daily links: november 2005

11.1.05
CNN.com—Bush puts forth new nominee to take O'Connor's place on the supreme court
USA Today—Methodist lesbian minister defrocked by the church's internal court
New Scientist—MIT professor fired for making up data
MSNBC—Bill Gates pledges a quarter of a billion dollars to find a vaccine for malaria
CBS News—Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism
Fox News—FCC gives seal of approval to two major telecom mergers


11.2.05
MSNBC—Democrats force closed-door senate session to discuss pre-war intelligence on Iraq in light of Libby's indictment
USA Today—Judge in DeLay case removed because of his past donations to democratic candidates. So only a republican judge can hear the case? That hardly seems fair.
ABCnews.com—Microsoft plans web version of Windows. Wow, first you copy Apple, now you copy Google. Can't you do anything original?
CNN.com—Wal-Mart's Black Friday deals leaked
New Scientist—Scientists developing technology capable of live speech translation
CBS News—Interest rates raised to their highest level in years, with more increases likely


11.3.05
MSNBC—Panda cub at National Zoo goes on limited display
Fox News—Denver residents approve measure to make it legal for adults to possess up to an ounce of marijuana
CNN.com—Wikipedia may make its content available in media other than the web
New Scientist—NASA may have detected earliest starlight
USA Today—Aaron Brown leaving CNN, giving the primetime slot to Anderson Cooper
ABCnews.com—Spate of wild deer attacks in California has wildlife officials concerned


11.4.05
CNN.com—Emails show an unconcerned Brown as New Orleans drowned
USA Today—Grave of Copernicus located in Polish church
Fox News—Las Vegas mayor believes that vandals should have their thumbs cut off on television
MSNBC—Amazon will soon allow users to purchase individual pages of books for viewing on their computers
ABCnews.com—Bush's poll numbers continue to fall
CBS News—Son of Miami police chief nabbed in marijuana sting


11.7.05
CBS News—Bush says Alito is mainstream, but remember, he is the father of all lies
USA Today—White House staff ordered to take refresher courses in ethics in the wake of the Libby indictments
CNN.com—Apple sold 1 million videos through the iTunes music store in the first 20 days of offering them
Fox News—Warren Beatty denied entrance to Schwarzenegger campaign event
MSNBC—Senate makes digital tv mandatory by 2009
SecurityFocus—Hackers using Sony copy protection software to cheat at World of Warcraft


11.8.05
CBS News—Grokster shuts down
MSNBC—A new deal between Yahoo and TiVo will make the internet search giant's content available to TiVo subscribers through their DVR
USA Today—Bush says that US agents do not engage in torture, but still opposes a ban on torture proposed by the senate
Sports Illustrated—The Eagles suspend Terrell Owens for the rest of the season
Fox News—Nobel prize winner sentenced to two years in jail for vehicular manslaughter
New Scientist—Drug designed to lower cholesterol may also cure a certain type of learning disability


11.9.05
USA Today—Democrats want assurances that Bush will not offer a pardon to Libby
CNN.com—The popularity of Apple's iPod spurred over 1 million Windows users to switch to a Mac in the past year
ABCnews.com—Kansas school board rewrites standards to be more friendly to the teaching of Intelligent Design (aka Creationism 2.0)
MSNBC—DirecTV to sell commerical-free episodes from NBC and CBS on-demand for $.99 each
Fox News—Texas bans gay marriage
CBS News—Microsoft considering stake in AOL


11.10.05
ABCnews.com—Early example of proto-Hebrew alphabet found at dig in Israel. That's my current professor, P. Kyle McCarter, in the picture; the press conference for this story made him late for class last night.
USA Today—GOP abandons arctic oil drilling to ensure passage of budget bill
CNN.com—Judith Miller retires
CBS News—Ozzy to perform for the queen
Fox News—Michael Brown finally let go by FEMA
MSNBC—8 school board members in Pennsylvania who backed Intelligent Design lose their seats in elections


11.11.05
ABCnews.com—Frist thinks leak about secret CIA prisons at "black sites" are worse than the prisons themselves. Wow, I thought Bush was out of touch.
MSNBC—Man buys piece of virtual property in Project Entropia for $100,000
Fox News—New virus takes advantage of Sony's CD copy protection scheme
BBC News—Peter Jackson's King Kong movie may be remade into a 3D movie after its initial release
CNN.com—Boeing jet breaks record for longest nonstop flight
CBS News—Pat Robertson says that Pennsylvania voters who voted out school board members who supported Intelligent Design were rejecting god


11.21.05
CNN.com—Former aide to Colin Powell says that Cheney's flexibility on torture led to abuses of detainees in US facilities
USA Today—Rumsfeld says that he is not Woodward's source
ABCnews.com—Austrian mountain citizens to use a series of large mirrors to bring more sunlight to their town during the winter months
MSNBC—Lawsuits allege that Yahoo and Match.com use employees as fake daters who contac people just as their subscriptions are about to expire to trick them into renewing their contracts
Fox News—Alito filibuster still possible. If the democrats had any guts, they'd say it was definite and start the fight right now.
BBC News—UN to make $100 laptops available to poorer nations


11.22.05
CBS News—Proposals in Massachusetts would require everyone who could afford it to purchase health insurance
MSNBC—TiVo will allow subscribers to transfer recorded television shows to their iPod or PSP
CNN.com—Drunk woman tries to open door of in-flight airplane so she could have a smoke
New Scientist—Players from the US rack up the most victories in the gaming olympics in Singapore
Fox News—GM announces plans to lay off 30,000 workers by 2008
USA Today—DeLay aide pleads guilty to conspiracy charges


11.23.05
ABCnews.com—Florida Marlins threaten to relocate
CNN.com—Google donates $3 million to world library project
USA Today—Vatican says homosexuals must have overcome their homosexual tendencies for three years before being admitted to the priesthood
BBC News—British source says that Bush discussed bombing the al-Jazeera network headquarters with Tony Blair
MSNBC—Bush knew there was no credible link between Iraq and 9.11 days after the September terrorist attacks
CBS News—Ted Koppel ends 25 year Nightline run


11.28.05
USA Today—Some students who were supposed to attend New Orleans universities this year would rather stay at their temporary schools than return to the city next semester
Fox News—Tennessee high school seizes copies of student newspaper that contained articles about contraceptives and tattoos
MSNBC—The Monday after Thanksgiving has become as important to web retailers as the Thursday after is to brick and mortar stores
BBC News—America's Army video game, created by the US military, is evolving from marketing tool to training platform
CNN.com—Two congressmen injured during visit to Iraq
CBS News—Creator of Stove Top Stuffing dies


11.29.05
CNN.com—Republican congressman resigns after admitting to taking over $2 million in bribes
MSNBC—New observations show that one of Saturn's rings is actually a spiral
Wired News—Bose engineers develop new suspension system for cars
USA Today—First public school reopens in New Orleans
ABCnews.com—PS3 will allow parents to place restrictions on games based on the maturity ratings
CBS News—Teen girl with peanut allergy dies after kissing boyfriend who had just eaten peanut butter


11.30.05
CNN.com—Canadian prime minister ousted with no-confidence vote
USA Today—A rebuilt New Orleans intends to offer free wireless internet throughout the city
BBC News—Firefox planning big marketing push to coincide with the release of version 1.5
ABCnews.com—Single letter domain names may soon be available
CBS News—One of the authors behind the Berenstain Bears dies
Fox News—Man runs onto Philadelphia Eagles' field to spread his mother's ashes

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