News: Cisco sells Linksys, home networking unit to Belkin

Hmmm. Don't have confidence in the Belkin brand. This will be interesting.

News: TSA terminates contract with maker of body scanners

Good. Too late...but good.

Comic: Dilbert 1/16/13

Change. Fear it.

USDCNY: Twitter pics cannot be used by commercial entities

Even if a picture is posted on Twitter (and possibly re-tweeted by others), it CANNOT be used for commercial means. A ruling on technology use I can FINALLY agree with.

News: X-Men comic to reboot with all-female team members

Neat!

News: Official White House response to Death Star petition...

...is awesome.

Obit: Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist (Wired)

Sad: Computer activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide

He was indicted for mass-downloading documents from JSTOR, a massive online journal of academic papers. He fought against the system of hiding intellectual knowledge behind a paywall, despite the research being paid for with public monies.

He also happens to have created the RSS 1.0 specification and was an early co-owner of Reddit, a popular online community news site. He truly stood for letting the world be smarter than it was...and left it dumber without his presence in it.

Sports: 0 of 37 eligible voted into MLB Hall of Fame for 2013

With the wave of steroid-marred candidates for the Hall of Fame getting their first chance to be voted in, the voters decided to send a message. No one was voted into the Hall of Fame for 2013.

News: UN names 2013 International Year of Quinoa

Interesting, seeing as I just discovered the stuff.

Funny: Dad hires 'in-game assassins' to kill son's character

Trying to get him to quit the game and get a job. Hilarious.

How-to: Perfect scrambled egg breakfast (by Gordon Ramsey)

Love Gordon Ramsey. Not sure why.

There is also the double-boiler method, which I'll have to try this weekend. http://lifehacker.com/5973143/make-perfect-light-and-fluffy-scrambled-eggs-with-a-double-boiler

Study: Why girls do better in school than boys

News: Android no longer free (as in speech)

Branches of the previously free-to-modify code have already been released. This could be a good thing for Ubuntu Mobile OS.

News: Ubuntu (Linux OS) come to smartphones!

My favorite Linux distrobution has finally come to phones! Think of it like a better Android. One that doesn't sit there for 30 seconds before finally connecting the call.