daily links: july 2012

7.2.12
BBC News—Flaming Lips set world record for most live shows in different cities in a 24 hour period
CNN.com—Dallas NAACP seeks to end Texas lottery
Fox News—Florida teen dies during game of Russian Roulette
ABCnews.com—California ban on foie gras goes into effect
MSNBC—Alec Baldwin marries yoga instructor half his age
USA Today—Erin Andrews leaves ESPN and joins Fox


7.3.12
USA Today—Anderson Cooper reveals publicly that he is gay
Fox News—Apple pays $60 million to settle iPad name dispute with Chinese company
ABCnews.com—GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 billion for healthcare fraud
MSNBC—Former astronaut killed in jet ski accident
CBS News—Twitter cuts off service to LinkedIn
CNN.com—Ted has third biggest opening weekend for an R-rated comedy


7.4.12
Fox News—Andy Griffith dies at 86
USA Today—Two Democratic members of the House from North Carolina will not endorse Obama's reelection bid
CBS News—Joey Chesnut wins sixth consecutive Coney Island hot dog eating contest
MSNBC—Double amputee who runs on carbon fiber legs will represent South Africa at the London Olympics
ABCnews.com—Yasser Arafat's body to be exhumed in search for evidence that he was assassinated
CNN.com—Singer Frank Ocean reveals that he was in love with a man


7.5.12
Fox News—Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have found a new heavy particle which has the characteristics expected in the Higgs Boson
CNN.com—Mac vs. PC gap closer than it has been since the mid 90s
MSNBC—San Diego fireworks display shoots off all fireworks at once due to computer glitch
ABCnews.com—Facebook adds same-sex marriage statuses to its list of options
CBS News—MGM goes to court to stop Raging Bull sequel
USA Today—Silicon Valley companies engaged in perk wars to retain employees


7.6.12
CBS News—Amazon developing its own smartphone to compete with Apple's iPhone
Fox News—Housekeeper for U2's bassist gets seven years in prison for embezzling $3.6 million from the musician
MSNBC—Apps discretely record interactions with police to document civil rights and free speech abuses
ABCnews.com—Google's latest purge of less than successful applications includes the iGoogle personalized homepage
CNN.com—Hotel replacing Gideon Bibles with electronic versions loaded onto Kindles
USA Today—Jon Bon Jovi to become new face of Avon


7.9.12
MSNBC—NSA says it won't read Americans' personal emails if new bill is enacted that would allow ISPs to share data with the government. Really. They promise.
CNN.com—Google announces major campaign to support legalizing same sex marriage
MSNBC—Apps discretely record interactions with police to document civil rights and free speech abuses
USA Today—Claims of the discovery of an arsenic-based microbe refuted
CNN.com—Hotel replacing Gideon Bibles with electronic versions loaded onto Kindles
Fox News—Windows 8 to go on sale in October


7.10.12
CNN.com—Episcopal Church approves same-sex blessing service
Fox News—Rare baseball cards found in Ohio attic likely worth millions at auction
USA Today—Main theme for upcoming Black Ops II video game written by Trent Reznor
MSNBC—Unions file lawsuit against city of Scranton, PA, and its mayor after wages for all public workers, including firefighters and police officers, were cut to minimum wage in defiance of a court order
BBC News—San Francisco will no longer buy Apple products for municipal employees after the computer maker pulls out of environmental certification scheme EPEAT
ABCnews.com—Hasbro relaunching the Furby with several technology upgrades


7.11.12
Fox News—NYC adding free wi-fi hotspots to public payphones
USA Today—New study concludes that Native Americans came to North and South America in three waves
CBS News—Hubble astronomers discover a fifth moon orbiting Pluto
CNN.com—Billionaire's son arrested after his wife is found dead
MSNBC—Peter O'Toole retires from acting
BBC News—Spike Lee working on Michael Jackson film


7.12.12
CNN.com—Target refuses to sell Frank Ocean's new album, Channel Orange
CBS News—First picture ever uploaded to the internet celebrates 20 years online
MSNBC—Drone aircraft powered by laser beam for two days straight
Fox News—Data breach at Yahoo exposes 450,000 passwords to hackers
USA Today—New species of coral named after Bob Marley
BBC News—Ralph Lauren's US Olympic uniforms made in China


7.13.12
CBS News—Patients of Colorado dentist urged to get tested for HIV and other diseases after it was discovered that he reused needles for mulitple patients
Sports Illustrated—Drew Brees signs five year, $100 million deal
Fox News—Apple re-enrolls in EPEAT environmental rating system after abandoning it earlier in the week
CNN.com—Amazon may be gearing up to offer same-day delivery in many markets
MSNBC—Lemurs named world's most endangered animals
BBC News—Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters tops global concert ticket sales for 2012 so far


7.16.12
CNN.com—Bruce Springsteen cut off mid-song during their first performance together due to curfew rules at Hyde Park
CBS News—Newly signed Knicks star Jason Kidd arrested on DUI charges
Fox News—Mural artist removes halo he had added to Joe Paterno's image in light of evidence that he was aware of Sandusky's sexual abuse of children
ABCnews.com—Limo service testing out ice cream trucks on demand
Huffington Post—Romney says he "retroactively retired" from Bain Capital in 1999 despite documents showing that he was still running the company in 2002
MSNBC—Man finds his Austin Healey on eBay 42 years after it was stolen from his home


