Daily Links

• RIAA is forcing a charity organization to pay fees so children can sing Christmas Carols. Source (Torrent Freak)
  
• Hollywood superstar Will Smith has revealed he has his eye on the greatest role of his life – to become President of the United States. Source (Daily Mail)
• Less than three months after it began, the 2007-08 television season is basically over -- and nobody won. Source (Variety)
• Fantasy movie The Golden Compass has shot straight to the top of the U.S. box-office chart, ending Enchanted's fairytale two-week stay at number one over the weekend. Source (Star Pulse)
• Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers. Source (News Target)
• The cast of The Golden Compass - which stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig - have received death threats from religious zealots. Source (Now Magazine)

Finally, here is a video of an Indian song that they did a la Thriller. The ridiculous part of this video is someone added subtitles, not of the English translation but of what it sounds like the singer is saying phonetically. The video alone is hilarious, but the subtitles just add on to the comedy.

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Daily Links

• Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Source (Mark Sanborn)
  
• Catholics getting their panties in a twist over "anti-religious messages" in the new Philip Pullman movie The Golden Compass. Source (BBC)
• Google investing in solar power to fuel their massive server farm. Source (Gizmodo)
• Tolkien's great-grandson arrested in the UK for possession of £3,000 worth of marijuana. Source (The Sun)
• 9 Legendary Cartoon Voices (and where else you may have heard them). Source (Mental Floss)
• British music industry major EMI wants to cut its funding to the industry's trade bodies, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday, which could deal a blow to the fight against music piracy. Source (Yahoo News)
• In the November 15 episode of NBC's "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, in their roles as Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon, sang the praises of Verizon Wireless before Fey looked right into the camera and asked, "Can we have our money now?" At least in this case, art did indeed imitate life. Verizon said it handed over an integration fee to NBC, in addition to some marketing support, for the mini-commercial within one of the network's hottest shows. Source (Yahoo News)
• How to improve your concentration. Source (Life Hack)
  
• A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction. It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Source (Sky News)

Finally, here's an awesome video that was on Gizmodo today. It's a commercial from Norway promoting growth in the Engineering field, and it uses some sweet special effects, too bad trains don't normally do this, it would make riding on them a lot more entertaining.

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