1. A terrific profile of Melinda Gates from CNNMoney.com/Fortune. My favorite snarky moment:
She made valedictorian and got into Notre Dame. But Notre Dame did not get her. When she and her dad visited, she recalls, officials at the university told them that “computers are a fad” and that they were shrinking the computer science department. “I was crushed,” Melinda says. Duke, which was expanding in computer science, got her instead.
2. Guns don’t kill people. People don’t kill people. Dogs with guns kill people.