Author: Will Cox

Your capital goes home at night and looks for another job because it is no fun to be a cog in the machine.

My Summer project, to finish all of the books I’ve started, is proceeding apace — a good thing now that it’s Fall — and I’ve just ...

Speaking of lessons to learn, sometimes those lessons don’t trickle down to the ignorant folks talking to the customers. And thus we get this cartoon from...

How is it that Matt McNamara, the teenage twerp son in Nip/Tuck, lives in Miami, and yet somehow avoids getting a tan?

In the wake of the response to the past two natural disasters, I’ve heard a lot about “lessons learned.” I would like to point out that the si...

Why do people reflexively suggest traffic lights or curve straightening for traffic problems? Why don’t they define the problem well before proposing solu...

I read The Quiltmaker’s Gift to the girls last night. It’s a good story, and beautifully illustrated. There’s an accompanying website to illus...

“Our new logo is one of the most articulate symbols of the new Quark, and I feel proud to have led the team that worked on it,” said Susan Friedman, senior ...

Dear WordPress Authors, in particular the author of the routines to invalidate my input. Stop multilating what I write. A blockquote element MAY be nested withi...

Is humor allowed in patent filings? Apple’s latest, for a camera integrated into a laptop casing, notes For example, although the locking mechanism was de...

In 1996, I was asked what the next big thing would be. For some reason I was thought knowledgeable about these things. I said, “Directories.”

I’m seeing some novelty in the spam hitting my journal today. They exploit flaws in web applications produced by Major Corporations to insert HTML bits in...

I’ve noticed a pattern in gasoline prices since I started driving in 1990. Prices remain steady for a while, then they go up. They remain at that higher p...

I have some statistical questions. Perhaps some freakonomicist would deign to answer them. It is often asserted that teachers and college professors are more li...

If you’re looking for a game of Texas Hold’em, or any other variation of poker, go off-line, you idiot. Poker is a game of human interaction.

Now listening to the John Roberts Confirmation Hearings on WNYC-AM. Very interesting. You could also watch the hearings on C-SPAN, but you’ll need RealPla...

The Little Sister turned three today. Over the weekend we celebrated her little life with a trip to the City on Saturday, and a long lunch al fresco with the fa...

I heard an extraordinary story on All Things Considered this evening: a timeline of the events before and after the arrival of Katrina. They ask, what went wron...

Jon Udell brings up the problem of redirecting RSS URIs again. The problem is the same as for any other URI, as is the solution. What complicates the solution i...