"Indian minister for Communications & Information Technology Kapil Sibal met officials from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Yahoo on Monday, 5 December 2011, and told them to screen what goes on the sites. He basically asked the websites to actively screen content. How do you screen such massive amount of data? Well, the IT minister has the perfect recipe: 'We'll use humans to screen content and not technology,' said the IT minister. Meanwhile, he got it back from the social media."
Loss of integrity?"In a post to the Nmap Hackers list Nmap author Fyodor accuses Download.com of wrapping a trojan installer (as detected by various AV applications when submitted to VirusTotal) around software including Nmap and VLC Media Player. The C|Net installer bundles a toolbar, changes browser settings, and, potentially, performs other shenanigans — all under the logo of the application the user thought they might have been downloading. Apparently, this isn't the first time they have done this, either."
"Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion of the SOPA initiative and does not support it. Moreover, the company believes that the SOPA initiative might actually be counter-productive for the public interest, and decided to discontinue its membership in the BSA as of January 1, 2012.'"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ElE2yXjO9Mhttp://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244501/business_software_alliance_withdraws_support_for_stop_online_piracy_act.html
TIL A war game was conducted in 2002 which resulted in a rapid defeat of the US Military by use of guerrilla tactics, and was then scripted to ensure a US victory.
The pace of deforestation in the Amazon region has fallen to its lowest level since authorities began monitoring the world's largest tropical rainforest
Just a little Eskimo'
TIL the first webcam was created to watch a pot of coffee. 
Over 25,000 teddy bears were tossed to the ice during a hockey game in Canada during Calgary Hitmen's annual Teddy Bear Toss. The stuffed animals, tossed immediately after Calgary's first goal, go to children at local hospitals. Watch this video to see quite the amazing sight.
World Series, 1912. No baseball caps yet...
What Teddy Bears Really Do For You
Fact: If the earth was 10 ft closer to the sun we would all burn up…