Douglas Crockford's The Department of Style

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John McCain says he's about change, too, and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out George Bush." Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. "We're rea

Who is qualified to be president? If you think of the job as being the executive of the world's largest enterprise, then you would not want a senator. The biggest thing a senator manages is a state reelection campaign. Instead you would want

Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry

In 1980 I was working at Basic/Four Corporation. Someone I was working with had seen a game at a conference in which a player is chased around a field of electrified fences by deadly vampire bats. From that description I wrote a bats game in

I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.

In the early days of programming languages, before there were standardized character sets, each programming language would define its own character set. Some languages had arrows instead of = for assignment, which really makes much more sens

I was in Las Vegas recently. Bruce Vilanch was on permanent display at the east skybridge entrance of New York New York. Spooky.

Lucy had a sleep test a couple of weeks ago and they found that she has what they call moderate sleep apnea. She is supposed to go back Monday night to find out if, and at what level, a CPAP machine might help. She is concerned abo