daily links: march 2012

3.1.12
CNN.com—Maryland governor signs same sex marriage bill into law
CBS News—Japanese researchers invent device that can prevent you from speaking
BBC News—Monkee Davy Jones dies at 66
Fox News—US Navy successfully fires prototype rail gun
USA Today—Embattled Arizona sheriff tries to reignite Obama birth certificate controversy
MSNBC—Abrasive conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart dies at 43


3.2.12
ABCnews.com—Man uses illegal cell phone jammer to quiet the chatter on a public bus in Philadelphia
CNN.com—Chevy shutting down production on the Volt for five weeks to sell down existing inventory
BBC News—Zynga launching its own gaming network so that it doesn't have to be so dependent on Facebook
MSNBC—Angry Birds theme park to open in Finland next month
CBS News—Court rules that police can search your cell phone without a warrant
USA Today—Building superintendent charged with bestiality with a tenant's labrador retriever


3.5.12
USA Today—US Attorney General says that the Constitution does not apply to terrorists, even those suspects who are US citizens
Fox News—Several sponsors pull their ads from Rush Limbaugh's show after he calls a Georgetown law student a slut on the air
CNN.com—Former Mets star Lenny Dykstra sentenced to three years in jail for grand theft auto
ABCnews.com—Romney's wife says in interview that she doesn't consider herself to be wealthy
CBS News—Heart of Dublin's patron saint stolen from church
BBC News—Lady Gaga is the first to have more than 20 million Twitter followers


3.6.12
MSNBC—Colleges and employers are increasingly asking for access to private Facebook posts
USA Today—Colts to release their franchise quarterback Peyton Manning
Fox News—Fired teacher returns to campus with gun and kills headmistress before killing himself
ABCnews.com—Husband kills wife with homemade cannon
CNN.com—Fox cancels Spielberg's sci-fi epic Terra Nova after one season
CBS News—Oreos celebrate 100th anniversary


3.7.12
MSNBC—49 year old Jamie Moyer still wants to play in the big leagues
ABCnews.com—Massachusetts father charged with shining a laser pointer into the eyes of the opposing goalie during his daughter's playoff hockey game
CNN.com—Apple announces new HD version of the iPad with a 4G option
USA Today—Electronic Arts to release new version of SimCity in 2013
CBS News—Joe the Plumber wins Republican Congressional primary in Ohio
BBC News—Google Play to take on Apple's iTunes store and App Store


3.8.12
CNN.com—Winner of $1 million lottery still collecting $200 a month in state assistance, says she deserves it because she has no income
USA Today—Waiter who posted Peyton Manning's receipt online fired
MSNBC—Google awards $60,000 to man who was able to hack Chrome
CBS News—Fiona Apple's next album to have a 23 word title
Fox News—Creator of Spanx now a billionaire
BBC News—Coke and Pepsi change their recipes to avoid a warning label in California


3.9.12
MSNBC—Rising sea levels force entire island nation of 100,000 people to consider a mass migration to Fiji
ABCnews.com—Ship that was the original Love Boat on the television series being sold for scrap
CNN.com—Facebook founder buys The New Republic and will become its editor-in-chief
USA Today—Mass Effect 3 sells nearly 900,000 copies on its first day of release
BBC News—French comics artist Moebius dies at 73
Fox News—86 year old Dick van Dyke marries his 40 year old makeup artist


3.12.12
USA Today—MLA releases formal guidelines for how to use a tweet as a source in academic writing
CNN.com—Yahoo sues Facebook for patent infringement
Fox News—University of Maryland student arrested after threatening to kill enough people to make the national news
MSNBC—Study finds that even a single sugar sweetened drink a day raises the risk of heart disease in men
ABCnews.com—Twitter buys microblogging service and Tumblr rival Posterous
BBC News—A lost work by Leonardo may be hidden behind another fresco in Italy


3.13.12
Fox News—California bill would create ban list for violent sports fans and prevent them from attending any pro sporting events for five years
CNN.com—Yahoo sues Facebook for patent infringement
Huffington Post—Encyclopaedia Britannica to end print edition after 244 years
CNN.com—There will be a Muppets sequel, but Jason Segel won't be involved
USA Today—4 of the 19 major banks fail annual stress test
MSNBC—Dick Cheney afraid to travel to Canada


