Patrick Roy was the heart and soul of the Montreal Canadiens throughout the '80s and '90s he made spectacular saves almost every game and gave the impression of a hockey warrior in the nets. The '86 and '93 Conn Smythe winner backstopped the Habs to their last two Stanley Cups. In October, his father Michel did his own tribute to his son, a biography entitled Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else.

Let's face it: the Internet is a sexy topic these days. You can't open the New York Times without running into a story about how online news stresses journalists out or what happens to Facebook profiles when their owners die or Twitter and the World Cup.

One of the things involved with having to be on a constant, long term regime of medications over a period of many years is not so much the misery of having to take said medications (along with the realization that you wouldn't do very well at all if you didn't have them) but making sure that you don't accidently let one slip through your fingers and end up not taking it.

When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you proceed? How do you avoid sending you and your shiny "speed of thought" tool slamming into a dead end? Dan Murray's got a routine -- and he's also got certain music and right-brained books to go along. Dan's first rule: "Don't pre-think."

As Stephen Few delivered his keynote address at the recent Tableau customer conference in Seattle, he suddenly broke his rhythm to look at someone in the audience. "Is that Howard Dresner?" he wondered, surprised. It was. Howard is the man who as a Gartner analyst in 1989 revived the term "business intelligence," and he's one of the industry's patriarchs.

So we're starting up our Hipster Travel Gift Guide for you for the second year in a row -- and this time, we're running it for 30 days. We know times are tough and we hope you can collect more than a few ideas from us for finding that just right gift for that person who seems nearly impossible to buy stuff for -- in part because they already have every thing.

The rise of Daniel Bryan as a major superstar continued last month when he delivered a spectacular match in his first pay-per-view title defence against The Miz and John Morrison in a Submissions Count Anywhere match.

What's being called "the first planet-scale group art show" began over the weekend, as climate activists in several countries gathered to create symbolic images that could be seen from space. In Spain, citizens created a maze in the form of a young girl's face who is afraid the Delta del Ebro will be destroyed by climate change. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, a thousand Girl Scouts and residents holding blue tarps formed a human "flash flood" in the dry remains of the Santa Fe River bed to show what it could look like if water still flowed there.

Sharing our creativity on the web is increasingly popular to do. But how do we get the credit we are due for our creative work? How can we identify the original source? I don't know about you, but I am eager to know everyone out in cyberspace who cares about the stuff I do.

I was in Berkeley last night to see Sam Harris talk about his new book, The Moral Landscape. Harris makes a convincing case for how science, so broadly defined that I think rationality really serves as a more appropriate phrase, can allow us to determine right from wrong, or when one of those clear positions is not available, the ethically most optimal behavior.

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