These are my links for December 29th through January 5th:

Pure Mac

Software for Macintosh

Lessons Learned: U.S. States CSV / SQL

CSV/mySQL files of states for future reference.

freesound :: home page

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

After the Software Wars by Keith Curtis (Book) in Computers & Internet

Given the technology that's already available, we should have cars that drive us around, in absolute safety, while we lounge in the back and sip champagne. This book, written by an 11-year Microsoft veteran, explains how we can build better software and all get our own high-tech chauffeur.

The best tech lists of 2008 | InfoWorld | News | 2008-12-29 | By JR Raphael, PC World, PC World

Year-in-review lists are all the rage right now. Everyone's counting down the top this-or-that of 2008, and amid the noise, there's some pretty interesting content out there. InfoWorld dug through dozens of tech-related "top of 2008" lists to find the cream of the crop.