Recent must-reads

Most of you will already have read these, but this is really the stuff of legends.

• Cory Doctorow - "uber-geek", sci-fi author and EFF activist - goes to Microsoft and tells them why DRM is bad.
  


• Joel Spolsky - New York-based programmer, Software Design/Usability Guru - writes with immense insight and clarity about how Microsoft lost the "API war" - a seminal essay doing the weblog rounds these days.
  

This stuff is good, man.