Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word processing population. Like killing a fly with a cruise missile...

A free, lean word processor for Mac OS X by James Hoover.

James Hoover's essay on the thinking that went in to the creation of Bean, notably as a successor for WriteNow, as a lean, mean, writing machine.

An article from February 2001 by Marten van de Kraats, in which he details the need for a lean word processor on the newly born Mac OS X. Marten was a huge fan of WriteNow (as was I). This served as James Hoover's inspiration for Bean.

Jos Buivenga has some outstanding fonts, and while he should be charging for them, he offers them as donationware instead. I love Fertigo!