daily links: november 2010

11.1.10
CBS News—Independent firm estimates that over 200,000 people attended the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally in DC, well over twice the number estimated for Glenn Beck's rally earlier this year
CNN.com—Brazil elects first female president
Fox News—NASA may be developing one-way starship for colonization purposes
ABCnews.com—Employees at Ohio McDonald's franchises receive handbills in their paychecks advising them to vote Republican
USA Today—YouTube co-founder stepping down as CEO
MSNBC—China claims it has built the world's fastest supercomputer


11.2.10
MSNBC—Teen shot dead by Mercedes driver after throwing eggs as a Halloween prank
Fox News—Study concludes that alcohol is worse for you than crack or heroin
CNN.com—New search engine Blekko launches after three years in development
CBS News—Google sues the US
ABCnews.com—Tom DeLay accused of illegally channeling corporate funds into Texas legislative races
USA Today—Charter airline giving out free electronic cigarettes to passengers who are smokers


11.3.10
CNN.com—San Francisco wins World Series
CBS News—Kanye West to march in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
MSNBC—Hotel replaces room keys with mobile phones
ABCnews.com—Supreme Court hearing arguments on ban on sale of violent video games to minors
USA Today—New type of energy saving lightbulb technology, Electron Stimulated Luminescence, prepares to hit the market
BBC News—BP returns to profitability


11.4.10
CNN.com—Federal reserve announces $600 billion in new stimulus funds
CBS News—MGM movie studio files for bankruptcy
Fox News—Facebook unveils new mobile platform, but no Facebook phone
ABCnews.com—British man dies from caffeine overdose
USA Today—AirTran patrons want Southwest to keep business class and assigned seats when it takes over the airline
BBC News—Large Hadron Collider to create mini-Big Bang


11.5.10
USA Today—Baseball Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson dies
Fox News—Two US companies partner to create first car made entirely by a 3D printer
CBS News—West Memphis 3 to get new hearings regarding their murder convictions
MSNBC—Couple who won $11 million in the lottery give it all away to charity. They're from Canada, of course.
CNN.com—Active duty Navy SEAL arrested for trafficking in firearms
ABCnews.com—Voters reject ballot measure in California that would have legalized marijuana


11.8.10
CNN.com—Obama backs India in its bid for permanent seat on the UN security council
Fox News—Netscape founder part of group behind RockMelt, a new entrant in the web browser market
ABCnews.com—October 2010 sets records for political advertising
CBS News—Michael Bloomberg's daughter fractures spine in professional riding accident
USA Today—Calvin Klein and Oakley will both sell 3D glasses
BBC News—Nokia takes back control over the Symbian operating system after attempting to make it open source 18 months ago


11.9.10
BBC News—Facebook and Google battle over data sharing
MSNBC—Sexual activity and drug use more common in teens who text frequently
CNN.com—Boeing's 787 Dreamliner makes emergency landing during test flight
USA Today—Conan O'Brien's new show on TBS has strong debut
Fox News—Paint huffer arrested for throwing oranges at planes
ABCnews.com—Olbermann back on the air after being suspended for two shows for donating to political campaigns


11.10.10
USA Today—FDA proposes adding graphic warning labels to cigarettes
ABCnews.com—Google gives an across the board 10% pay raise to all its employees
Fox News—FCC investigating Google's street view service
CNN.com—Worker who claims she was wrongly fired for complaining about her boss on Facebook is being backed by National Labor Relations Board
CBS News—Wendy's introducing new "natural" fries
MSNBC—RIM says its smaller iPad competitor will be cheaper than Apple's tablet


11.11.10
CNN.com—Pilots' unions advise their members not to submit to the new body scanning machines installed in many airports
ABCnews.com—Shortage of anesthetic typically used in executions leads Oklahoma to consider using drug usually used to put down animals
USA Today—Latest Call of Duty title makes $360 million in first-day sales
CBS News—ACLU wants Bush criminally investigated for admitting in his memoirs that he authorized the use of waterboarding
MSNBC—Over the counter medicines will no longer be covered by flexible medical spending accounts
BBC News—Costs rising for the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope


