daily links: september 2011

9.1.11
ABCnews.com—German government halts rollout of full body scanners like the ones used in US airports
Fox News—Nonprofit group accused of using government grant to open a strip club
CNN.com—GOP raffling a handgun to raise money in Gabrielle Giffords district. Stay classy!
USA Today—Chris Johnson reaches deal with Titans
MSNBC—Lindsay Lohan gets new tattoo featuring Billy Joel lyric
BBC News—Germany lifts the ban on the videogame Doom 17 years after it was originally released


9.2.11
MSNBC—Green Day frontman thrown off Southwest flight for wearing his pants too low
CNN.com—Starz content will no longer be available through Netflix's streaming service when the current contract between the two companies runs out next year
Fox News—Unmanned spaceship funded by Jeff Bezos misfires on recent test flight
ABCnews.com—US government suing most major American banks over risky investments
CBS News—Judge rules that Prince owes perfume company $4 million
BBC News—Obama gives up on tighter air quality regulations. Just like he gives up on everything that the people who elected him care about.


9.6.11
CBS News—Two men face up to 30 years in jail after falsely tweeting that local schools were under attack by armed men
MSNBC—USPS says it is dangerously close to going out of business
USA Today—FDA wants to make changes to food nutrition labels
ABCnews.com—US government suing most major American banks over risky investments
CNN.com—Project Runway spinoff focused on accessories in the works
Fox News—Scientists believe they can control the rain with lasers


9.7.11
CNN.com—Yahoo CEO ousted
Fox News—New stealth boat rides of a layer of gas
CBS News—Groupon delays IPO indefinitely
ABCnews.com—Television weatherman found sleeping in bathtub with corpse
USA Today—Madden NFL 12 sells 1.4 million copies in its first week of release
CBS News—Reese Witherspoon hit by care while jogging


9.8.11
CBS News—Google buys Zagat
CNN.com—UK to end ban on gay men donating blood
USA Today—Obama reveals $450 billion jobs creation package
Fox News—Nike to release limited edition recreation of shoe seen in Back to the Future
BBC News—Twitter claims it has passed the 100 million user mark
MSNBC—Upcoming Blu-ray release of Star Wars saga includes deleted Han and Leia scene


9.9.11
CNN.com—New law aims to overhaul the US patent system
USA Today—Ben & Jerry's release ice cream flavor based on Saturday Night Live sketch
BBC News—Meteorites may have carried most of Earth's gold
Fox News—Calling Yahoo board members "doofuses" may cost ex-CEO $10 million
CBS News—Peyton Manning may be out for the season after undergoing another neck surgery
ABCnews.com—Son of millionaire president of Marriott wins $107 million in Virginia lottery


9.11.11
when the walls fell


9.12.11
CBS News—Amazon testing out e-book rental ahead of rumored tablet launch
CNN.com—Last Borders store closing today
USA Today—Bank of America announces five year plan to cut as many as 30,000 jobs
Fox News—Hacker uses NBC Twitter account to send fake terror alerts
BBC News—HBO picks up Aaron Sorkin's new series about a cable news network
MSNBC—Founder of Project Gutenberg dies at 64


9.13.11
CBS News—300 pound man and devoted White Castle customer sues the chain because its booths aren't big enough for him
USA Today—Facebook to automatically group your friends into smart lists and make it easier to restrict post to certain groups (just like the cool but deserted Google+)
Fox News—Michigan to require doctors to keep Body Mass Index stats on the children they treat
CNN.com—Google unveils new flight search service
ABCnews.com—Tea Party supporters at debate cheer the idea of letting uninsured people die
MSNBC—Microsoft previews Windows 8


9.14.11
MSNBC—NASA unveils plans for giant new rocket
ABCnews.com—Insulin nasal spray may help Alzheimer's patients
CBS News—Group of former NFL players filing class action lawsuit against Tom Brady and the league
Fox News—Apple succeeds in getting Samsung's Galaxy tablet banned in Germany
BBC News—Hugh Jackman to perform one man show on Broadway
USA Today—Sirius XM raises price for basic subscription


9.15.11
CNN.com—Australia to offer new gender option on passports
USA Today—NFL wants to add to the patdowns that it requires fans to undergo before entering stadiums
MSNBC—Netflix loses more subscribers than expected after splitting plans and raising prices
Fox News—Dinosaur feathers found preserved in amber
BBC News—Swiss banking firm UBS says a single trader acting on his own cost them over $2 billion
ABCnews.com—Company that operates Olive Garden and Red Lobster changing their menus nationwide to reduce sodium and calories


9.16.11
CNN.com—Supreme Court blocks Texas execution at last minute
CBS News—Fans upset at changes to Blu-ray editions of the Star Wars movies
MSNBC—Several people killed in crash at Reno air show
USA Today—Convicted murderer enrolls at Tulane law school
Fox News—Dyson reveals space heater that uses jet engine technology
BBC News—Microsoft says the Flash will not be supported on Windows 8 tablets


