Link Collection

Study found that staring at women's breasts is good for men's health and increases their life expectancy--10 minutes of staring is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out! The improved blood circulation and increased heart rate can cut the risk of stroke and heart attack in half and extend a man's life 4 to 5 years:
http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfeature/stare-boobs-longer-life-study-86131320.html

US life expectancy hit a record high of 77.9 years in the latest figures released:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/12/us-life-expectancy-at-record-high.html

AT&T supports the spirit, but not the rules, of net neutrality:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-supports-spirit-not-strict-rules-net-neutrality/2009-12-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Contrary to previous predictions of a big sales drop due to the economy, Gartner says that worldwide cell phone sales only declined 0.7% this year and a 9% increase is predicted for next year.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/gartner-says-worldwide-mobile-device-sales-pace-flat-growth-2009?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

McDonald's will offer free WiFi at most of its US locations starting in January:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjruBwVWDyBHMqCPLR79Nb_nesOAD9CK23OG0

AT&T is concerned about how the Fake Steve Jobs blog wants iPhone users to overwhelm AT&T's network on Friday:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/12/15/fake-steve-declares-operation-chokehold-on-att/?mod=yahoo_hs

This anti-AT&T commentary discusses AT&T's concern over the Friday plan and points out that AT&T made $10 billion in profit on $40 billion in revenue so far this year, so AT&T could afford to spend more money to upgrade its network:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/customers-att-choke-517?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-12-16

Article about how Enterprise IT departments will be forced to move from XP to Windows 7 in the next few years:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/enterprises-need-start-getting-rid-xp-now-189?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-12-16

Woman was arrested after her repeated demands of a threesome with a married couple:
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/12/13/news/doc4b245212aa9a6214520484.txt

Olympic weightlifter in Chile gave birth to a baby boy while she was training in a gym in Brazil. She did not know she was pregnant and won a won a weightlifting competition last week!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g3dNGua5_gRnWyaXz3EhT5N9IKlQ

For Lori--this apparently will be Simon Cowell's last season on American Idol, as he is getting a huge deal to bring his X factor show to the US. This is similar to how Simon's X factor show replaced British Idol:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/entertainment_news/article6958242.ece