Software Links IV (and a few others)

• Not a software link, but Alex Carnevale's short piece on "In Which We Consider the Macabre Unpleasantness of Roald Dahl".  He's still one of my favorite authors.  I adored him as a kid, precisely because he treated children as real people.  But I've never read a biography of him, so this was illuminating.  Reminds me of my mother's story about how my grandmother wouldn't let her read or see The Wizard of Oz because Frank Baum was an anti-Native American a-hole.
• Richard Dawkins interviews a creationist via Thoughts From a Godless Heathen (about an hour if you watch all the parts).  Dawkins' patience is amazing.  And Wendy Wright is nuts.
• Eagan Market Fest is live and you can earn free food if you bike there.
• On to actual software links: A quick comparison of Joomla!, Drupal, and Wordpress.  I agree about the ease of Wordpress for blogging compared to the other CMS platforms.  Joomla! can be a bit of a bear to modify if you're using a third party blog.
• I saw a quote by Alan Cooper, "Software is not built with 'resources', nor is it built with 'money'. It is built by intelligent, non-fungible people."  Absolutely true, although it screws up my idea to use underground, mushroom people as our next outsourcing pool.
• I'd like to read this book on Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder (and others), it looks very interesting.  Amazon seems to bear out that it's worth reading.
• Expression Engine - an interesting CMS Erik pointed me at.
• Touch and Gesture events, also from Erik.  A working example.
• Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla! market shares in Europe.  Even there Wordpress outnumbers the others installs combined.
• Lullabot on The Art of Estimation: " I would advise breaking the project down into existing Drupal solutions. What are the content types, the views, the taxonomy requirements, the menus, the blocks, etc.? Will you require Panels or Context modules for help with blocks or layout? Knowing the tool ahead of time is a huge advantage when it comes to making estimates. When you've already used solutions like Panels, or Services, or SOLR, or Migrate, or Features to solve problems in the past, there are fewer unknowns, and you can estimate off of past experience."  They provide a Numbers spreadsheet for doing some of the Drupal breakdown.
• Have you considered SaaS before choosing your CMS tool: it is possible to choose a CMS hosted in the cloud.