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Wednesday linkfest

• Author William Gibson finds one of his books in a sad place. Happens to everyone.
• Secrets of the writing of the Daily Show. Amusing, but there are some interesting nuggets on process in there. Also note the size of the staff.
• The Nature journal has a special issue on innovation. Haven’t read these yet, but they look deliciously non-fluffy.
• The sketch that gave birth to twitter. Some archival photos from one of the inventors of twitter. Btw: I love legal pads.
• The Story of the Office 2007 Ribbon UI. Lots of backstory, photos, prototypes, etc. straight from Jensen Harris, one of the main people on the project.
• A simple plan for fixing the ridiculous H1B Visa policy in the USA. I’d like to understand a) how it got so messed up to begin with, and b) what possible arguments there are to not changing the policy in this direction.