3.19.12
ABCnews.com—NPR retracts story about working conditions in the factories of Apple's Chinese manufacturing partners
CBS News—Diablo III to be released on May 15
USA Today—Starbucks preparing to branch out into the juice market with new retail store concept
Time.com—PayPal releases smartphone plugin for mobile payment to compete with Square
Fox News—Florida atheists unbless a highway with unholy water after a religious group blessed it with oil
MSNBC—Tribe on whose land the Grand Canyon Skywalk is built seizes the attraction from the developer, ignoring their legal contract


3.20.12
USA Today—Peyton Manning signs five year deal with Denver Broncos
CNN.com—Amazon buys company that manufacturers robots that fulfill orders in warehouses
MSNBC—Windows 8 could be released as early as October
ABCnews.com—Ashton Kutcher signs up for seat on Virgin Galactic flight
Fox News—SUNY Stony Brook will no longer cancel classes on Jewish and Christian holidays
BBC News—Mass Effect fans lobby for new ending to the final game of the trilogy


3.21.12
CBS News—New Orleans Saints head coach suspended from NFL for one year in aftermath of bounty scandal
BBC News—John Carter estimated to lose $200 million for Disney
Fox News—Boy convinces porn star to accompany him to his senior prom, but school nixes her attendance
CNN.com—High school counselor arrested after taping students engaged in sexual activity
USA Today—Tim Tebow traded to Jets after Broncos acquire Peyton Manning
MSNBC—Wisconsin town affected by strange booming sounds at night


3.22.12
Fox News—US soldier accused of shooting unarmed civilians to be charged with 17 counts of murder
CNN.com—Americans now watch more movies streaming online than they do on DVD
BBC News—Google wins patent for ads that will change based on weather conditions
CBS News—Angry Birds Space is top seller in app store on first day of release
USA Today—Illinois will become first state to allow online lottery sales
MSNBC—India may have lost $210 billion by selling coalfields to private companies without a competitive bidding process


3.23.12
CNN.com—Sex worker held captive by prostitution ring tattooed with a barcode by her "owners"
Fox News—Locator chips sewn into school uniforms keep kids at Brazillian schools from cutting class
USA Today—A psychologist told authorities that Sandusky was a likely pedophile during a 1998 investigation
CBS News—Survivor star Rupert Boneham is running for governor of Indiana
MSNBC—Dick Cheney receives heart transplant
BBC News—Facebook purchases 750 patents from IBM


3.26.12
BBC News—Hunger Games sets US box office record for biggest opening weekend of a non-sequel
CBS News—James Cameron sets record for deepest dive by going seven miles into the Mariana Trench
CNN.com—Tiger Woods wins his first PGA tournament since 2009
Fox News—Texas Rangers to sell a one pound hot dog for $26 at their concession stands this season
MSNBC—Strange cloud spotted on Mars
USA Today—Lionel Ritchie releases album with country versions of his greatest hits


3.27.12
CNN.com—SAT and ACT institute new security measures to prevent cheating
Fox News—World's largest paper airplane takes flight over Arizona desert
MSNBC—Man cuts off and incinerates his own foot so he could continue receiving unemployment benefits
CBS News—Harry Potter books finally available for e-readers
USA Today—JetBlue pilot subdued by passengers after erratic behavior
ABCnews.com—Lorax statue stolen from home of Dr. Seuss's widow


3.28.12
CNN.com—New array of radio telescopes will be world's largest and coordinate data from 3,000 separate dishes
USA Today—Woman charged with perjury after bragging on a radio talk show that she had faked mental illness to get out of jury duty
BBC News—Jeff Bezos-funded project locates the engines used to launch the Apollo 11 moon mission
Fox News—Century old light bulbs removed from a time capsule still work
MSNBC—16 year old girl who posted a photo of herself on Facebook in a bikini and holding a cigarette and liquor bottle is banned from her high school graduation
CBS News—Woman kills herself while chatting with friends on Facebook


3.29.12
ESPN.com—Three of UNC's stars to enter NBA draft
ABCnews.com—Record Megamillions jackpot worth over half a billion dollars
CNN.com—Half of all US households own at least one Apple product
USA Today—Google's self-driving car takes blind man to Taco Bell
Fox News—Katie Couric to guest host Good Morning America, the main rival to her old show, NBC's Today
BBC News—Will Ferrell confirms Anchorman sequel


3.30.12
MSNBC—Canada getting rid of the penny
Fox News—Woman faces contempt charge for baptizing her children without her ex-husband's consent
USA Today—Major credit card payment processor suffers data breach
BBC News—PlayStation 4 may be named Orbis and be released in 2013
CNN.com—Keith Olbermann fired from Current TV
ABCnews.com—New solar panels absorb 99.7% of all visible light that hits them

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