daily links: november 2013

11.1.13
CBS News—Shooter at LAX kills TSA agent and wounds others
NBC News—FAA to allow use of electronic gadgets during takeoff and landing
Fox News—Kraft to remove artificial dyes from macaroni and cheese products aimed at children
CNN.com—Oracle shareholders say no to Larry Ellison's proposed pay package for second year in a row
ABCnews.com—Purchasers of new laptop from Dell complain that it smells like cat urine
USA Today—Subway introduces two sandwiches featuring sriracha


11.4.13
CNN.com—Athens eatery made famous by R.E.M. closing
Fox News—NFL player suspended after sending threatening texts that used racial epithets to teammate
ABCnews.com—Trucker charged with 20 felonies in fatal crash was looking at scantily-clad women on Facebook on his phone when he hit several parked emergency vehicles
BBC News—Lockheed to build unmanned spy plane for the US government that can fly at six times the speed of sound
CBS News—BlackBerry backs away from sale and fires CEO after new billion dollar investment
USA Today—Thieves target school-issued iPads


11.4.13
ABCnews.com—India launches Mars rover mission
CBS News—86 year old woman dies the day after completing the New York City Marathon
CNN.com—Astronomers estimate that there are tens of billions of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone
BBC News—Open casting calls to be held for two roles in next Star Wars movie
USA Today—Burger King reintroducing Big Mac competitor Big King
Fox News—Mysterious barges are to be showrooms for Google hardware


11.6.13
ABCnews.com—Blockbuster closing all its US stores and shutting down its DVD mail order rental service
CNN.com—Houston voters reject bond initiative that would have saved the Astrodome by turning it into a convention center
BBC News—Online black market drug site Silk Road back online
USA Today—Motorist sues after being pulled over for failing to stop at a stop sign and ending up having multiple anal searches performed on him, none of which discovered any drugs
Fox News—Man admits that he killed his son for a $700,000 insurance payoff
CBS News—Lady Gaga set to perform in space in 2015


11.7.13
BBC News—Olympic torch reaches space station
USA Today—Star Wars Episode VII to open Christmas 2015
CNN.com—FDA preparing to take on trans fats
Fox News—Kansas boy suspended for refusing to take off purse at school even though girls at the school are allowed to wear them
NBC News—Facebook removes iconic thumbs up from its Like button
CBS News—Doctors discover new ligament in knee


11.8.13
BBC News—Marvel partnering with Netflix to release four new live action series
Fox News—Texas company makes world's first 3D printed metal gun
NBC News—The Onion to end its print edition
USA Today—Ford CEO the frontrunner to become the new head of Microsoft
CNN.com—Google faces backlash from YouTube users for forcing them to link their accounts to a Google+ account
ABCnews.com—Twitter IPO closes up 73% over original offer price


11.11.13
Fox News—Atlanta Braves say they are leaving Turner Field in downtown Atlanta for a new facility in the suburbs in 2017
USA Today—Amazon makes deal with USPS to make Sunday deliveries in some markets
ABCnews.com—Growing list of major retailers to buck tradition and open on Thanksgiving Day
CNN.com—Harvard's budget deficit from last year quadrupled from the previous year to $34 million
BBC News—Blizzard announces fifth expansion for World of Warcraft MMO
CBS News—Disney adapting The Princess Bride for the stage


11.12.13
USA Today—Houston Texans cut future hall of fame safety Ed Reed
Fox News—Russia says that journalists covering the upcoming Olympics will not be allowed to use smartphones or tablets to take videos or pictures, or to tweet news about the events
NBC News—Occupy Wall Street group buys $15 million of Americans' medical debt and forgives it
ABCnews.com—British scientist says he has developed alcohol substitute that gives you a buzz without the hangover if you take an antidote
CBS News—Hawaii set to approve same sex marriage
CNN.com—1 World Trade Center will be America's new tallest building


11.13.13
CBS News—Case of white woman who says she was denied admission to University of Texas because of her race is headed back to court
ABCnews.com—Rare 60 carat pink diamond sells for world record $83 million
USA Today—Snapchat turns down $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook
Fox News—Sun close to reversing its polarity
CNN.com—Microsoft doing away with controversial employee review system that required managers to rate a certain percentage of their employees as underperforming no matter what
NBC News—Francis Bacon painting sets new record for art auctions after it sells for $142 million


11.14.13
ABCnews.com—24 year old woman says that she is Andy Kaufman's daughter and says that he is still alive
Fox News—Whitey Bulger sentenced to two life terms and order to pay $19 million in restitution to victims
CBS News—Researchers determine that clam discovered in 2006 had lived to be 507 years old, the oldest animal ever known to exist
CNN.com—Yahoo auctioning off backlog of domain names that it owns but it isn't using
USA Today—Michael Phelps taking steps that could lead to Olympic appearance in 2016
NBC News—McDonald's planning to spend $3 billion over the next year to open 1500 new restaurants and remodel 1000 more


