daily links: february 2009

2.2.09
USA Today—Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow
CBS News—Iraq holds relatively peaceful elections
ABCnews.com—Senator wants to cap CEO compensation for companies receiving bailout money at $400,000
BBC News—Famous British warship that sank 264 years ago located by treasure hunters in the English Channel
New Scientist—New search of Hubble's archive turns up an image of a planet outside our solar system
USA Today—DMX sentenced to 90 days in prison on multiple felony charges


2.3.09
USA Today—Michael Phelps photographed taking a bong hit
BBC News—South Korean firm say they have cloned dogs using stem cells
MSNBC—Upgrade to Google Earth gives users access to large areas of the oceans
CNN.com—Man auctioning phone number from 80s hit song on eBay
CBS News—Under Armour enters the running shoe market
New Scientist—New study finds that random checks are just as efficient as profiling for identifying terrorists


2.4.09
MSNBC—House votes to delay digital transition until June
Fox News—Traffic accident victim dies after being turned away by 14 hospitals
CBS News—Cofounder of Habitat for Humanity dies
CNN.com—Google Latitude will let you keep track of friends' locations on your mobile phone
ABCnews.com—Panasonic cuts 15,000 jobs
USA Today—2 million people turn out for Denny's free breakfast offer on Tuesday


2.5.09
ABCnews.com—Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg being treated for pancreatic cancer
CNN.com—Ticketmaster and Live Nation consider merger
New Scientist—Some scientists believe Mars should be treated like a wildlife preserve
MSNBC—Woman sentenced to 12 years in prison for soliciting a hitman on Craigslist
Fox News—College gossip site JuicyCampus shuts down
CBS News—90,000 sex offenders removed from MySpace


2.6.09
Fox News—Amazon to make it's Kindle e-book format compatible with a range of mobile phones
USA Today—Val Kilmer considers running for governor of New Mexico
ABCnews.com—Some stations will cease analog transmissions in two weeks despite recent Congressional decree delaying the tranistion to digital
BBC News—Computer chips may one day be used to repair damaged nerves
New Scientist—Large doses of green tea can prevent a certain type of cancer drug from working properly
MSNBC—New comet will be easily visible in the next few weeks


2.9.09
ABCnews.com—Judge orders California to release tens of thousands of inmates early to relieve prison overcrowding
Sports Illustrated—Alex Rodriguez admits to steroid use
MSNBC—Restart of Large Hadron Collider delayed again
New Scientist—California company will sequence your genome for $5000
BBC News—WTF? Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to compete on Dancing with the Stars
USA Today—Amazon reveals Kindle 2


2.10.09
ABCnews.com—GM announces 10,000 more job cuts
CNN.com—Microsoft prepares to challenge Apple's iPhone and iTunes app store. That worked out real well when they tried to take on the iPod with the Zune.
USA Today—Intel will spend $2 billion to upgrade its US factories over the next two years
MSNBC—School sued by students after it refused to allow them to form a club promoting tolerance of gays
BBC News—Nine year old codes application for Apple's iPhone
New Scientist—NASA working on ways to control sonic boom for supersonic flight


2.11.09
Fox News—Many municipalities increasing fines for parking violations and speeding tickets as a way to make up revenue shortfalls
USA Today—Stamp prices going up again in May
MSNBC—United to close call center for passenger complaints and tell its customers to write or email them instead
ABCnews.com—Obama administration overturns Bush plan to open American waters to new offshore oil drilling
CNN.com—Tejada expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress. Too bad we don't hold Bush administration officials to the same standards that we do baseball players.
BBC News—Woman learns of her divorce from a posting on her husband's Facebook page


2.12.09
CNN.com—Former girlfriend of Roberto Alomar alleges that he has AIDS
ABCnews.com—Microsoft once again copying Apple with plans to open its own retails stores
USA Today—Authors guild upset about text-to-speech feature on new Kindles
Fox News—Starbucks to start selling instant coffee
BBC News—DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals never interbred with modern humans
CBS News—Microsoft aiming for a 2009 release for Windows 7


2.13.09
Fox News—Debris from crash of two satellites could threaten dozens more satellites in the same orbit
CNN.com—Microsoft offering $250,000 rewards for information that leads to the arrest of the creator of a virus
ABCnews.com—Six students sue university, saying they were assaulted or propositioned by a senior official and that the school tried to cover it up
USA Today—Use of spyware and private investigators surges around Valentine's Day in an attempt to catch cheating mates
CBS News—Two judges plead guilty to scheme where they would receive kickbacks for sending teens to private detention centers
BBC News—New project wants to make sure the obsolete file formats remain readable