7.17.12
ABCnews.com—JetBlue pilot suffers eye injury from green laser aimed at cockpit
USA Today—Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gay adults serving as troop leaders
MSNBC—FDA says BPA can no longer be used in baby bottles or children's sippy cups
BBC News—Yahoo names female Google executive as its new CEO
CBS News—Needles found in five sandwiches served on Delta flights from Amsterdam
Fox News—World's largest undersea lab could be shut down after losing federal funding


7.18.12
USA Today—Lay's announces Facebook contest that will award $1 million to the creator of a new flavor that will be sold in 2013
CNN.com—Man arrested after asking men to rape his wife on Craigslist
CBS News—Washington to become first state to allow citizens to register to vote on Facebook
MSNBC—The average Canadian now has a higher net worth than the average American
Fox News—Dislike of Timeline interface causes user satisfaction with Facebook to decrease
ABCnews.com—AT&T announces shared data plans


7.19.12
AppleInsider—Microsoft posts first quarterly loss since the company went public in 1986
CNN.com—Cases of whooping cough are highest in US since 1959
MSNBC—Fred Willard fired by PBS after being arrested for lewd conduct in an x-rated theater
Fox News—Sony unveils Android-powered Walkman
ABCnews.com—Office actor Ed Helms boycotts Chik-fil-A for their corporate stance against gay marriage
BBC News—Iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaks off of Greenland glacier


7.20.12
CNN.com—Gunman opens fire in crowded theater at late night Batman premiere in Colorado, killing at least 12 and wounding dozens more
Fox News—Pinkberry cofounder faces charges after allegedly beating homeless man with a tire iron
MSNBC—Indonesia shuts down porn sites in advance of Ramadan
CBS News—$3 million bonus for Lenovo CEO to be distributed among 10,000 workers
USA Today—Minecraft sales for the Xbox top 3 million
ABCnews.com—New Hampshire hospital worker indicted for causing Hepatitis C outbreak that infected 31 patients


7.23.12
CBS News—NCAA hands out severe sanctions to Penn State after Sandusky scandal, including a $60 million fine and the vacating of all wins from 1998-2011
USA Today—First female astronaut to go into space, Sally Ride, dies at 61
ABCnews.com—Bioengineered jellyfish made from rat cells
MSNBC—Scientists discover first potentially habitable alien world
Fox News—Ernie Els wins British Open
CNN.com—Mariah Carey announced as new judge for American Idol next season


7.24.12
MSNBC—Rape victim tweets names of her underage attackers after they receive lenient plea deal
CBS News—Jeffersons star Sherman Hemsley dies at 74
Fox News—Civilian contractor sets fire to nuclear sub, causing $400 million in damage, so he could leave work early
USA Today—UK hotel replaces Gideon Bibles with copies of Fifty Shades of Grey
BBC News—Canon announces first mirrorless camera
ABCnews.com—Openly gay woman has anti-gay slurs carved onto her body by three attackers


7.25.12
NBC News—Sally Ride's obituary from the foundation that bears her name reveals that she was gay
ABCnews.com—Gorillas observed dismantling poachers' traps in the wild
BBC News—Blizzard announces release date for next Warcraft expansion pack
CNN.com—Apple releases new version of Mac OS X for $20
Fox News—Cal Ripken's mother abducted at gunpoint
USA Today—The Robot Kristen Stewart admits that she cheated on her boyfriend and Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson with the married man who directed her in Snow White


7.26.12
CNN.com—Zynga shares fall nearly 40% on weaker than expected earnings
ABCnews.com—Twitter suffers major outage
USA Today—Greenland's ice sheet suffers surprising melt in July
BBC News—Paul Watson, leader of Sea Shepherd activist group, jumps bail in Germany and flees the country
Fox News—US military testing body armor designed for female soldiers
MSNBC—Pebble smartwatch will miss its original September shipping date


7.27.12
CNN.com—Amazon's Jeff Bezos plegdges $2.5 million to protect same-sex marriage
CBS News—Apple buys fingerprint security firm for $365 million
ABCnews.com—Two HIV positive patients are now free of the virus after bone marrow transplants
USA Today—GameStop may start reselling used digital versions of games
Fox News—Google offering very fast internet for $70 per month in Kansas City
BBC News—Valve founder, who worked at Microsoft for 13 years, predicts that Windows 8 will be a catastrophe


7.30.12
USA Today—Apple sells 3 million copies of the latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, in the first four days of release
NBC News—Black couple says predominantly white Baptist church that they have regularly attended refused to marry them because of their race
CBS News—New Yorker writer admits that he made up quotes from Bob Dylan
Fox News—NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to limit access to baby formula to encourage more new mothers to breastfeed
BBC News—Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed more than a dozen so far
CNN.com—Facebook stock sinks to new low; Mark Zuckerberg's personal net worth falls by over $7 billion


7.31.12
CNN.com—Michael Phelps sets Olympic record by winning his 19th medal
CBS News—Brazillian medal winner to get new medal after dropping his in the shower and breaking it
USA Today—Microsoft replacing Hotmail with Outlook.com
Fox News—China planning to land probe on the moon next year in preparation for a manned mission in 2020
NBC News—Apple claims it has documents proving that Samsung intentionally copied the iPhone
ABCnews.com—New photos show that flags from the Apollo missions are still present on the surface of the moon

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