9.19.11
Wired News—NY worker says state illegally attached a GPS unit to his car and tracked his movements even while he was on vacation with his family
CBS News—Obama's approval rating at all-time low
CNN.com—Pat Robertson says it's okay to divorce your spouse if they develop Alzheimer's
BBC News—Siemens getting out of the nuclear power business after the Fukushima disaster in Japan
USA Today—Syracuse and Pitt to join the ACC
Fox News—Ford halting production on the Crown Victoria


9.20.11
MSNBC—Netflix to spin its DVD mail service off into new company called Qwikster
USA Today—Wendy's reformulating its hamburgers
Fox News—World's largest sperm bank turning away redheaded donors
CNN.com—Obama unveils plan for $3 trillion in deficit reduction, including tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations
ABCnews.com—Peyton Manning traveled to Europe to receive controversial stem cell therapy for his injured neck
BBC News—Sigourney Weaver says her character will return in the two Avatar sequels, despite dying in the first movie


9.21.11
CBS News—Non-scientist gamers take three weeks to crowdsource solution to protein structure problem that scientists had been working on for 10 years
Fox News—Wyclef Jean says he's a fan of Sarah Palin
MSNBC—Heinz unveils new ketchup packet that's larger and easier to open
USA Today—Facebook announces more new features, while Google+ opens its doors to everyone
CNN.com—Don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the military officially abolished
ABCnews.com—California mother accused of having sex with her son's underage hockey teammates


9.22.11
Pitchfork—R.E.M. announce break up
MSNBC—Supreme Court refuses to grant stay in execution of inmate whose guilt was in serious doubt
CBS News—NFL threatens penalties for players and teams who fake injuries to delay the game
BBC News—Spielberg to delay relese of Lincoln biopic until after the 2012 election
Fox News—Italian scientists on trial for manslaughter after failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300
ABCnews.com—Woman's cyberstalker turns out to be her own boyfriend


9.23.11
CNN.com—Several UN delegations, including the US, walk out of a session in which the Iranian president made inflammatory remarks
CBS News—Physicists believe they have found subatomic particles traveling at faster than the speed of light
USA Today—Blizzard begins closed beta for Diablo III
Fox News—39 year old Chicago man kills his mother after she refused to buy him Avril Lavigne tickets
MSNBC—Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman poised to take over as head of HP
BBC News—Google denies that it rigs its search results so that its own products appear more prominently


9.26.11
BBC News—Irish man's death ruled spontaneous combustion
CNN.com—Republican student group at UC Berkeley plan to have a bake sale where the prices will be based on skin color and gender
MSNBC—Boeing finally delivers its first 787 Dreamliner, three years later than originally anticipated
Fox News—Wisconsin library starting to loan out iPads preloaded with e-books and audio books
CBS News—Hells Angels boss killed in casino shootout
USA Today—Saudi king says that women will finally gain the right to vote in his country...in 2015


9.27.11
ABCnews.com—OnStar says it will still collect data about your movements and driving habits (and share that information with third parties) even if you no longer subscribe to their service
Fox News—USPS to end its policy of only allowing dead people to appear on postage stamps
CBS News—Recently discovered wreck of British ship sunk during WWII holds more the $200 million in silver
MSNBC—Star Wars MMO to launch on December 20
USA Today—Amazon signs deal to stream Fox movies
BBC News—High resolution scans of the Dead Sea Scrolls now available online thanks to Google


9.28.11
CBS News—South Carolina governor orders state employees to be more cheerful when on the phone
USA Today—92 year old Andy Rooney ending his run on 60 Minutes this Sunday
ABCnews.com—Seven students arrested in SAT cheating ring on Long Island
BBC News—Inventor of the pacemaker dies at 92
MSNBC—Teenage murder suspects tells police that she is a vampire
Fox News—Zoo crocodile turns bright orange after attacking the water filter in his enclosure


9.29.11
Fox News—Maine sets speed limit on certain stretches of interstate to 75 mph, the highest on the east coast
CNN.com—Man charged with plot to bomb the Pentagon using remote controlled aircraft and C-4
USA Today—FTC orders Reebok to give refunds to customers for deceptive ads for toning shoes
ABCnews.com—Satire on The Onion taken seriously be Capitol Hill
CBS News—Photograph up for auction on eBay claims to offer proof that John Travolta is a time traveller
MSNBC—CEO threatens to fire employees for not replacing communal milk used for coffee


9.30.11
CNN.com—Bank of America to start charging a flat $5 monthly fee for debit card use starting next year
USA Today—Manager Terry Francona parts ways with the Red Sox
CBS News—First Lego game released for iPhone
Fox News—US particle accelerator Tevatron shut down
ABCnews.com—US military purposely kills two US citizens suspected of terrorism in Yemen in drone attack
MSNBC—Hispanics withdrawing from Alabama schools in the wake of new immigration laws

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