daily links: may 2011

5.2.11
CNN.com—Osama bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan
MSNBC—Man unknowingly liveblogs bin Laden raid on his Twitter feed
Fox News—Rick Springfield arrested on DUI charges
USA Today—Consumer Reports backs Apple's claim that the white iPhone 4 is the same thickness as the black one, despite claims on the internet to the contrary
CBS News—SETI telescope array to temporarily cease operations in face of state budget crisis
ABCnews.com—Flavor Flav arrested in Los Angeles


5.3.11
Fox News—Michael Bloomberg suggests sending all new immigrants to the US to Detroit
MSNBC—Final Endeavor launch delayed again
CNN.com—News of bin Laden's death sets record for number of tweets per second on Twitter
USA Today—GOP senator to serve in Afghanistan in fulfillment of his National Guard obligations
BBC News—Sony suspends its SOE online gaming system in wake of PlayStation Network attack
CBS News—US considers releasing photos of Osama's corpse


5.4.11
CNN.com—AT&T begins instituting usage caps for broadband and DSL service
CBS News—NYC selects Nissan as new vendor for cab fleet
MSNBC—Woman sues her ex-husband for $12 million, claiming he was impotent during their marriage
Fox News—Army testing new environmentally friendly bullets
BBC News—South Park creators garner 14 Tony nominations for their Book of Mormon musical
USA Today—Nintendo repackages Wii and cuts the price to $150


5.5.11
CBS News—Hitters in baseball do better on cloudy days
USA Today—New York lawmakers want to ban indoor tanning for anyone under 18
BBC News—US and EU may build new spacecraft together
CNN.com—Last known WWI combat veteran dies at 110
MSNBC—Pampers revamps new diaper liner after complaints from consumers
Fox News—First American in space to be honored on new stamp


5.6.11
MSNBC—New mineral found in 4.5 billion year old meteorite found in Africa
CNN.com—Facebook to pay users to watch certain ads
CBS News—Previously unknown stealth helicopter may have been used in bin Laden raid
USA Today—Climate change blamed for lower crop yields
Fox News—Child mauled by leopard at zoo after he scales fence to get closer to the animal's cage
BBC News—Hacker group Anonymous says it is not responsible for the recent attacks on Sony


5.9.11
BBC News—Warner Music, world's third largest music firm, bought by industrial investment group which will turn it into a private company
ABCnews.com—Rental company being sued for using webcams on rented laptops to illicitly spy on the people who rented them
CNN.com—Chevrolet says the Volt can go 1000 miles on a single 9.3 gallon tank of gas
Fox News—Japanese working on "kissing box", which will allow people to kiss over the internet. Sort of. Not really.
USA Today—Mozilla might not comply with government request to remove third party addon that allows users to circumvent federal anti-piracy efforts
MSNBC—Death of man who fell off Space Shuttle launch pad ruled a suicide


5.10.11
MSNBC—Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion
CBS News—JetMan flies over Grand Canyon
CNN.com—Schwarzenegger and Shriver announce separation
Fox News—Federal judge blocks Utah immigration law
ABCnews.com—Apple is named world's most valuable brand
USA Today—Blizzard says Diablo III beta will be available this summer


5.11.11
USA Today—World's largest cicada brood begins hatching in the southern US
CBS News—Google introduces Chromebook laptop
BBC News—New monkey SIV vaccine could lead to fresh approaches to preventing HIV in humans
Fox News—Bristol Palin claims plastic surgery on her face was to correct a jaw problem
CNN.com—Lady Gaga partners with makers of FarmVille to create GagaVille
MSNBC—Pink Floyd reissuing all 14 of its studio albums


5.12.11
USA Today—Some states want to take driver's licenses away from teens who drop out of high school
MSNBC—Teen arrested after posting list of hot girls at his high school on Facebook
Fox News—New insect repellant is thousands of times stronger than DEET
CNN.com—Facebook hired PR firm to spread negative emails about Google
CBS News—The Beatles catalog being available on iTunes may be mostly responsible for uptick in music sales
ABCnews.com—Ashton Kutcher reportedly replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men


5.13.11
Fox News—Biologists think they have discovered a new type of lifeform
USA Today—Bezos hints that Amazon may release a tablet computer to compliment its Kindle e-reader
MSNBC—X Prize Foundation offering $10 million for Star Trek-inspired tricorder device
ABCnews.com—Ohio mom convicted of murdering her baby in the microwave
CNN.com—Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor sells for $27 million
CBS News—Developer to release web-based version of popular Angry Birds game