11.15.13
Fox News—Sweden orders hotel made entirely of ice to install fire alarms
USA Today—EPA considering reducing biofuel mandate
CNN.com—More than $2,000 in donations pour in for waitress who was stiffed on $100 tab by family who disapproved of her gay lifestyle
NBC News—Terrence Howard says Robert Downey pushed him out of Iron Man 2
CBS News—Dallas wide receiver Dez Bryant buys PS4 consoles for people waiting in line for them at Walmart
BBC News—Google defeats legal challenge from authors and will be allowed to continue scanning and uploading digital copies of books


11.18.13
NBC News—Dow breaks 16,000 for first time ever
USA Today—Sony sells more than 1 million PS4s in the first 24 hours of release
Fox News—Judge will allow soldier accused of sexual assaults to point the finger at his twin brother
CBS News—Two people charged with stealing 2000 Christmas trees in Minnesota
ABCnews.com—Embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford to get his own tv show
CNN.com—Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to become president of private equity firm


11.19.13
CNN.com—Larry Flynt trying to stop the execution of the man who shot him, leaving him paralyzed
ABCnews.com—Ohio Walmart holds Thanksgiving food drive for its workers. I usually trust that these synopses speak for themselves, but I want to make sure you understand that this is a very bad thing.
CBS News—Yahoo says it will start encrypting all users' personal data
Fox News—Emerson College will rename its collge of communication after fictional anchorman Ron Burgundy for one day only
USA Today—2013 word of the year is "selfie"
NBC News—Subway sandwich shop in Pennsylvania to start accepting Bitcoins as payment


11.20.13
NBC News—Sequel to It's A Wonderful Life set to be released in 2015
Fox News—NYC to ban tobacco sales to anyone under 21
USA Today—Arcade Fire asks fans attending their upcoming arena shows to wear "formal attire or costumes"
BBC News—Villain Blofeld could return to James Bond films after legal settlement
CNN.com—The husband of Katherine Harris (the elections supervisor/GOP harpy who handed Florida to Bush in 2000 and was rewarded with a congressional seat), commits suicide. Insert terribly inappropriate joke here.
CBS News—Spider-Man musical leaving Broadway and heading for Las Vegas


11.21.13
CNN.com—Senate votes to end filibusters of judicial and executive nominees, which can now be decided by a straight majority vote
USA Today—Psychology professor will face trial for the murder of the man who she claims raped her 20 years ago
BBC News—Judge rules that Samsung must pay Apple nearly $300 million for copying the iPhone and iPad
ABCnews.com—California town outlaws smoking in apartments or condos that share walls with other units
Fox News—Man hit with $40,000 fine (reduced from over $200,000) for repeatedly skipping tolls on toll road in Virginia for over four years
NBC News—Google to offer prepaid debit card


11.22.13
ABCnews.com—New Hampshire hospital suing worker it says was responsible for an outbreak of hepatitis C at the facility last year
CNN.com—Proposed Swiss law would limit CEO pay to no more than twelve times what the lowest paid worker makes. This actually seems pretty reasonable to me, although maybe it should be based on the median salary at the company (but not the average).
Fox News—Iowa State Patrol testing GPS cannon that would allow them to shoot a tracking device onto a car and avoid dangerous high speed pursuits
ABCnews.com—California town outlaws smoking in apartments or condos that share walls with other units
USA Today—Microsoft sells over 1 million Xbox One consoles in the first 24 hours of availability
BBC News—New Jersey legalizes online gambling


11.25.13
ABCnews.com—Researchers developing a digital lollipop that uses electrical currents to stimulate taste buds
NBC News—Katie Couric joining Yahoo but will keep her ABC talk show
CNN.com—Apple buys the motion sensing company that was behind the Microsoft's Kinect system
CBS News—Texas police officer accused of raping a teenager who was handcuffed in the back of his car
Fox News—Man uses new live-streaming feature of PS4 to broadcast video of his passed out wife after he stripped her naked
USA Today—FDA orders 23andMe to halt sales of its personal DNA test


11.26.13
NBC News—New screening technology could reduce the hassle involved with liquids and gels in carry-on luggage
ABCnews.com—Toy company is suing for the right to use a parody of a Beastie Boys song in its ads
BBC News—Microsoft trying to ban cursing on Xbox One
USA Today—Florida special election may be predictor of how Obamacare rollout will affect 2014 races
CNN.com—New app offers GPS navigation using celebrity voices
CBS News—Microsoft offers owners of new Xbox One console with defective disc drives a new console and a free game download

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