WPF? WTF?

I haven't looked into anything dealing with Windows Presentation Foundation, not really being into the whole Avalon movement or XAML for that matter. But after sporting some major intellectual wood over the news of several new desktop newsreaders from some major newspapers, I may give it a shot. (Good work by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in particular.)

Luckily, the definitive book on the rather complex subject of WPF development from Sams happened to land on my desk this week, so I'm good to go.