Link dump for the week of November 30th – December 6th, 2009.

• Buy a new computer on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?  Check out this article about a few great cross-platform apps. I use the majority of these everyday. I also highly recommend the extension Adblock Plus for Firefox.
• Google announced and rolled out Google Public DNS this week. PC Mag takes a closer look at it. I use OpenDNS currently but I’ll probably give Google’s DNS a try.
• Youtube launched Feather, an opt-in beta for a slimmer version of its player. It’s worth checking out if you’re surfing on an older machine or have a slow connection. There’s a lite version of Facebook as well.

Link dump for the week of November 23-29th, 2009.

• The Onion A.V. Club selects the best comics of the ’00s as well as the best books of the ’00s. There are more picks in their the best of the decade section.
• Last week, Google unveiled its operating system Chrome OS. It won’t be ready for users until sometime next year but the code is open source and available to those who want to take a peak.
• While you’re peaking, check out Flowing Data. This site has mad graphs, son. Who doesn’t like info-graphics? Occasionally, they can even be funny.

Link dump for the week of November 16-22nd, 2009.

• A while ago, a friend recommended a BBC documentary called The Atheism Tapes. It’s a series of interviews with several philosophers and scientists. The first interview is with the philosopher Colin McGinn. The second interview is with the physicist Steven Weinberg. The third is with the playwright Arthur Miller. The fourth is with the biologist Richard Dawkins. The fifth is with the theologian Denys Turner. The final interview is with the philosopher Daniel Dennett.
• In a similar vein, check out the first three episodes of The Power of Myth, an interview by Bill Moyers with the comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.  The first part is The Hero’s Adventure. The second part is The Message of Myth. The third is The First Storytellers.