daily links: february 2008

2.1.08
MSNBC—Texas lawmaker wants to require state-issued IDs for prepaid cell phone purchases
Fox News—Navy tests electromagnetic railgun
CBS News—Romney spent $35 million of his own money on his campaign in 2007
ABCnews.com—Chinese brain researchers put camera inside of mouse's head
CNN.com—Schwarzenegger endorses McCain
USA Today—Amazon buying Audible.com for $300 million


2.4.08
CNN.com—FBI to spend $1 billion over ten years to create a database of biometric information, including palm prints and eye scans
Fox News—New England Patriots' perfect season spoiled by last-minute touchdown
MSNBC—United will start charging extra for a second piece of checked luggage
ABCnews.com—NASA to beam Beatles song into space
CBS News—Judge rules that Vick can keep is $20 million signing bonus
USA Today—Yahoo selling its music service to Rhapsody


2.5.08
ABCnews.com—Judge rules that Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws meant to protect marine mammals from sonar
MSNBC—Iran launches rocket from new space center
BBC News—Intel unveils chip with record-setting 2 billion transistors
USA Today—Bobby Knight resigns as coach at Texas Tech and hands the team over to his son
CBS News—Chicago's Sun-Times newspaper up for sale
Fox News—Man says he killed his wife during exorcism when devil entered his body


2.6.08
CBS News—Bush says he will veto surveillance bill because it does not protect telecom operators who helped the US spy on its own citizens without warrants
BBC News—Starting in May, eBay will no longer allow sellers to leave negative feedback about buyers
ABCnews.com—Clemens deposed by congressional lawyers for five hours
USA Today—Apple releases new iPhone and iPod touch models with more memory
MSNBC—Bookmakers lose record $2.6 million on Super Bowl XLII
Fox News—Scientists create embryo using DNA from three parents


2.11.08
USA Today—WGA leadership recommends new deal for members; strike could end soon
CNN.com—Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75
Fox News—Britain makes its Olympic athletes sign contracts prohibiting political statements at the Beijing summer games
MSNBC—Nobel Peace Prize winner wounded in attack by gunmen
ABCnews.com—Yahoo to reject Microsoft's takeover bid
CBS News—Nevada's supreme court rules that the electric chair is cruel and unusual punishment, effectively outlawing the death penalty in the state


2.12.08
CBS News—Some hospitals using Wiis for physical therapy
New Scientist—Organic molecules discovered on alien world
CNN.com—Those bastards at the post office are raising the price of stamps again
ABCnews.com—Netflix chooses the increasingly dominant Blu-Ray format for its HD rentals
USA Today—AT&T to roll out free wireless at most Starbucks
Fox News—Thieves steal four paintings worth $160 million from Zurich museum


2.13.08
USA Today—Senate okays warrantless wiretaps and immunity to telecom companies who may have violated the law while doing the Bush administration's bidding
New Scientist—Britain may follow France's lead by cutting off internet access to repeat offenders who download music and movies illegally
ABCnews.com—A computer animated Star Wars film is slated for cable this summer, which will kick off a weekly half hour animated series
Fox News—Bitter ex-girlfriend sends man 10,000 text messages in two months
MSNBC—Judge approves private probe in White House email case
CBS News—Government explains meaning of symbols on the Great Seal


2.14.08
CNN.com—Bush signs stimulus package meant to boost the economy
ABCnews.com—Clemens testifies before Congress and denies all allegations that he used performance enhancers
MSNBC—News Corp considering partnership with Yahoo
CBS News—System upgrade behind Blackberry outage
BBC News—The long awaited Spore game from Sims creator Will Wright will go on sale in September
Fox News—Day care teacher caught on tape raping four year old girl


2.15.08
BBC News—Rare violin sells for record $3.5 million
MSNBC—Transplant surgeons accused of organ trafficking
CNN.com—Romney endorses McCain
USA Today—US to shoot down broken spy satellite
ABCnews.com—Woman sues Best Buy for $54 million for losing laptop brought in for repair
CBS News—Saudi woman to be put to death for witchcraft


2.18.08
USA Today—USDA issues recall for 143 million pounds of beef, its largest recall ever
MSNBC—McCain reissues Bush the Elder's later-broken promise of No New Taxes if he is elected president
CNN.com—Kosovo declares independence from Serbia
ABCnews.com—Abu Dhabi man pays $14.3 million for license plate bearing a single digit: 1
CBS News—Wal-Mart issues death knell for ailing HD-DVD format by declaring that it will only stock Blu-Ray discs
BBC News—US engineer says that machines will reach human-level AI by 2029


2.19.08
BBC News—Anonymous whistleblower site taken offline in US
CNN.com—Fossil reveals prehistoric frog the size of a bowling ball
MSNBC—Campbell's lowering the amount of sodium in kids' soups
ABCnews.com—Musicians suing Universal for millions in back royalties
CBS News—Canada to allow extradition of Nazi war criminal to Italy
Fox News—Earth-like planets may be more common in our galaxy than previously thought


2.20.08
CNN.com—Castro resigns as president of Cuba
MSNBC—Microsoft may partner with Netflix to offer movies over Xbox Live service
CBS News—Patients who go into cardiac arrest after 11 p.m. or on the weekends are more likely to die
USA Today—Martha Stewart pays $50 million for Emeril brands
Fox News—Tours in Iraq likely to shorten from 15 months to 12 months starting this summer
BBC News—Stolen paintings found in abandoned car in Zurich


2.21.08
USA Today—Duke lacrosse players who accused and later cleared of rape charges sue the university and the city of Durham
CNN.com—Stanford joins increasingly long list of upper tier schools to give significant tuition breaks to middle class students
ABCnews.com—Navy shoots down broken satellite
CBS News—Google piloting healthcare service that would store patient records online
MSNBC—Microsoft to share some trade secrets to make it easier for software developers to integrate with their products
Fox News—Man tries to sneak box cutter past airport security by hiding it in hollowed out book


2.22.08
CNN.com—Spanish company to turn 3 square miles of desert in Arizona into one of world's largest solar power plants
Fox News—Yahoo sued by shareholders for turning down Microsoft's buyout offer
ABCnews.com—Bill Gates says touch screens and voice recognition software will replace keyboards
CBS News—New genetic study supports theory that all humans have origin in Africa
MSNBC—Spy satellites help uncover lost Mayan archeological sites
USA Today—Genetics may play role in voting choices


2.25.08
USA Today—Visa IPO could raise $19 billion
CNN.com—Pakistan blocks YouTube
Fox News—School suspends two teens for wearing crucifixes
MSNBC—Electron filmed in motion
ABCnews.com—Woman awarded $9 million after insurer dropped her coverage while she was in the midst of treatment for breast cancer
CBS News—Scientists say high-protein insects could help fight world hunger

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