Friday Links: What we've been checking out this week

Howdy. Time for another round of Friday links. Here's what we enjoyed this week: *We found that Carnegie Mellon University surpassed a lofty goal: the digitization of over 1,500,000 books. *Get ready for this winter's galactic light show. *If you've started shopping for the holidays, check out The New York Times holiday gift guide. *Dylan wrote earlier this week about manufacturing jobs in America. The second part in the News Hour's series details America's response to globalization with hope. It's worth a watch. *Google announced their plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars going green in 2008. *The Broadway strike is over. What have you been reading?