Daily Links

• Either this confirms that the US Government is hiding the fact that UFOs exist, or Bush is just looking for another way to waste US tax payers money. Source (Funnbee)
• Their strike isn't over, but some Hollywood writers put down their picket signs last night at the request of Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor performed in A.R. Gurney's play "Love Letters" with James Earl Jones at the Paramount Pictures studio in Hollywood to benefit World AIDS Day. Source (WBIR)
• Jay Leno received criticism after most of his non-striking staff was laid off and given shitty ass holiday bonuses. Jay and NBC are apparently on damage control. Jay has agreed to pay 80 laid off workers for at least the next week out of his own pocket. It could be extended if the strike goes beyond that. Source (D-Listed)
• The state Attorney General's office (Oregon) this week filed an appeal in U.S. District Court in Oregon calling for an immediate investigation of the evidence presented by the RIAA when it subpoenaed the identities of 17 students at the University of Oregon who allegedly infringed music copyrights. Source (PC World)
• Japan's latest invention: The dental training robot that can 'feel pain'. Source (Daily Mail)
• I hate to use the “C” word, but there is no other way to say it. There is a national conspiracy to prevent renewable energy from becoming the primary energy source in the United States. Source (Op Ed News)
• File this under "straight out of left field" -- Activision, the publishing powerhouse behind the Call of Duty and Tony Hawk series; and Vivendi Games, owner of Blizzard Entertainment, which you probably don't need us to tell you is behind the Warcraft and Starcraft series, are coming together to form "the world's most profitable games business," cleverly named Activision Blizzard. Source (Joystiq)
• There has been no shortage of books chronicling the dystopia that is the Bush Administration. And in this job, I’ve read quite a few of them. None of them have made as powerful an impact as Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Source (Crooks and Liars)
• A partially mummified hadrosaur discovered by a teenager in the US may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers say. Source (ABC News)

Finally, here is the newest episode of The Guild, a quirky online series, starring Felicia Day. If you like this one, check out the other episodes on their YouTube Channel.