daily links: march 2011

3.3.11
CNN.com—DNA tests inconclusive on bone thought to belong to Amelia Earhart
Fox News—Supreme Court rules that church's anti-gay picketing of soldiers' funerals is protected speech under the First Amendment
CBS News—College student suing FBI for planting a GPS tracking device on his car without a warrant
USA Today—Apple reveals iPad 2 and announces that it will start shipping next week
ABCnews.com—Former Jeopardy champ and now-congressman from New Jersey beats IBM's Watson at trivia game
MSNBC—Justin Bieber's hair clippings sell for more than $40,000 on eBay


3.4.11
USA Today—Harvard to allow ROTC back on its campus 41 years after banishing it in the midst of the Vietnam War
CNN.com—Tea Party leader threatens to run a candidate against Boehner in the primaries if he doesn't follow the Tea Party agenda
MSNBC—More than 50 Android apps found to be infected with malware
Fox News—Utah ponders a return to the gold standard
CBS News—Brigham Young basketball star suspended for having sex, a violation of the Mormon university's honor code
ABCnews.com—Wisconsin governor threatens to lay off 1,500 government workers if the legislature doesn't pass his budget bill, which eliminates bargaining rights for unionized state employees


3.7.11
USA Today—UNC beats Duke in final game of regular season to take the ACC title
CBS News—NASA scientist says he has found fossilized remains of alien life on a meteorite
Fox News—21 airlines fined in price fixing scheme
CNN.com—Samsung exec admits that iPad 2 specs make their competing tablet "inadequate"
ABCnews.com—High school basketball player dies on the court seconds after making the winning shot for his team
MSNBC—New nanoscope can see smallest objects ever


3.8.11
CBS News—Obama considers tapping US oil reserves
MSNBC—Google uses "kill switch" to remotely remove apps from Android handsets that it had determined to be dangerous
CNN.com—Facebook introduces commenting system that can be easily integrated into non-Facebook site, further extending the reach of the social networking behemoth
Fox News—NASA's $425 million Glory climate change observation satellite lost during launch
ABCnews.com—Former French president Chirac to stand trial for corruption charges from his term as mayor of Paris
USA Today—Microsoft sets up web site to beg users to stop using IE6 and upgrade to a more modern browser


3.9.11
USA Today—Several Wisconsin cities have banned snowball throwing
CBS News—NPR CEO resigns amid hidden camera scandal
ABCnews.com—Mansion believed to have inspired The Great Gatsby to be razed in order to build a new subdivision
CNN.com—Blagojevich asks judge to cancel his retrial on corruption charges to save taxpayer money
MSNBC—Illinois to abolish the death penalty
Fox News—Facebook to allow streaming movie rentals directly from its site


3.10.11
USA Today—Wisconsin Republicans use legislative trick to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees without having a quorum
CNN.com—Banks may limit debit card transactions to amounts as low as $50
CBS News—Charlie Sheen sues Warner Bros. for $100 million
ABCnews.com—Some libraries boycotting Harper-Collins because of their revised policies on lending e-books
Fox News—Privacy rights advocates say body scanners constitute unreasonable search
BBC News—Spider-Man musical delayed again as director Julie Taymor leaves the show


3.11.11
CNN.com—Earthquake in Japan causes massive destruction
CBS News—Giffords has no memory of her shooting, but is able to speak in complete sentences now
ABCnews.com—Obama dodges question about whether the Pentagon's humiliating treatment of Bradley Manning, accused of giving secret documents to WikiLeaks, is appropriate
MSNBC—Couple jailed after posted a picture of a stolen diamond ring on Faceboook
Fox News—California teen survives jump from the Golden Gate Bridge
BBC News—Julianne Moore to play Sarah Palin in HBO biopic


3.14.11
USA Today—Radiation testing on TSA body scanners show that some of them emit ten times more radiation than expected
Fox News—Director of horror films held after corpse found inside his home
BBC News—Denmark to allow people to send a text message to pay for postage on standard letters
CBS News—Sniper in rural Virginia kills two police officers before being killed in a shootout
MSNBC—Japan's massive earthquake increases speed of Earth's rotation and causes the day to get 1.8 microseconds shorter
ABCnews.com—Casino tour bus crashes in NYC, killing 14


3.15.11
New York Times—Interactive before and after satellite pictures of Japan
CNN.com—Adobe releases drag and drop tool that converts Flash videos to HTML 5
Fox News—New theory on location of Atlantis puts it in southern Spain
ABCnews.com—New service allows you to send emails or leave voicemails for strangers based on their license plates
USA Today—Hacker group Anonymous releases Bank of America emails involving the destruction of documents
CBS News—Michigan poised to pass bill that would declare financial martial law on troubled cities and school districts


3.16.11
BBC News—Tom Waits to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
CBS News—Jon Bon Jovi says that Steve Jobs is killing the music industry with iTunes. No, dummy, he's trying to save it. It's the record labels that are killing it.
AppleInsider—Microsoft officially cancels the Zune
CNN.com—As a way of combating the debt left over from the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee is considering selling tv rights to primary debates
Fox News—Tony Hawk leaves his wife for the wife of his best friend/business partner
MSNBC—Gilbert Gottfried fired as the voice of the AFLAC duck after making jokes about Japan on Twitter