5.16.11
USA Today—Pageant mom injects her 8 year old daughter with Botox
Fox News—IMF head held without bail in sexual assault case
EW.com—Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to reboot the Flintstones for Fox
CNN.com—Parents name their child after Facebook's "Like" button
CBS News—Just in case you're a little slow and can't recognize a publicity stunt when you see one: Donald Trump is not running for president in 2012
ABCnews.com—Pakistan says it will return the debris of the secret helicopter used in the Osama raid


5.17.11
CNN.com—On the heels of his split with Shriver, Schwarzenegger admits that he fathered a child with a staff member 10 years ago
CBS News—Baseball great Harmon Killebrew dies at 74
MSNBC—Internet traffic to Netflix in the evening is greater than the bandwidth used for general web browsing
Fox News—13 year old boy interrogated by Secret Service over Facebook post
BBC News—Sony reveals compensation package for user affected by PlayStation Network outage
USA Today—Jerry Lewis to retire from MDA telethon after 45 years


5.18.11
MSNBC—Woman kicked off train by police for talking on her phone for 16 straight hours
CNN.com—Yale suspends George Bush's former fraternity after videos of their raunchy chants are posted on YouTube
ABCnews.com—Flight numbers of planes used in 9.11 attacks to be permanently retired by United
USA Today—Despite declining sales, consumers still spend more on CDs than music downloads
Fox News—Privacy flaw affects nearly 100% of Android smartphones
CBS News—Scientists claim that sperm whales speak in accents


5.19.11
BBC News—$2 billion cosmic ray detector attached to the outside of the ISS
CBS News—The Plain Writing Act attempts to remove jargon from documents produced by federal agencies for the public
MSNBC—Winner of $2 million lottery jackpot still eligible to receive food stamps over a year later because of a loophole in Michigan law
CNN.com—Linkedin stock price doubles in IPO
Fox News—Director Lars von Trier banned from Cannes after saying he sympathizes with Hitler
USA Today—Lady Gaga teaming with Starbucks to promote her new album


5.20.11
CNN.com—Former teammate says he witnessed Lance Armstrong injecting performance-enhancing drugs before races
ABCnews.com—Wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage dies in car accident
AppleInsider—Explosion at plant that manufactures iPad 2s could strain supplies of the device
USA Today—Media billionaire John Malone makes bid for Barnes & Noble
BBC News—Scientists say they have confirmed the existence of dark energy
MSNBC—Microsoft giving free Xbox 360 to students who buy a Windows machine at $699 or more


5.23.11
CBS News—NYC bans smoking in public outdoor spaces
ABCnews.com—As you no doubt noticed, the world did not end over the weekend, and the preacher who predicted it is "mystified"
Fox News—Apple-centric tech columnist accused of hitting wife with iPhone
CNN.com—Police arrest suspect in case of Giants fan who was beaten into a coma outside Dodgers Stadium
BBC News—Terrence Malick's Tree of Life wins Palm d'Or at Cannes
USA Today—On 10th anniversary of the openings of its first retail stores, Apple overhauls the customer experience by integrating iPads as interactive kiosks


5.24.11
ABCnews.com—Tornado kills more than 100 in Missouri
CBS News—Jane Seymour claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered at least two more children outside of wedlock during his marriage to Maria Shriver
USA Today—Supreme Court ruling on prison overcrowding could free 40,000 inmates in California
MSNBC—Teen arrested for recording police on her cell phone
CNN.com—Russell Brand deported from Japan
BBC News—Fila buys Titleist


5.25.11
Fox News—Barry Bonds says he will pay the college tuitions of the two children of the Giants fan who was beaten into a coma at a Dodgers game
CNN.com—Judge rules that Arizona shooter Jared Loughner not competent to stand trial
MSNBC—Police want to ban smartphone apps that function as radio scanners
BBC News—NASA says it will no longer attempt to contact the Mars rover, effectively ending its mission
USA Today—Twitter buys TweetDeck
CBS News—NYPD accused of fixing tickets for numerous celebrities


5.31.11
CNN.com—Egyptian military admits that they performed "virginity checks" on detained female protestors
USA Today—Germany says it will close all its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of the Japan disaster
Fox News—Tech mogul paying two dozen bright high school students $100,000 to NOT go to college
ABCnews.com—Pharmacist faces life in prison for killing an armed man who attempted to rob his store
MSNBC—Hangover 2 has biggest opening weekend gross ever for a comedy
BBC News—Lockheed Martin hit by cyber attack

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