• What comes first in business: employees or customers? This post at Joel on Software gives an answer (and the comments are worth reading too).
• Put the f word on your business card and use a coffin for your desk — these and other tips in How to differentiate your company.
• 12 books that changed the world.
• And finally, David Foster Wallace’s essay on the usage wars in the English language.

“In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs’ attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives’ attitudes about contemporary culture:[4] We combine a missionary zeal and a near-neural faith in our beliefs’ importance with a curmudgeonly hell-in-a-handbasket despair at the way English is routinely manhandled and corrupted by supposedly educated people. The Evil is all around us: boners and clunkers and solecistic howlers and bursts of voguish linguistic methane that make any SNOOT’s cheek twitch and forehead darken. A fellow SNOOT I know likes to say that listening to most people’s English feels like watching somebody use a Stradivarius to pound nails. We[5] are the Few, the Proud, the Appalled at Everyone Else.”

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