Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.
Looks like "Dump GoDaddy Day" totally worked. The website hosting company now straight-up denounces SOPA.
Steve Jobs is totally getting a Grammy.
Meanwhile, MySpace is "a cesspool no on wants to visit," says your first friend, Tom.
On Wednesday, Verizon Wireless customers had to deal with yet another data outage. Like previous technical glitches, the outage was resolved within a day's time and Verizon tweeted an obligatory line about things being back to normal.
NORAD says its Santa-tracking operation broke its own records for phone calls, emails and Facebook and Twitter followers on Christmas Eve.
While politicians routinely cite video games as a contributing cause for everything from childhood obesity and lower test scores to youth violence, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) recently labeled a video game museum as something else — a waste of taxpayer funds.
Speaking of a waste of money, a man in China spent $16,000 for a virtual sword on a game that has not even been released yet.
An Israeli law center is threatening to sue Twitter unless the social network cuts off access to groups, including Hezbollah, that are considered terrorist organizations by the United States.
Meanwhile, Fox Latin America apologized for a poll on whether Jews killed Jesus Christ that one of its staffers put on a Facebook page promoting the National Geographic Channel's Christmas special.
In closing: "Blade Runner" sketch book! "Blade Runner" sketch book!
— compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.
