Sounds like nifty book. Here's the list of essays (from JS's site): Ken Arnold - Style Is Substance Leon Bambrick - Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search Michael Bean - The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers Rory Blyth - Excel as a Database Adam Bosworth - ICSOC04 Talk danah boyd - Autistic Social Software Raymond Chen - Why Not Just Block the Apps That Rely on Undocumented Behavior? Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi - Kicking the Llama Cory Doctorow - Save Canada's Internet from WIPO ea_spouse - EA: The Human Story Bruce Eckel - Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing Paul Ford - Processing Processing Paul Graham - Great Hackers John Gruber - The Location Field is the New Command Line Gregor Hohpe - Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit Ron Jeffries - Passion Eric Johnson - C++ -- The Forgotten Trojan Horse Eric Lippert - How Many Microsoft Employees Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? Michael "Rands" Lopp - What to do when you're screwed Larry Osterman - Larry's Rules of Software Engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Doesn't Mary Poppendieck - Team Compensation Rick Schaut - Mac Word 6.0 Clay Shirky - A Group is its Own Worst Enemy Clay Shirky - Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software Eric Sink - Closing the Gap Eric Sink - Hazards of Hiring Aaron Swartz - PowerPoint Remix why the lucky stiff - A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)