11.12.10
MSNBC—Bush plagiarized memoirs by subordinates for passages in his own memoir
CNN.com—After Amazon bans sales of guide for pedophiles, PETA urges the online retailer to remove titles on dogfighting and cockfighting
Fox News—37 year old woman arrested after sending nude photos of herself to one of her son's high school classmates
CBS News—Microbe responsible for the plague appears to have originated in China 2600 years ago
USA Today—Anheuser-Busch sues MLB for reneging on sponsorship deal
BBC News—Apple's Ping social networking music site gets Twitter integration


11.15.10
ABCnews.com—More adult children being asked to co-sign loans for parents
MSNBC—Saudi Arabia briefly blocks Facebook
CNN.com—Blackouts at New Meadowlands temporarily halts Cowboys-Giants game
Fox News—Driver with five drunk driving convictions serving sentence for vehicular manslaughter sues the parents of his victim
CBS News—Sheriff fires captain who beat him in primary election and who will assume his job next month
USA Today—Phone companies phasing out printed white pages


11.16.10
MSNBC—Netflix not allowed on Android platform because Hollywood considers it too insecure
CNN.com—Facebook unveils new messaging system that unifies email, IM, text messages, and Facebook chats and posts
CBS News—Wall Street Journal that Beatles catalogue will be available on iTunes tomorrow
USA Today—Redskins sign McNabb to a five year contract
Fox News—Golfer hit by a ball from his friend sues because the friend did not yell "Fore!"
ABCnews.com—Woman with leukemia dies after bone marrow donors refuse to go through with the surgery


11.17.10
USA Today—Microsoft sells 1 million Kinect units the first 10 days of release
MSNBC—Emergency Broadcast System coming to mobile phones
Fox News—Woman arrested after her four year old son calls 911 because she had left him alone in the house for hours
ABCnews.com—Japanese probe brings asteroid dust back to Earth
CBS News—Google Voice app finally approved for iPhone
CNN.com—Prince William gets engaged


11.18.10
Fox News—Scientists claim that they have created and captured antimatter
CBS News—Palin says in interview that she could beat Obama in 2012
CNN.com—Professor installing camera in the back of his head for a year
USA Today—FDA bans sale of highly caffeinated alcoholic drinks
MSNBC—Palin's 16 year old daughter calls critic of her mom's new tv show a "faggot" on Facebook
BBC News—Gran Turismo 5 to be released next week


11.19.10
USA Today—TSA faces scrutiny over enhanced screening procedures, including body scans and pat-downs
CBS News—Musician Patti Smith wins National Book Award
CNN.com—NYPD using eye scanners to track prisoners and suspects
Fox News—Sweden issues arrest warrant for founder of WikiLeaks
MSNBC—Chinese woman arrested and sent to a labor camp for a year for one of her tweets
ABCnews.com—New rifle with programmable shells being tested in combat in Afghanistan


11.22.10
CNN.com—Pope says that condoms may be permitted in certain situations
ABCnews.com—Some firms won't hire new workers who are smokers
Fox News—Some Nintendo video games will play themselves for you after multiple failed attempts
USA Today—Latest Harry Potter movie makes $125 million its opening weekend
MSNBC—Vaccination rates continue to drop
BBC News—USAF warns troops that posting on Facebook or Twitter could inadvertently reveal their location to enemies


11.23.10
CNN.com—Facebook to be granted a trademark for the word "face"
USA Today—FAA issues first commercial reentry license to SpaceX
CBS News—First Apple computer sells at auction for over $200,000
BBC News—New blood test can accurately estimate age of donor
MSNBC—Genetically engineered trees with bio-LEDs in their leaves could replace streetlights
ABCnews.com—Darvocet being pulled from US market for heart risks


11.29.10
USA Today—Tom DeLay convicted of money laundering
CNN.com—19 year old Somali-American tries to detonate bomb at Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon
CBS News—EU moves ahead with $113 billion in bailout funds for Ireland
ABCnews.com—Willie Nelson busted for possession of marijuana
MSNBC—Apple expanding the size of its Cupertino campus
BBC News—Europe to ban use of BPA in baby bottles starting next year


11.30.10
CBS News—Obama proposes a freeze in pay for all federal workers
CNN.com—Cache of hundreds of lost Picasso's come to light in France
MSNBC—Department of Transportation wants to put technology in cars that would make cell phones unusable in moving vehicles
USA Today—Drunken cruise ship passenger releases ship's anchor
Fox News—Director of Empire Strikes Back dies at 87
ABCnews.com—Scientists say they have reversed aging in mice

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