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The creator of Calvin and Hobbes answers some great questions.

Sam Harris (the atheist, not the original Star Search Winner) vs. Rick Warren, a Christian pastor.

William Gibson’s rejected script for Alien 3.

I was gobsmacked when I first heard that Oprah had actually chosen Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”:http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0307387895/ for her book club. My initial reaction was more a product of my assumption about the demographic of her readership than anything else, although I do remember mumbling to myself _Did she actually read the damn thing_?
I consider [...]

My boss does his schpeal in part III.

From an “interview”:http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/goetz_qa.html with Brian Goetz of Sun:
Q. So how can developers write Java code that performs well?
A. The answer may seem counterintuitive. Often, the way to write fast code in Java applications is to write dumb code — code that is straightforward, clean, and follows the most obvious object-oriented principles. This has to do [...]

I’d put sliced bread in that same category as well.

It’s difficult.Er. Thanks Bjarne!

John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity. [via Presentation Zen].

Barry Schwartz at a Google Tech Talk discussing the “paradox of choice”:http://video.google.com/.videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200. There are “more techtalks available”:http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks if you are so inclined [via "webword":http://www.webword.com].

“Cat Stevens’ MySpace Page”:http://www.myspace.com/yusufislam. Despite the unpleasantness and other controversy associated with his conversion to Islam, I will forever see him as the folk singer who wrote the poignant _Father and Son_, which to this day makes me misty-eyed everytime I hear it. [via internal mefi]

Quicktime video of speakers at TED (Technology,Entertainment, Design). A varied list.

Keith Olberman tells it like it is. Absofsckinglutely hitting the nail on the motherfscking head.

Freakin’ awesome clips that will bring you back if you were a Bulls fan during the Golden Years [via Derek at strayneuron].

You either love him, hate him or meh. If nothing else, I found out he married that girl with whom he traveled from S.F. to N.Y. Good for them.

Separated at birth by about sixty years. Fascinated, disgusted and strangely turned on.

I hope he means just getting ice cream, ‘cuz last time I looked, she was only sixteen.

The one poet since my college days that has constantly challenged me every time I read his work.

A nice followup from the CSM on “Jill Carroll”:http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/index.html. I have nothing but respect and admiration for reporters who willingly go into harm’s way (and by all accounts, Iraq will probably go down as one of the most dangerous wars for reporters in a generation) and try to bring home unfettered, unfiltered information to [...]

Experience designer for Windows Vista.