Daily Links

• Google’s “Blogger in Draft” program that tests functionality for Google’s popular Blogger blogging platform has rolled out OpenID support for comments. Source (Tech Crunch)
• Once Intel chips landed inside Macs and Boot Camp made its debut, it got a lot harder to blame rumor mongers for making a certain leap: Mac OS X could one day run Windows apps sans-Windows. Source (Ars Technica)
• The Cambrian period began a little over 500 million years ago. Before the Cambrian period, life on earth consisted of mostly single-celled organisms and bacteria. Afterwards the evolutionary ancestors of all the major groups of living things today were hanging around the planet. So what caused this evolutionary leap? According to one scientist, poop. Source (Environmental Graffiti)
• Maybe you've heard rumors about an explosive newspaper expose on a major political figure that would rock the political world just as the presidential voting is about to begin. Source (LA Times)
• Google's interest in the 700MHz spectrum auction has not been a secret. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said back in August that the company would "probably" bid in the auction, and Google announced several weeks ago that it was preparing all the necessary materials to make a bid. Now, at last, Google is making it officially official. Source (Ars Technica)

Finally, here's a video Animaniacs, the nations of the world.

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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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