These are a few sites I thought were interesting from November 30th through December 9th:

• Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – the Program for the Future conference brought together more than 100 people to talk about collaborative computing and augmenting human intellect through computers.
• Gallery: 40 Years of Mighty Mice – Doug Engelbart#039;s demo in 1968 was the first public debut of the computer mouse. Since then, more than 1 billion of them have been made.
• Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos – Douglas Engebart#039;s famous demo in 1968 was the debut of the mouse, WYSIWYG editing, computer-based outlining, collaborative editing, and hyperlinks. It launched the idea of personal computing.
• Peter Shankman’s HARO – Help a Reporter Out (TM) – Priya Ganapti in our office says she used this yesterday for a story and got 80 sources in about 12 hours. (!)
• Taekwondo in the Paralympics? > Around Town > Stories > Briargate > YourHub.com – My cousin, Benjamin Schwenk, does Taekwondo with a prosthetic leg and wants to compete in the 2012 Paralympics
• The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide – inspiring advice
• On His 100th Birthday, the Anthropologist Lévi-Strauss Captivates Paris – NYTimes.com – Happy birthday to Claude Lévi-Strauss.