Each week I like to take some time and simply post links to some of the things that interested me the past week. Here are this week’s offerings. Enjoy.

Watch Aradhna videos at YouTube.

Read the PopMatters piece wondering about year-end music lists.

Browse the Silent Ballet’s lists of the top 50 instrumental releases of 2006.

Browse Mashable’s list of the best social networking sites in various areas including photo-hosting and music.

Browse Boomkat’s list of the top 100 releases of 2006. They also offer year-end lists by people like Max Richter, Paavoharju, Julien Neto, Phelan Sheppard and Greg Haines.

Browse the Onion AV Club’s list of least-essential albums of 2006.

You can read, watch or listen to John Piper’s final sermon of the 9-year series through the book of Romans.

Follow Justin Taylor’s link to a series of lectures by Alister McGrath on how to use literature as an apologetic for the faith.

Read the Books and Culture article wondering how Christians should address God.

Read the Daily Mail’s report that hundreds of people have volunteered to hang Saddam.

Read the FrontPage piece that wonders why much “diversity training” seems to have the goal of making many ashamed to be white.

Read the Washington Times piece that notes: “Even the Ivy League schools seem to have noticed: Their students are not only arriving biblically illiterate but leaving pretty much the same way.”

Read about memorial arrangements for James Brown.

Read about the passing of former president Gerald Ford.

Read Nancy Pearcey’s piece about Rosie O’Donnell’s campaign to impose her homosexual values on the entire culture.

Read the Pearcey’s wondering whether homosexual adoption is a “benign reality.”

Read Nancy Pearcey’s piece offering insight into why our judges actually make law.

Read about possible wrongdoing by Steve Jobs of Apple.

Read about the possible connection between technology and increased lying.

Browse eMusic’s list of the best of 2006.

Read my review of Alexander Strauch’s The Hospitality Commands for 9Marks Ministries.

Read about Saddam’s execution.

Read about D. James Kennedy’s recent heart attack.

Read the Pearcey blog post which uses Steve Turner’s new book as a base to argue that, among other things: “”American ‘Christian’ TV is a huge enemy of [Christian] worldview thinking, and possibly a huge enemy of Christianity.”

Browse Christianity Today’s list of the “Best New Artists” in music.

Browse the Denver Post’s list of anticipated albums for 2007.

Read as the BBC revisits their predictions for 2006 about rising stars.

Read the New York Times‘ profile of Daniel Levitin, author of the book I just ordered and can’t wait to read This Is Your Brain on Music, a layman’s guide to the neuroscience of music.

Read Joe Carter’s thoughts on the faith of our founding fathers.

Wondering if you should buy that new book or not? (ht: JT).

Read the Reuters report that the U.S. would have executed Saddam differently.

Read about video of the Saddam execution leading to several arrests.

Pray for Al Mohler who is recovering from recent abdominal surgery.

Read the report that Bono wants to take the music of U2 “to the next level.”

Read USA Today’s review of six different services to help you discover new music.

Read Matthew Hall’s piece “Write Well and Blog Less” in which he laments: “as I have persisted in blogging and witnessed the the rapid ascendancy and influence of blogs, I’ve also been frustrated by the apparent lack of thought that goes in to writing well. Good prose is a scarce commodity within the blogosphere.”