Walt Mossberg, tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviews Jason Fried, founder of 37signals. It's a pretty decent talk spanning 20 minutes about why big software sucks.

The LAist interviews compelling author, Mark Z. Danielewski.

Just listened to this interview with Robbie Robertson on KUOW's "The Conversation" today. If you're at all a fan of classic rock, specifically Bob Dylan and "The Band," you'll love this show. Robbie Robertson is a natural storyteller and much of the process of becoming a breakthrough artist in the 60s and 70s is intriguing.

Quoted: KUOW: Seattle's NPR News and Information Station

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This is a hilarious job interview parody by Michael Cera.

Quoted: Michael Cera's video resume. Made for McSweeney's Presents: The World, Explained (a benefit for 826LA). Directed by Nicholas Jasenovec.A parody of Aleksey V...

Quoted: In an interview with SPIEGEL, prominent Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia's turbulent history, Putin's version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.

I am really excited to have Bill Moyers back on television. He's producing extremely high-quality and thoughtful material.

This interview with Jon Stewart is just more good stuff.

An interview with Professor Gerald Martin, the "official" biographer for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the only biographer who has had regular access to the author.

Quoted: He has been writing Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s biography for 16 years — it’s slated to be published end of this year — and is the only one with whom the author, just turned 80, collaborated.

A great article on discovering the codes which provide marketing success.

Quoted: The reptilian always wins. I don't care what you're going to tell me intellectually. I don't care. Give me the reptilian. Why? Because the reptilian always wins.