- If you were educated in the US, whether serial commas look right to you depends on whether you read more books or newspapers. #
- Ben Scofield takes on competency porn and asks when is it better not to try to be your best in the latest PragPub. http://cot.ag/9AXYkc #
- Chicago Manual of Style: use the serial comma. AP Stylebook: don't. So you'll see serial commas more often in books than in news media. #
- How PragPub vets authors: we take all comers and beat them into shape.
# - How PragPub vets authors, take 2: for some reason, only great writers with something to say pitch articles to us. 8-] #
- PragPub comes down on the side of serial commas. I can defend the policy in various ways, but bottom line, it's what looks right to me. #
- @node_knockout I'm not really node-savvy enough to be a judge. in reply to node_knockout #
- My friend Roger Dorband created a beautiful book with Ursula LeGuin. http://cot.ag/aga5EG or http://bit.ly/csTcA3 #
- Our use of the serial comma in PragPub is supported by many authorities, so don’t send us an erratum. Start an argument with us instead. #
- Nice article — I mean, blog post: You're Cuking It Wrong (http://elabs.se/b/15) #
- Using the serial comma can create ambiguity. Not using the serial comma can create ambiguity. The implications of this are ambiguous. #
- Wouldn't republish a blog post unless it was enhanced significantly. But if you come up with an idea that's not quite right for the blog… #
- Drat. Sorry to everyone who got that Twitter IQ test DM. Note to self: be more careful what you click on. #
- I'm getting private-beta'd on a new video technology today. I'll tweet about it when I can. #
- A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure… #
- …for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. —Tristan Tzara #
- The proliferation of remedies is evidence of their inefficacy, as Ralph Waldo Emerson might have said if he’d served on an ANSI committee. #
- Correction to quiz in latest issue of PragPub: cryptogram, not anagram. Obviously. #
- "I want a Surreal Software Manifesto, a Dada Developer Manifesto." -John Shade in PragPub http://cot.ag/9A9tnG #
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