Three random links for today.

The first is Neal Stephenson on the origins of the command line, and how Microsoft is actually a good thing. It was written pre-Apple-on-Intel, but it’s still an excellent read. He later remarked that with the advent of OS X, he switched and never looked back.

The second I found via Digg, and it discusses 8 things you can do to keep a geek happy at his place of employment. The author (rightly) doesn’t limit the view to computer geeks, though there is a bit of computer-geek focus in the article.

Finally, there’s an interview in Popular Science with Will Wright, on a game called Spore. Spore is his follow-up from Sim City, Sim Ant and The Sims, and attempts to encompass multiple layers of game play – from cellular level to space-faring race. Hopefully, it’ll be as good as the videos show.