I found this to be entertaining and educational. I don’t know a lot of what the guy’s talking about but it did give a nice view of programming languages…in a funny way.
http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html
And the same author did this “five questions” I think for interviewing programmers over the phone…
http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/five-essential-phone-screen-questions.html
which also gave me some insight into programmers and the job market.