My Favorite unadvertised benefit of working for Microsoft is access to the various speakers that come through campus and give talks to MSR. It is great to here that many of them have made it to the public on ResearchChannel. I’ve bookmarked on del.icio.us a number of talks I’ve seen and enjoyed and a couple that I haven’t seen and want to. Special notice to the two MSPAC ones, David Brin, Mandelbrot, Bruce Campbell, Malcolm Gadwell and Cory Doctorow.