3.17.11
Fox News—Florida doing away with tenure for school teachers
USA Today—Microsoft releases IE9 and Mozilla releases Firefox 4 on same day
ABCnews.com—Banks testing $5 ATM fees for non-customers
MSNBC—Facebook kills the comment button, but will now allow users to edit their posts
CNN.com—Largest known nugget of gold sells at auction for $400,000
BBC News—Man who played Alfred, Batman's butler, in several movies, dies at 94


3.18.11
MSNBC—New Visa service puts it in competition with PayPal
CNN.com—Kindle adding page numbers for e-books
CBS News—House votes to eliminate funding for NPR (and for AmeriCorps, although it's hard to find a news story that mentions that part), but the bill is likely to fail in the Senate
ABCnews.com—Netflix may be getting in the business of producing original content, putting it in direct competition with HBO
USA Today—Google unveils major revamp to its iPhone app
Fox News—Pastor accused of denying communion to parishoners who didn't donate their tax refunds to the church


3.21.11
Fox News—US and allies initiate military strikes on Libya in an attempt to enforce a no-fly zone
MSNBC—Rare red Tibetan mastiff sells for $1.5 million, the most ever paid for a dog
USA Today—.xxx top level domain approved for porn sites
CNN.com—Wyclef Jean shot in the hand in Haiti
BBC News—Angry Birds developer seeking IPO
CBS News—Former secretary of state Warren Christopher dies


3.22.11
BBC News—Filming finally begins on Hobbit movies
CBS News—Native American male teen suspended from high school for having long hair, although he says he keeps it long for religious and cultural reasons
Fox News—AT&T to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion
USA Today—Gene therapy may reverse some Parkinson's symptoms
CNN.com—Twitter turns 5
MSNBC—Sammy Hagar thinks he was abducted by aliens


3.23.11
MSNBC—South Dakota passes law mandating a three day wait for an abortion
ABCnews.com—Chris Brown storms off set of Good Morning America after being questioned about his assault charge from 2009
CNN.com—RIM's PlayBook tablet to be available April 19
Fox News—NASA unveils Orion spacecraft, destined for the next round of manned moon missions
CBS News—Pawn Stars cast member arrested after barroom brawl
BBC News—Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble, claiming the Nook infringes on the software giant's patents


3.24.11
USA Today—Howard Stern sues Sirius, claiming he is owed stock bonuses for helping the company exceed subscriber targets
CNN.com—Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79
Fox News—Cowboys wide receiver issued a trespass warning at a Dallas mall for wearing his baggy pants too low
CBS News—Rear view cameras on cars could become mandatory
MSNBC—Toyota delays launch of the Prius minivan in wake of the Japan quake
BBC News—Pet Shop Boys unveil ballet project


3.25.11
CNN.com—OED adds "words" like OMG, LOL, and FYI
USA Today—Browns fan sues NFL over the player lockout
MSNBC—Target suing gay rights group, saying the group is harassing customers and cutting down on their business
CBS News—Billionaire charged with molesting a minor
Fox News—North Carolina man claims to have video of Bigfoot
BBC News—MySpace has lost 10 million users in the first month of 2011, and 50 million since last year


3.28.11
Fox News—Ships powered by water could make manned missions to Mars affordable
CNN.com—NYC to dispute most recent census numbers
USA Today—Supreme Court to hear class action suit against Walmart from female employees who claim they were systematically discriminated against because of their gender
CBS News—Single winner in $312 million Mega Millions jackpot
ABCnews.com—Rise in Medicare premiums could translate to no cost of living increase in Social Security for millions of Americans who depend on both
MSNBC—Inventor of Super Glue dies at 94


3.29.11
MSNBC—AMC fails to reach a deal with Mad Men creator in time to bring the series back for a 2011 run
USA Today—Apple's developers conference to focus on software; new iPhone may not debut until next year
CNN.com—Flaw discovered in VW Jetta where using the horn can cause the car to turn off completely
Fox News—South Carolina considers banning inmates from using social media sites
CBS News—Donald Trump comes out as a birther
BBC News—Amazon unveils cloud-based music player and storage locker


3.30.11
MSNBC—California town library considers getting rid of its books
BBC News—Tesla sues BBC's Top Gear, claiming the show for auto enthusiasts rigged a test of the Tesla Roadster
Fox News—Whale that killed trainer returning to show at SeaWorld
CNN.com—Justice Scalia fined for rear-ending another motorist
CBS News—Paul Allen slams Bill Gates in new memoir
ABCnews.com—Arizona makes it a crime to have an abortion based on the race or sex of the fetus


3.31.11
USA Today—Gates says he will not send US ground troops to Libya
CNN.com—Google unveils +1 button to compete with Facebook's Like button
Fox News—Two skydivers die after midair collision
MSNBC—Hacker destroys entire season of tv show
CBS News—Man charges through window at Pittsburgh concert and falls to his death
ABCnews.com—New service creates fake girlfriends who will interact with you on your Facebook page

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