2.16.09
ABCnews.com—Obama may be close to lifting stem cell restrictions instituted by the Bush administration
New Scientists—Dark streaks on the surface of Mars may be indications of liquid water
Fox News—Kissing banned at English railway station
USA Today—Police shoot pet chimp after it attacks woman
CNN.com—French and British nuclear submarines collide
MSNBC—Trump's casino group reportedly to file for bankruptcy


2.17.09
CBS News—Pakistan agrees to enforce Islamic law in an attempt to pacify the Taliban
CNN.com—Founder and owner of Muslim television station in New York confesses to beheading wife after she filed for divorce
USA Today—Casinos put on alert about card counting app for the iPhone
Fox News—Baltimore Examiner shuts down
New Scientist—Gene therapy trials for treatment if HIV show promise
MSNBC—Chinese blogger stabbed after public reading at bookstore


2.18.09
CBS News—Records show that Postmaster General made more than twice what the president did in 2008
ABCnews.com—Cell phone makers to settle on universal charger by 2012
CNN.com—PR firm drops octuplet mom as client after receiving death threats
BBC News—Second phone built around Google's Android OS unveiled
USA Today—Liberty Media to invest $350 million in struggling Sirius XM
Fox News—Two teen girls, one dead and one unconscious, found in Army barracks in Washington


2.19.09
CNN.com—Woman who was blinded with acid by stalker wants her attacker to suffer the same way as his punishment
ABCnews.com—Cloud seeding techniques produce rare snowfall in Beijing
MSNBC—New service unblocks people who have chosen to hide their name and number on caller ID
BBC News—NASA and its European counterpart plan to send probes to Jupiter
USA Today—Facebook backs away from Terms of Service changes which would have given them ownership over all content on the site
Fox News—Executed Virginia inmate had to be forcibly carried to the death chamber


2.20.09
USA Today—Federal appeals court strikes down California law that would ban sale of violent video games to minors
CNN.com—Clinton White House cat Socks dies
Fox News—George Mason University chooses male drag queen as its homecoming queen
BBC News—Doctors believe they can cure peanut allergies by slowing building immunity
ABCnews.com—Descendants of Geronimo sue Skull and Bones, claiming that members of the secret society stole his remains decades ago
MSNBC—Skype to be built into some Nokia phones


2.23.09
ABCnews.com—Federal judge orders man who distributed child pornography to pay $200,000 in restitution to the victim
CNN.com—New bill would require ISPs and anyone who operates a public WiFi hotspot to keep user records for two years to aid in police investigations
MSNBC—Simon Cowell wants to be cryogenically frozen when he dies
USA Today—American Express is offering some account holders $300 to pay off their balances and close their accounts
CBS News—Man thinks he has found Atlantis using the latest version of   Google Earth
Fox News—Photos from Mars lander show further evidence of water on the planet


2.24.09
Fox News—New Spider-Man Broadway musical will be scored by members of U2. Seriously.
CNN.com—Apple releases public beta of Safari 4
CBS News—San Francisco Chronicle may be forced to shut down
MSNBC—DC quarter features Duke Ellington
New Scientist—Alpine-like mountain range hidden beneath ice of Antarctica
BBC News—Quake 3 being re-released as a browser-based game


2.25.09
BBC News—Researchers claim texting improves language skill among 10-12 year olds
New Scientist—Gibbons do not recognise their own reflections, unlike many other large primates
MSNBC—Netflix to offer streaming-only plan in the near future
Fox News—Some schools cutting back on lunches for children whose parents don't pay for lunches even though they are financially able to
CNN.com—Number of hours spent viewing tv content is at an all time high if you count mobile devices and DVRs
CBS News—NFL cuts league administrative staff by 15% and commissioner takes a pay cut


2.26.09
Fox News—Fungus threatens ancient cave paintings in France
BBC News—Oldest words in English language identified
MSNBC—Octopus pulls a valve in its tank and floods an aquarium
CBS News—New discovery could lead to vaccine that innoculates you against all flu strains for the rest of your life
CNN.com—NASA satellite meant to study global warming destroyed minutes after launch
USA Today—Colorado Springs may charge stranded hikers $500 for a ride down from Pike's Peak


2.27.09
ABCnew.com—Newly discovered human footprint is estimated to be 1.5 million years old
New Scientist—Study finds that 8 of the top 10 porn buying states in the US voted Republican in the last election
MSNBC—Passenger who was late for flight claimed to be air marshal in order to get on board
CNN.com—After outcry over recent policy change (which was soon after retracted), Facebook asks its users to help it create new policies
Fox News—Amazon now says it will allow copyright holders to decide whether their works can be read using the text-to-speech feature on the latest version of the Kindle
BBC News—Remote doomsday seed vault begins operation

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