Pope Benedict XVI Portraits Removed from Chicago Churches
• Body pulled from South Branch of Chicago River
• High School ROTC Student Missing Since Thursday Morning
• Telephone in Every Room
• Injured Baby Gorilla Nayembi Might Not Rejoin Mother Troop at Zoo – That’s sad.
• Gag order issued in Joliet double homicide case
• Quinn largest union reach deal with raises

Total Number of stories: 103

Look for more stories tomorrow.