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Eugene Kim raises some interesting questions about the addressibility of content from on-line spreadsheets in a blog post: “Spreadsheets 2.0 and Transclusions”
Some of this is similar to issues Danny Ayers raised about “WikiCalc and the Semantic Web” a year ago.
Both, however, fall into a trap that is a common source of spreadsheet woe: the difference [...]

Jerry Weinberg has a wonderful post on the power of language.
Two snippets:
When someone hears that a dog is attack trained, chances are about one in three that they’ll turn to the dog and command: KILL!
As a joke.
Or just to see what the dog will do.
To protect against this idiotic human behavior, this carelessness with words, [...]